Talk:Military operations of the 2006 Lebanon War

Date Order

Because so many things were being repeated, I put it into date order. This should make things easier to understand. --Irishpunktom\^talk 16:16, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

This is great! Could other editors please respect this format? It is somewhat related to a timeline, but more detailed.--Cerejota 16:38, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Related to 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict

Please verify that you edit doesnt belong there before editing.--Cerejota 16:38, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

POV Check

As this page inherits the bulk of its info from a page with a POV Check at the time of the move, 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, putting it up here.--Cerejota 19:57, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Equiment and forces

I would like to see a listing of the military capabiliities of IDF, Hezbollah, and Lebanese Armed Forces: Numbers of regulars and reserves, number of tanks, planes, ships, and artillery, type of automatic weapons used, type of rifles and sidearms used, type of antitank, antiaircraft, rockets, etc. In any conflict this is very important, along with training and motivation, anas well as quality of command and control.Jane's Defence Weekly and allied publications tabulate such info, so it's not all a deep dark defense secret. Edison 00:26, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

CIA Factbook https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/print/le.html says:

For Lebanon: Population: 3,874,050 (July 2006 est.). Lebanon's military expenditures are $540.6 million per year(2004) at 3.1% (2004) of GDP. Manpower fit for military service: males age 18-49: 821,762,females age 18-49: 865,770 (2005 est.) No info on size of military or equipment.

For Israel, the figures are Population: 6,352,117; Military expenditures: $9.45 billion (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 7.7% (2005 est.); Manpower fit for military service: males age 17-49: :1,255,902, females age 17-49: 1,212,394 (2005 est.) No info on size of military or equipment.

Well, I'd like to correct the airplane info. All the Phantoms have been retired from service for example. Egghead 09:43, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

No Hezbollah info. Edison 01:06, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Move

This may need to go somewhere here: On July 20, 2006, Democracy Now! reported:

At least 72 civilians died in Lebanon on Wednesday making it the deadliest day of the Israeli assault. In the village of Srifa, Israeli warplanes flattened an entire neighborhood. 15 homes were destroyed. At least 17 civilians died including several children. The local mayor described the attack as a massacre.

The southern city of Tyre has so far buried 86 Lebanese civilians that died in Israeli airstrikes into a mass grave . More than half of the victims were children, according to local hospital staff.[1] The Los Angeles Times reported: “Civil structure appears to have broken down almost completely. Ambulances haven't been able to operate. The dead are rotting in the rubble of smashed homes. Food and clean drinking water are running out.” In addition to the 500,000 already displaced Lebanese civilians, Israel warned some 300,000 Lebanese to abandon their homes. The Israel Defense Forces was preparing to call up thousands of reserve troops. Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr told the Arabic television network Al Jazeera Thursday, July 20, Lebanon would resist an Israeli attack.

Meanwhile, the bombardment of Lebanon continued. At least thirty Lebanese were killed Thursday, July 20. The Lebanese death toll stood at around 320 -- almost all civilians. Earlier that day, Israeli warplanes attacked Lebanon’s main highway to Syria. Several passenger buses were set on fire but no casualties were reported. The World Food Program said damage to roads and bridges has almost completely disrupted the food supply chain, hurting large numbers of the estimated 500,000 people displaced by the attack. The situation in the southern Lebanese village of Tyre is getting worse by the day.

Cheers, Tewfik^Talk 06:27, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

irrelevant sentence in Military resources of Israel and Lebanon?

This seems to belong somewhere else, it has nothing to do with military resources: United Nations Resolution 1559 calls for Hezbollah to be disarmed and the Lebanese Army to be deployed to southern Lebanon, which has not been implemented[96]. It is already mentioned in 2006_Israel-Lebanon_conflict but without the reference. -213.219.151.76 22:01, 24 July 2006 (UTC)