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Lebanon's Military Limits
Lebanese Defense Minister Michel Menassa’s statement sparked debate over the limits of political decision-making and the army command’s authority, amid challenges to extending state authority and establishing a state monopoly on arms. The article notes that Article 65 of the Constitution empowers the Council of Ministers to set general policy, including defense and security policy, and that the military’s role is to plan and implement within the directives of civilian authority—not to make independent decisions or obstruct them. It concludes that the statement aimed to protect the army’s cohesion, but was constitutionally ambiguous, and that establishing a state monopoly on arms and extending state authority fall within the government’s remit.
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