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The Military and Political Intervention: Ideological Trends and Contemporary Contexts*

“…This is, therefore, the aim of this text: to attempt to examine the main outlines of the way in which, at the dawn of the 20 th century, Republicanism affected the officer corps trained under the constitutional monarchy; how, a few years later, a new movement based on authoritarian and anti-liberal ideas was able to mobilise a large portion of the military cadres to bring about a "return to order"; and how, after the experience of a prolonged war in the overseas territories, which was low intensity but employed subversive methods, the next generation of professional soldiers used their arms to bring down the ruling regime and many of them were tempted by various forms of allegiance to revolutionary socialist projects. This exercise will obviously involve skimming over Matos's (2008) arguments about, and exhaustive examination of, the relations between military institutions and political power throughout history, in order to present a few personal reflections, some of which have already appeared in published works on the subject of "political influences on the army" in the modern and contemporary world. To a certain extent, this represents the exact opposite * Article published in RCCS 86 (September 2009). of the phenomena analysed by Matos, whose concern is with the "influence of the army on politics."…”