Abstract

The conception of the political and its representation embodied in the nation-state entered into crisis after the First World War but became apparent in the decade of the sixties of the last century. Along with this crisis, the assumptions on which the political structures erected from that concept were based have also been shaken, including the military institution and its political role within a society. In this situation is Venezuela, considering the need to determine the role of the military from a political perspective. This discussion has orbited around its usefulness, its role in Venezuelan history, its relationship with politics, its current role and its future. Therefore, we will examine, what does the term "military" refer to, analyze the relationship between the military and politics and how this relationship has been presented in Venezuela, to investigate where the discussion of the military-being in the country currently and the world and, finally, to determine what its implications are for a republican Venezuela. The object of this republican reflection is to try to generate the conditions of possibility of thinking about the new Venezuelan military-being. In this review, it was concluded that the military is an expression of the existence of a given productive capacity within a political community of producers and this has not happened in Venezuela, thus specifying in the current moments of a new military institution, if it is the case, to be up to the political circumstances of the country and the world in which we live.