Hundred Days' War

Hundred Days War
Part of the Lebanese Civil War
Date February 7, 1978 – April 1978 Location East Beirut Result Lebanese Front victory Syrian Army expulsion from East Beirut End of Arab Deterrent Force's misson in Lebanon Alliance breaking between Syria and the Lebanese Front
Belligerents
Lebanese Front Kataeb Party Tigers Militia Guardians of the Cedars Al-Tanzim Tyous Army of Free Lebanon	Syrian Army Marada Brigades
Commanders and leaders
Pierre Gemayel Bachir Gemayel William Hawi Georges Adwan Etienne Saqr Dany Chamoun Saad Haddad Antoine Barakat	Hafez al-Assad Mustafa Tlass Tony Frangieh
Casualties and losses
160 dead and 400 injured

Lebanese Front victory

Lebanese Front

The Hundred Days War (Arabic: حرب المئة يوم | Harb Al-Mia’at Yaoum), also known as 'La Guerre des Cent Jours' in French was a subconflict within the 1977–82 phase of the Lebanese Civil War which occurred at the Lebanese Capital Beirut. It was fought between the allied Christian Lebanese Front militias, under the command of the Kataeb Party's President Bachir Gemayel, and the Syrian troops of the Arab Deterrent Force (ADF).

In January 1976, the Phalange joined the main Christian parties – National Liberal Party (NLP), Lebanese Renewal Party (LRP), Marada Brigade, Al-Tanzim, and others – in a loose coalition, the Lebanese Front, designed to act as a political counterweight to the predominantely Muslim Lebanese National Movement (LNM) - Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) alliance. In order to deal with the Syrian military intervention of June 1976 and better coordinate the military operations of their respective militias, Christian militia leaders agreed to form in August that year a joint military command (aka the "Command Council") whose new collective name was the "Lebanese Forces" (LF). From the very beginning, it became clear that the Lebanese Front's Command Council was dominated by the Phalange and its KRF militia under the charismatic leadership of Bachir Gemayel, who sought to unify the various Christian militias. From 1977 onwards, Bachir began implementing the controversial "unification of the rifle" policy, using the LF to build a new power base for himself, distinct from that of the Phalange or any of the other traditional rightist parties. However, Bachir's actions soon put him on a direct collision course with Syria. Relations between the LF command and Damascus had already become frosty as a consequence of the ADF's growing unwillingness to either suppress the LNM-PLO alliance militias in west Beirut altogether or allow the Christian militias to do so.

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