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Aram Nerguizian is a visiting fellow with the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at CSIS, where he conducts research on the Middle East and North Africa. He has coauthored books with Anthony Cordesman, holder of the Burke Chair, on the Israeli-Syrian military balance and force developments in the Maghreb. He is also the author of The Lebanese Armed Forces: Challenges and Opportunities in Post-Syria Lebanon (CSIS, forthcoming).
Nerguizian’s current research focuses on security politics in the Levant and the Gulf with an emphasis on specialized themes, such as the Lebanese military, Palestinian security forces, and challenges to force development in post-conflict and divided societies. He received his B.A. from Concordia University in Montreal, his M.A. from George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, and a certificate in security assistance management from the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management.
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"According to Aram Nerguizian, a defense and security expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the 58,000-strong Army is roughly one-third Shiite and one-third Sunni, with the latter having an estimated 4,000 more soldiers than the former. The remaining third is composed of Christians and Druze. Many Shiites within the Army have a natural sympathy for their co-religionists in Hezbollah, reflecting a bond between the two institutions that is subtle, finely-balanced, and sometimes ambiguous."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100806/wl_csm/318390