ABSTRACT
Studying military families in Argentina raises important questions due to their involvement in the crimes of the last dictatorship (1976–1983). The objective of the study realized in Buenos Aires in 2015 and 2016 was to explore the families’ narratives of both the years of political violence and the current democratic times, and to understand what it meant to be an officer or a military wife during the last dictatorship, and what it means to be a member of a military family of that age in contemporary democratic Argentina. Described are the strategies implemented within the military world that were applied after the trials that impacted the system of reciprocal expectations between the institution and the families. We discuss how kinship contributes to embed military power in Argentine society.
