[Jane's Defense Weekly] Ed Blanche - The U.S. has offered to help train and equip the Lebanese Army so it can extend government control over Lebanon as part of a cease-fire agreement to end the current conflict between Hizballah and Israel. Yet the Lebanese Army, which has operated primarily as an internal security force since the 1975-90 civil war, is incapable of undertaking any peacekeeping mission unless Hizballah is completely disarmed.
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