Ministry of National Defense (Lebanon)

The Ministry of National Defense ( Wizarat al Difaa' al Watani) is Lebanon

Lebanon

Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...

's service section for the Lebanese Armed Forces

Lebanese Armed Forces

The Lebanese Armed Forces or Forces Armées Libanaises in French, also known as the Lebanese Army according to its official Website The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) (Arabic: القوات المسلحة اللبنانية | Al-Quwwāt al-Musallaḥa al-Lubnāniyya) or Forces Armées Libanaises in French, also known as the...

which directs the entire Army

Lebanese Armed Forces

. The Ministry is located in Yarze

Yarze

Yarze is a village in Baabda District southeast of Beirut in Lebanon. The most significant public institution is the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. The city also has the famous The Hope for Peace Monument designed and gifted to Lebanon in 1995 by Arman....

h, Baabda

Baabda

Baabda is the capital city of Baabda District as well as the capital of Mount Lebanon Governorate, western Lebanon. Baabda was the capital city of the autonomous Ottoman Mount Lebanon....

, Mount Lebanon

Mount Lebanon

Mount Lebanon , as a geographic designation, is a Lebanese mountain range, averaging above 2,200 meters in height and receiving a substantial amount of precipitation, including snow, which averages around four meters deep. It extends across the whole country along about , parallel to the...

. The building which is considered the biggest Ministry building in Lebanon was designed by the French

France

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architect André Wogenscky in 1968.

Ministers

September 25, 1943 - January 9, 1945, Prince Majid Arslan
January 9, 1945 - August 22, 1945, Abed al-Hamid Karami
August 22, 1945 - May 22, 1946, Ahmed al-Asaad
Ahmed al-Asaad
Ahmad al-Asaad or Ahmad al-As'ad was Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament from June 5, 1951 till May 30, 1953. His son Kamel Asaad, was speaker for three terms.-References:...
May 22, 1946 - February 14, 1951, Prince Majid Arslan
February 14, 1951 - June 7, 1951, Hussein el Awaeyne
June 7, 1951 - February 2, 1952, Rashid Baydoun
February 2, 1952 - September 9, 1952, Prince Majid Arslan
September 9, 1952 - September 14, 1952, Nazem Aakare
September 14, 1952 - September 18, 1952, Saeb Salam
Saeb Salam
Saeb Salam was a Lebanese politician, who served as Prime Minister four times between 1952 and 1973.Salam was the son of Salim Salam, the scion of a prominent Sunni Muslim family who was a prominent politician both under Ottoman rule and then during the French Mandate...
September 18, 1952 - September 30, 1952, Fuad Chehab
Fuad Chehab
Fuad Chehab Fuad Chehab Fuad Chehab (name also spelt Fouad Shihab, or Chehab, depending on transliteration from the original Arabic, (March 19, 1902 - April 25, 1973) was the President of the Lebanese Republic from 1958 to 1964...
September 30, 1952 - April 30, 1953, Khaled Chehab
April 30, 1953 - August 16, 1953, Saeb Salam
Saeb Salam
Saeb Salam was a Lebanese politician, who served as Prime Minister four times between 1952 and 1973.Salam was the son of Salim Salam, the scion of a prominent Sunni Muslim family who was a prominent politician both under Ottoman rule and then during the French Mandate...
August 16, 1953 - March 1, 1954, Abdallah El-Yafi
Abdallah El-Yafi
Abdallah El-Yafi was the Prime Minister of Lebanon 12 times between 1938 and 1969.-Early life and education:Abdallah El-Yafi was born in Beirut, Lebanon on September 7, 1901 into a Muslim Sunni family to parents Aref El-Yafi and Jamila Ostwani, a Damascene.Raised with two brothers, he first...
March 1, 1954 - November 18, 1956, Prince Majid Arslan
November 18, 1956 - March 1, 1957, Fuad Chehab
Fuad Chehab
Fuad Chehab Fuad Chehab Fuad Chehab (name also spelt Fouad Shihab, or Chehab, depending on transliteration from the original Arabic, (March 19, 1902 - April 25, 1973) was the President of the Lebanese Republic from 1958 to 1964...
March 1, 1957 - August 18, 1957, Sami as-Solh
Sami as-Solh
Sami Solh was a Lebanese Sunni Muslim politician. He served as Prime Minister of Lebanon 7 times ....
August 18, 1957 - March 14, 1958, Prince Majid Arslan
March 14, 1958 - May 22, 1958, Rashid Baydoun
May 22, 1958 - September 24, 1958, Sami as-Solh
Sami as-Solh
Sami Solh was a Lebanese Sunni Muslim politician. He served as Prime Minister of Lebanon 7 times ....
September 24, 1958 - May 14, 1960, Rashid Karami
Rashid Karami
Rashid Abdul Hamid Karami was a Lebanese statesman. He was one of the most important political figures in Lebanon for more than 30 years, including during much of Lebanese Civil War , and he served as Prime Minister eight times.- Background :Rashid Karami was born in Tripoli, into one of...
May 14, 1960 - August 1, 1960, *August 1, 1960 - May 20, 1961, Prince Majid Arslan
May 20, 1961 - October 31, 1961, Saeb Salam
Saeb Salam
Saeb Salam was a Lebanese politician, who served as Prime Minister four times between 1952 and 1973.Salam was the son of Salim Salam, the scion of a prominent Sunni Muslim family who was a prominent politician both under Ottoman rule and then during the French Mandate...
October 31, 1961 - February 20, 1964, Prince Majid Arslan
February 20, 1964 - November 18, 1964, Hussein el-Awaeyne
November 18, 1964 - July 25, 1965, Rashid Karami
Rashid Karami
Rashid Abdul Hamid Karami was a Lebanese statesman. He was one of the most important political figures in Lebanon for more than 30 years, including during much of Lebanese Civil War , and he served as Prime Minister eight times.- Background :Rashid Karami was born in Tripoli, into one of...
July 25, 1965 - April 9, 1966April 9, *April 9, 1966 - December 6, 1966, *December 6, 1966 - February 8, 1968, Badre al-Maaouche
February 8, 1968 - July 5, 1968, Abdallah El-Yafi
Abdallah El-Yafi
Abdallah El-Yafi was the Prime Minister of Lebanon 12 times between 1938 and 1969.-Early life and education:Abdallah El-Yafi was born in Beirut, Lebanon on September 7, 1901 into a Muslim Sunni family to parents Aref El-Yafi and Jamila Ostwani, a Damascene.Raised with two brothers, he first...
July 5, 1968 - October 12, 1968, Rashid Baydoun
October 12, 1968 - October 20, 1968, Prince Majid Arslan
October 20, 1968 - January 15, 1969, Hussein el-Awaeyne
January 15, 1969 - October 13, 1970, Prince Majid Arslan
October 13, 1970 - October 13, 1970, Edward Souma
October 13, 1970 - May 27, 1972, Elias Saba
Elias Saba
Elias Saba is a Lebanese politician and economist.Saba served as Finance minister on two occasions; firstly, in the government of Saeb Salam, from 13 October 1970 to 27 May 1972;. , Lewiston Daily Sun secondly in the government of Omar Karami, from 21 October 2004 to 18 April 2005....
May 27, 1972 - April 25, 1973, Prince Majid Arslan
April 25, 1973 - July 8, 1973, Fouad Ghosn
July 8, 1973 - October 31, 1974, Nasre al-Maalouf
October 31, 1974 - May 23, 1975, Joseph Skaff
May 23, 1975 - July 1, 1975, *July 1, 1975 - September 15, 1976, Rashid Karami
Rashid Karami
Rashid Abdul Hamid Karami was a Lebanese statesman. He was one of the most important political figures in Lebanon for more than 30 years, including during much of Lebanese Civil War , and he served as Prime Minister eight times.- Background :Rashid Karami was born in Tripoli, into one of...
September 15, 1976 - December 9, 1976, Camille Chamoun
Camille Chamoun
Camille Nimr Chamoun was President of Lebanon from 1952 to 1958, and one of the country's main Christian leaders during most of the Lebanese Civil War ....
December 9, 1976 - December 20, 1978, *December 20, 1978 - July 16, 1979, Victor Khoury
July 16, 1979 - July 10, 1982, Joseph Skaff
July 10, 1982 - April 30, 1984, Issam Khoury
April 30, 1984 - September 22, 1988, Adil Osseiran
September 22, 1988 - November 25, 1989, Michel Aoun
Michel Aoun
Michel Naim Aoun is a former Lebanese Army Commander and he is one of the allies of Hezbollah. From 22 September 1988 to 13 October 1990, he has served as Prime Minister of the legal one of two rival governments that contended for power. He declared "The Liberation War" against the Syrian...
November 25, 1989 - December 24, 1990, *December 24, 1990 - October 31, 1992, Michel Murr
Michel Murr
Michel Murr is a Lebanese politician and businessman. He first occupied the post of Minister of the Interior, as well as being Deputy Prime Minister in Rafik Hariri's first cabinet in 1992 and remained in the post in all subsequent cabinets formed by Hariri, except the last one, in which his son,...
October 31, 1992 - December 4, 1998, Mohsen Dalloul
December 4, 1998 - October 26, 2000, Ghazi Zaiter
Ghazi Zaiter
Ghazi Zaiter is a Shia Lebanese member of parliament representing the Baalbeck/Hermil district. He served as Defense Minister and des affaires sociales, and later served as Minister of Industry...
October 26, 2000 - April 17, 2003, Khalil Hrawi
April 17, 2003 - October 26, 2004, Mahmoud Hammoud
Mahmoud Hammoud
Mahmoud Hammoud is a Lebanese politician and a retired career diplomat.Hammoud is a Shiite Muslim. He was born in Kafarkila, Marjayoun district, southern Lebanon....
October 26, 2004 - April 19, 2005, Abdul Rahim Mourad
Abdul Rahim Mourad
Abdul Rahim Mourad is a former Defense Minister to Lebanon, and former minister of Education and Higher Studies. He is also the founder of Lebanese International University.Place and date of birth: Bekaa valley 17/10/1942...
April 19, 2005 – June 13, 2011, Elias Murr
Elias Murr
Elias Murr is the former Lebanese Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. He held the positions of Deputy Prime minister and Interior Minister in previous Cabinets....
June 13,2011 - Present, Fayez Ghosn

External links

http://www.lebarmy.gov.lb
List of Ministers (in Arabic)

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