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CODESIDO, Lucas. The military education in times of war. The origins of the Military College of the Nation (Argentina, 1869-1880). Rev. hist. Am. [online]. 2021, n.160, pp.111-139.  Epub 30-Abr-2021. ISSN 2663-371X.  https://doi.org/10.35424/rha.160.2021.840.

The article analyzes the genesis of the National military college (Argentina) in its first years of existence, linking its trajectory with a series of specific policies aimed at the centralization of military power undertaken during the Sarmiento presidency. The effort to gain control the National Guard is linked to the commitment to turn the Army of the Line into the chosen platform for the professionalization of the national military forces. Military education is linked to the subordination of the armed forces to the national State and is expressed in the control of the army by the presidential authority. This attribute emerges as a distinctive feature of the future officer trained in the Military College. We have studied the start-up of the school in its first years of existence and examined the ways in which the political-military dispute crept into its classrooms by modifying some of the protocols devised to separate the Army from partisan fight. This study identifies these components and exposes their trajectories within the dynamics, practices and projects that aim to achieve the monopoly of military force and constitute a central part of the consolidation process of the national State in Argentina.

Palavras-chave : Army; National Military College; Sarmiento; armed forces.

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