Hezbollah rocket force

Hezbollah has the armed strength of a medium-sized army. The most powerful non-state actor in the world, Hezbollah is also stronger than the Lebanese Army. A hybrid force, the group maintains "robust conventional and unconventional military capabilities." Hezbollah's fighting strength has grown substantially since the 2006 Lebanon War.

In 2016, Hezbollah had about 20,000 active duty troops and 25,000 reservists. They are financed by Iran and trained by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Hezbollah's military budget runs about one billion dollars per year.

Hezbollah's military strength is based on the quantity and quality of the rockets they possess, which they use against their primary enemy, Israel. The group's strategy against Israel uses missiles and rockets as offensive weaponry combined with light infantry and anti-armor units to defend their firing positions in southern Lebanon. Estimates of Hezbollah's total missile count range from 120,000 to 150,000, considerably more than most countries.

Hezbollah possesses limited amounts of anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles, as well thousands of anti-tank missiles, which they are skilled at using. The group does not have any aircraft, tanks, or armored vehicles in Lebanon, as they cannot counter Israeli air supremacy. However, Hezbollah maintains armor in neighboring Syria, including T-55 and T-72 tanks. The group has built a large number of weapons caches, tunnels, and bunkers in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah's tactical strengths are cover and concealment, direct fire, and preparation of fighting positions, while their weaknesses include maneuver warfare, indirect fire, and small arms marksmanship. Though Hezbollah squads compare with Israeli squads, Hezbollah as a whole remains "quantitatively and qualitatively" weaker than the Israel Defense Forces.

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