ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the ideological components and effects of the "national security doctrine" in Latin America. The concept of national power informs the organizational aspect of the national security doctrine, as applied to both the "internal front" and the military. Those concepts of the military doctrine of national security that derive from geopolitics are concerned with the expansion and reordering of states and societies. In the historical development of the doctrine, certain elements that were incorporated into military ideology immediately after Second World War reflected the experiences of the armed forces during the war. During the professionalization and modernization of the military subsequent to Second World War, a corporatist ideology emerged from military headquarters that transformed the military way of seeing the world and of situating themselves in it. Latin American military doctrines did not emerge from a consideration and analysis of Latin American societies, but instead received their first impulse from foreign military doctrines.
