Lebanese Armed Forces (Lebanon)

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image by Eugene Ipavec, 15 May 2007

image by Eugene Ipavec, 15 May 2007

• Lebanese Armed Forces
• Army:
  • Army Flag
    • Lance Pennant
    • Republican Guard Brigade
  • Former Army Flag
  • Lebanese Legion Flag, WWI
• Navy:
  • Navy Flag
  • Former Naval Jack (c.1954-c.1980)
• Air Force:
  • Air Force Flag
  • Air Force Markings
• Military Regions:
  • Beirut Region
  • Bekaa Region
  • Mount Lebanon Region
  • North Region
  • South Region
• Other:
  • Anti-Terrorism and Counter-Intelligence Branch
  • Military Band
  • Unidentified Military Flags

• Lebanese Forces (Political Party, Lebanon)
• Lebanon

Obverse and reverse
  image by Zoltan Horvath, 25 June 2024

The flag of the Lebanese Armed Forces appears in several photos on the LAF website: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. Detail of the best view here. While you cannot see the whole thing, it looks to be 1:1 (based on the red/white diagonal seeming to be parallel to the 45 deg. line of the crossed swords).

Eugene Ipavec, 15 May 2007

Confusingly, there are at least three versions of the red/white diagonal with the Armed Forces emblem:

1:1 or ~4:5 w/ large emblem
2:3 w/ large emblem
2:3 w/ small emblem & thin black ring

One of them could be a colour.

Eugene Ipavec, 22 August 2007

The Armed Forces flag is patterned after the Lebanese flag (white field between two horizontal red bands, and a cedar in the middle), with two wheat spikes on each corner, and the words: "Honor", "Homeland" surrounding the cedar. In the center of its reverse side, the insignia of the Army which bears the motto: "Honor- Sacrifice- Loyalty", comprises a cedar surrounded by two wheat spikes and topping the insignias of the Ground forces, the Air forces, and the Navy.
Zoltan Horvath, 25 June 2024

Reading "alƙafħt" = "الڪافحت" (No vowels: I'm just typing and transforming to NCRs for the page, I don't really speak nor read Arabic.)

António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Jul 2007

Musiqi Al-Jaish

The last letter of the first word is "ya," and the next-to-last letter of the second word is also "ya." Anyway, it spells (again, no-vowels univocal trans.) something like "musiq aldbŝ" = "موستقـ الدبش" (I suppose that the next-to-last letter of the first word is a qaf though it looks like a teh marbuta because AFAIK the latter only occurs at the end of words.)

António Martins-Tuválkin and Dov Gutterman, 12 Jul 2007

What do you call a military band? "Musiqi Al-Jaish." The last letter is "ya" in the first word and "shin" in the second word. This is a calligraphic way of writing them. So it is spelled: mim-waw-sin-ya-qa-ya alif-lam-jim-ya-shin.

Dov Gutterman, 12 Jul 2007