MILITARY CHESS. NOTES ON THE HEADQUARTERS OF MILITARY OPERATIONS BETWEEN 1917 AND 1923

Abstract

The history of the Headquarters of Military Operations in Mexico has been
practically unexplored. This article offers an approach to the creation and
operation of this territorial military organization between 1917 and 1923, which
includes the governments of Venustiano Carranza and Álvaro Obregón, before
the development of the Delahuertista rebellion. The military division reflected
the difficulties of pacifying the country and political recentralization. These
processes did not end with the rise of the Sonora group to power in 1920; on the
contrary, their arrival led to the development of new rebel movements, some
local and others planned by exiles from the United States. The uprisings forced
the federal Executive to reorganize, like a chessboard, the men who commanded
the headquarters, who almost always became political operators of the center,
but also occasional accomplices of the uprisings and even leaders of them.