US Aims To Deliver Heavy Hardware To Lebanese Army Ahead Of Elections -- The Daily StarBEIRUT: The United States will work to deliver new military hardware to Lebanon ahead of the June parliamentary elections, a senior Pentagon official said during Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr's visit to Washington this week. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East policy Colin Kahl said, according to the US defense department website, that the weapons systems will help to bolster the LAF in its counterterrorism, border and internal security operations, and that they are expected to be delivered by June.
The US has been the primary supplier of weapons and training to the Lebanese armed forces (LAF) in recent years, providing more than $400 million in foreign military financing to Beirut. The new arms shipments are to include Cessna close-air-support aircraft with precision Hellfire missiles, unmanned Raven aerial vehicles and M60 Abrams tanks.
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My Comment: These arm shipments are just a reflection of a mini-arms race that is occurring in the region between Sunni Arabs on one side, against Iran and their Shiite Lebanese proxies in Lebanon (i.e. Hezbollah) on the other side.
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