Article
Spanish, Portuguese
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oai:doaj.org/article:659d3653b2ca4d31beb53f38a52d96ba>
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DOI: <
10.35305/rp.v9i19.252>
Abstract
The democratic transition in Argentina was caused by the collapse of the last dictatorship. After the defeat in the Falkland War in 1982, the armed forces passed through those years from a relatively weak position in national politics and as state corporations. In particular, the military experienced a professional and institutional crisis that threatened to break the chain of commands. In fact, it went bankrupt during the ‘overcrowded surveys’ in April 1987, January and December 1988 and December 1990. Repression of the latter ended with five decades of military political interventions and ensured military subordination to civilian power. The purpose of that article is, on the one hand, to understand how those conflicts were prosecuted by the authorities and officers of the Cadetes Corps of the National Military College between 1984 and 1986, that is to say, before the ‘overcrowding’. And, on the other hand, to analyse reform initiatives to bring the education of the cadets into line with changes in civil-military relations and democratic Argentinian society.