ABSTRACT
This chapter develops a critique of the DSN by establishing the links between the TEA and the development of thinking about security between 1945 and 1985. It starts by exploring the continuities in the power of the military after the end of the Second World War and the ousting of President Getúlio Vargas from the presidency, and uses this analysis as the framework for the historic context in which the establishment of the Escola Superior de Guerra (ESG) took place.
