ABSTRACT
Back in 1984, in a brilliant theoretical paper, our colleague and mentor Prof. Moshe Lissak (1984) offered us a four-fold model, based on the convergence-divergence (between the military organization and its society) dimension, on the one hand, and the strengthening or weakening of linkages between the armed forces and the civilian population, on the other. According to Prof. Lissak, “one should not a priori assume positive or negative correlations” between these two dimensions (p.58); however, Lissak was very clear in concluding his theoretical paper by reminding us that “social and political sta bility of societies depend so heavily on the quality of relations be tween civilian and military elites” (p.59).
