ABSTRACT
It is one thing to believe that the policies of a regime are fundamentally misguided. It is another to move to displace that regime by force. The literature is replete with examples of governments that have been tolerated by their armed forces, although it can safely be assumed that the conduct of those governments was anathema to their armies or the general public. 1 To convert belief into action requires conditions that seem to make action imperative or, in the words of one scholar, ‘there must be a conviction that action by the armed forces is necessary and appropriate.’ 2
