Commanders of the Lebanese Armed Forces

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According to the Constitution, the President of the Lebanese Republic is the commander-in-chief of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). The operational command is the responsibility of the Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces.

Commanders

This is a list of the LAF commanders from its establishment in 1945 to the present:

1 August 1945 to 22 September 1958: Fuad Chehab

9 October 1958 to 31 January 1959: Toufic Salem

1 February 1959 to 30 June 1965: Adel Shehab

1 July 1965 to 6 January 1970: Emile Boustany

7 January 1970 to 24 July 1971: Jean Njeim

25 July 1971 to 9 September 1975: Iskandar Ghanem

10 September 1975 to 27 March 1977: Hanna Saïd

28 March 1977 to 7 December 1982: Victor Khoury

8 December 1982 to 22 June 1984: Ibrahim Tannous

23 June 1984 to 13 October 1990: Michel Aoun

28 November 1989 to 23 November 1998: Émile Lahoud

21 December 1998 to 26 May 2008: Michel Suleiman

30 August 2008 to present: Jean Kahwaji

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