Abstract
Transforming and modernizing the Lebanese Army, a national institution with broad popular support, is key for Lebanon to overcome the serious challenges to its democratic form of government, including the system of allocating and sharing of power on the basis of religious sects, the practice of political leaders distributing favors to constituents and protecting them from the central government, dependency on foreign patrons, and pervasive corruption. In making these points, the essay briefly describes major events in the recent political history of Lebanon from the country's founding in 1920 to the present. It argues that in its present form, Lebanese political system, despite open elections, a free press, functioning parliament, and so on, is not a real democracy.
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