Las Doctrinas de la Seguridad Nacional Latinoamericanas: Osiris Villegas y sus teorías en tiempos de desperonización y Guerra Fría. Argentina, 1956-1985

Abstract

Latin America was marked by the geopolitical and ideological axes of the Cold War. In that context, the National Security Doctrine came into being as a series of not-necessarily-systematized world views which articulated different traditions. In Argentina, since the late 1950s and in the 1960s, doctrinal reforms and modes of training in the fight against the Communist insurgency were taking shape. A group of intellectual military men participated in this development. Osiris Villegas was one of these figures. This article examines the work of this important theorist, spokesperson, and executor of the counterrevolutionary war. The DSNL addressed the concept of war and nation, with the uniqueness of the confluence of different international theories and traditions, although each country gave space to local particu-larities. To understand this, it is necessary to overcome the description of tactics and strategies and reach the doctrinal core, that is, the economic, social, and cultural model that they sought to defend.