The process of de-Malvinization and dismantling of the Argentine state has reached a point of no return . What we denounced on this website in September 2025 as a “mass exodus” for economic reasons has now mutated into a humanitarian tragedy . The string of deaths and suspected suicides of Army and Gendarmerie personnel—five cases in just one month—are not isolated incidents: they are the terminal symptom of an institution broken by meager salaries, a loss of strategic purpose, and state abandonment.

A tragic December and January: the cost of neglect

From mid-December 2025 to this January 16, 2026, the Argentine military family has been shaken by a frequency of deaths that is unprecedented in times of peace .

The September diagnosis: The root of the tragedy

In our previous investigation, Agenda Malvinas warned that more than 15,000 personnel had left the armed forces since Javier Milei took office . The salary gap with provincial police forces (such as the FPA in Córdoba) made military service an unsustainable burden.

The depletion is not just numerical; it's strategic . The Army has lost 85% of its volunteer soldiers to casualties . When those at the base of the pyramid can't pay rent or feed their families, and when the political leadership prioritizes a discourse of "modernization" devoid of resources for basic well-being, the mental health of the troops breaks down. The depression that is now claiming lives is intimately linked to precarious employment and the lack of a decent professional future .

Sovereignty at risk: A defenseless Argentina

This defunding is not a miscalculation, but a component of the colonial model that they seek to deepen . A country without professional, well-paid, and morally sound armed forces is a country that de facto relinquishes the protection of its natural resources and its sovereign claim in the South Atlantic.

While Britain consolidates its military presence in the islands and intensifies its plunder of fishing and oil resources, Milei's Argentina responds with forces decimated by desertion and suicide. The dismantling of IOSFA (the military social security system) has left troops without essential medical support, precisely when post-traumatic stress and the economic crisis are hitting them hardest .

The paradox of "Re-equipping"

It is cynical that the government announces arms purchases or international agreements while its own soldiers are taking their own lives at their posts or in their homes due to lack of sustenance and support. There can be no sovereignty with impoverished soldiers. There can be no national defense with an officer corps that sees retirement as the only way to avoid destitution.

The death of the fifth officer in Quilmes is a final wake-up call . These are not "isolated incidents" ; they are the direct consequence of a system that treats the State as a criminal organization and, therefore, abandons those who have the constitutional responsibility to defend the territorial integrity of the Nation .