La profesión y los valores militares en España

Abstract

This paper analyses the perception that the Spanish officers have today about their profession, as well as specific values which pervade it. In order to achieve this it starts with civilinizational process described by Morris Janowitz. Next, it uses the slant popularized by Charles Moskos, because it allows one to distinguish between the institutional model from the occupational one, and from some hybrid types among them both. And finally, it raises some questions about the postmodern issues. It is deduced from the sources employed that Spanish Armed Forces look forward to advancing from the institutional to some other mixed form, which includes occupational values and postmodern trends. Not meaning a definite resignation of the features that suppose the traditional ethos of the Armed Forces.