DEFENSE: IN THE FOX AND HEDGEHOG DILEMMA

Abstract

In the exercise of updating the tasks that the State Defense should assume in a post-Cold War regional and local environment, it has been recognized that the dynamics of uncertainty, also, modified the traditional notions of risks and threats. This environment has placed the Defense structure as the main object of study and thus validates its roles and functions. However, it is possible to notice that during the task of evaluating the behavior of the Latin American Armed Forces, in a democracy; biases would have been incurred that have distorted the result. 

This essay tries to reveal the way in which said criteria affected some works that, taking civil-military relations as a perspective, try to validate the variables “democratic civil control, effectiveness and efficiency” as the main source of difficulties to advance their evolution

Understanding the difficulty of undertaking a study that fully answers the postulate, we have opted for the use of a descriptive and exploratory qualitative methodology, facilitating the obtaining and interpretation of information extracted from published works previously selected by the author. Then, a process of data analysis will be applied, seeking to synthesize the antecedents obtained and evaluated by specialists in the area, aiming to present as a result those relevant elements that confirm the deviations and allow incentives for future research