Restrictions to the Military Forces due to Government Change and its Public and Govern Policies in the 2010-2022 Period in Colombia

Abstract

Colombian military forces play a very important role framed within the defense of the national security and State's interests; it has also acquired an important role within society by developing labors and functions that, within several aspects, are not of their correspondence. Taking into account the functions proper to their activities and executions, the main purpose of this article is to display them and see how they detach in the operational realm, which is why an analysis of the public policies of the 2010-2022 period is necessary; this period condensates this change and is the period in which the conditions that propitiated the conjunctural factors and their political and economical problems are visible. For this, a comparison was performed to determine the existing inflexion in the public policies and thus establishing the changes and restrictions. The methodology employed for this was exploratory at the beginning and later explicative in its development and analysis, using secondary data collecting techniques, i.e., because of how unexplored this topic is in Colombia, we felt compelled to expose it, and this leads us to seek for reliable sources that tried to explain the topic from  other perspectives; we then moved forward to the explanation of the hypothesis raised about it regarding the phenomenon in question (Hernández, Fernández-Collado y Baptista, 1997, pp. 44-52), taking into account that the sources were based on alternative data and analyzed public policies that tackled national security and national defense topics. Finally, an analysis of the results was performed and conclusions weremade to answer the research question.