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Modernização profissional no Exército Brasileiro: do alvorecer da Primeira Guerra Mundial à influência doutrinária da Missão Militar Francesa (1906-1930)

  • Prof. Dr. Fernando da Silva Rodrigues,
  • Prof. Ms. Sérgio Ricardo Reis Matos,
  • Prof. Ms. Julio Cezar Fidalgo Zary

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 26
pp. 115 – 128

Abstract

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This article aims to analyze the relevance of the First World War to the process of modernization of the Brazilian Army from 1906 to 1930, which was marked by the first group of officers of the Brazilian Army as trainees in German Troop Corps, by the arrival of the French Military Mission (MMF) to Brazil in March 1920, when the first French instructors, headed by General Maurice Gustave Gamelin and the critic of General Tasso Fragoso, landed in the city of Rio de Janeiro concerning the year 1929, the need for reflection on the end of the MMF contract.

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