History of a misunderstanding: Army and Republic in the Spain of the Popular Front

Authors

  • Joaquin Gil Honduvilla Ministerio de Defensa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18042/hp.41.04

Keywords:

Republic, Army, conspiracy, politicization, clandestine.

Abstract

This article intends to specify the essentially military factors that conditioned the divorce between Republic and a part of the Army. Also study the republican military reality in the last months before the Civil War, showing the bankruptcy and politicization of the military institution and the difficult relationship that existed in those days between civil and military. To this end, special attention is paid to two specific military regions, the Protectorate of Morocco and the Second Organic Division (Andalusia). In work he tries to explain how the divorce on the part of the Army with the republican regime was prior to the arrival of the Popular Front, but also how those months were an accelerator towards the rebellion.

Author Biography

Joaquin Gil Honduvilla, Ministerio de Defensa

Teniente Coronel del Cuerpo Jurídico Militar

Published

2019-05-14

Issue

Section

MONOGRAPHS

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