ABSTRACT
The characteristics of civil-military relations in any given state are influenced by the components of its national security policy. Professor Moshe Lissak (1991) published an article in 1991 on this subject showing that every security doctrine, has an effect on civilmilitary relations in general and on the military elite and political elite in particular. In the case of Israel, where there is no formal national security doctrine, and the conventional security concept is “a rule partially written and partially intuited” (Tal 1996: 12), the nature of the civil-military relations might lead one to draw the con clusion that Israel is a su i g en eris among modem states. Many fac tors are involved and explanations for Israel’s uniqueness can be found in numerous studies dealing with the development of Israeli civil-military relations since 1948.
