The purpose of this article is to carry out a social analysis of the army formation in the Sovereign State of Boyacá. On the basis of a political interpretation of radical liberalism, the limits of this project of a strong civilian and anti-military criterion are questioned, but which was forced to exercise force to defend its regime, and therefore had to create troops, battalions, armies and go to war. Practices in which the limits of radical liberalism became apparent by resorting to forms of recruitment contrary to his civic discourse of citizenship. The figure of the Bolivian soldier is visible as a princi — a component of the troops of the National Guard, who was recruited in the past — of ethnic, regional and class discrimination. It is essential to understand the partisan wars by the definition and construction of the Colombian national state.