A visão militar brasileira da Guerra do Chaco: projeção geopolítica e rivalidade internacional na América do Sul

Helder Gordim da Silveira

doi:10.5433/1984-3356.2009v2n4p649

Brazilian military vision of the Chaco War: projection geopolitics and international rivalry in South America

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Helder Gordim da Silveira Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

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https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-3356.2009v2n4p649

Keywords:

Chaco War, Geopolitics, Military Thought, Brazil, Argentina

Abstract

It examines how the military Brazilian evaluated the Chaco War (1932-1935) between Paraguay and Bolivia, from official reports and analysis on the state limit peak of the conflict. Goal is to propose that this view is informed by the character of geopolitical doctrines that have been consolidated in the country throughout the 1920s, finding definite contribution to the work of Mario Travassos, at the beginning of the next de-cade. The traditional rivalry with Argentina over the strategic supremacy in South America was updated so the Brazilian military view of War.

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2009-10-07

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SILVEIRA, Helder Gordim da. Brazilian military vision of the Chaco War: projection geopolitics and international rivalry in South America. Antíteses, [S. l.], v. 2, n. 4, p. 649–667, 2009. DOI: 10.5433/1984-3356.2009v2n4p649. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses/article/view/2740. Acesso em: 10 feb. 2026.

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Vol. 2, n. 4, jul.-dec. 2009. Dossier History and Defense

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