The Defence Juntas () were professional associations of military officers that sprouted in Spain during the last rales of the
Restoration. They were created from 1916 onward by
Army
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officers based in
Peninsular Spain
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disgruntled because of the comparatively quicker war-merit-based promotion of the army officers posted in Africa, underpinning the vs polarization within the armed forces. Jointly with the
1917 general strike and the meetings of the so-called Assembly of Parliamentarians in Barcelona, the unrest stirred by the wayward juntas (which refused to disband after an order to do so issued by the government of
García Prieto in the Summer of 1917) destabilized the regime during the
Crisis of 1917.
References
1910s in Spain
Spanish Army
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