Lebanese Forces – Executive Command
| Lebanese Forces – Executive Command | |
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| Participant in Lebanese civil war (1975-1990) | |
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Logo of the Lebanese Forces – Executive Command (1985-1991).
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| Active | 1985–1991 |
| Leaders | Elie Hobeika |
| Headquarters | Zahlé (Beqaa) |
| Size | 1,000 fighters |
| Originated as | 600-700 men |
| Allies | Lebanese National Salvation Front (LNSF), Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP), Syrian Armed Forces |
| Opponents | Lebanese Forces, Guardians of the Cedars (GoC), Tigers Militia, Hezbollah, Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) |
The Lebanese Forces – Executive Command, or LFEC (Arabic: Al-Quwwat al-Lubnaniyya – Al-Qiyada Al-Tanfeethiyya), was a splinter group from the Lebanese Forces led by Elie Hobeika, based in the town of Zahlé in the Beqaa valley in the late 1980s. It was initially founded in January 1985 under the title Lebanese Forces – Uprising or LFU (Arabic: Al-Quwwat al-Lubnaniyya – Intifada), and changed its name in 1986.
The LFU was formed by Hobeika at Zahlé out of his LF supporters, who sought refuge in the Syrian-controlled Beqaa after being ousted from East Beirut in January 1985 by the Lebanese Forces' faction led by Samir Geagea. Renamed Lebanese Forces – Executive Command in 1986 and financed by Syria, Hobeika and its men conveyed little or no support at all from the Greek-Catholic citizens of Zahlé, who preferred to lend their backing to the mainstream Lebanese Forces and later, to General Michel Aoun's interim military government.
Initially numbering just 600-700 fighters, the LFEC by the late 1980s aligned some 1,000 militiamen, mostly Maronites, of which 300 operated in West Beirut whilst the remainder were kept in reserve at Zahlé. Apart from a few technicals equipped with heavy machine-guns, recoilless rifles and anti-aircraft , the militia had no armoured vehicles nor artillery of their own but usually relied on the Syrian Army's 82nd Armoured Brigade stationed at the Beqaa for armour and artillery support.
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