Impact of the reforms

• • military reforms had a significant impact on the army.
  • 1/2 Spains generals and 40% of officers agreed to retire early
  • removed r/w officers from their post - Mola - who would play a leading role in unleashing the civil war
  • undermined support for the republic
  • r/w newspapers - gov reforms as an attempt to destroy the army, the church and the power of landowners
• • purge of the army did not remove all of the supporters of Primo De Rivera - Franco stayed in post
  • Franco - commanding officer at the Saragossa Military Academy since 1928 and when it closed he became a fierce critic of the new gov