Who Controls South Lebanon?

The folks over at Harvard University's Olin Institute for Middle Eastern Strategy want to know who rules South Lebanon. They even have a pretty map which delineates the positions and operational boundaries of each UNIFIL deployment, divided by country.

Despite looking like a governing force, I don't think there are any reliable indications that Hezbollah is losing its position of supremacy in the South. It is their country -- they just let UNIFIL and the Lebanese Army drive around. We are coming up on the two-year mark of the Lebanese Army's deployment to the South, and it is immensely disappointing that there hasn't been more progress in winning over the local population's trust and loyalty. It is a job that nobody, strangely, seems interested in accomplishing.