Rank and Privilege: The Military and Society in Latin America

ISBN-13: 9780842024334 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 239 str.

Linda A. Rodriguez

Opis

The power of the military in Latin America has become well known in recent decades, as coups have brought numerous military regimes into office since 1960. Yet too often it is assumed, for example, that the region's armed forces have had no legitimate defence functions, or that military professionalism is only a recent development.