ABSTRACT
This paper examines how a military ethos is enacted into con crete mechanisms of organizational management and how fragile these mechanisms become with changes in operational scale and public morality. The analysis deals with the use of trust in the army and the development of overtrust and trust failure. Discussing the development of a large-scale case of deceit and corruption in the Israeli Air Force, it shows that the sliding of crime into scandal can be seen as part of contrasted strategies to maintain or change the matrix of military accreditation in Israel.
