Entre a espada de Caxias e a balança de Themis: mudanças institucionais, guerre révolutionnaire e Justiça Militar na ditadura de 1964.

The aim of this article is to show how the French theory of guerre révolutionnaire influenced certain institutional changes within the Brazilian Military Judiciary during the military dictatorship that began in 1964. By way of these changes, the Military Justice system took on a leading role in the judicial repression of the political opposition in Brazil. This institutional transformation derived from the French strategies of "restraint" and "response", which guided the creation of a new legal framework for guerrilla containment under the political direction of the Armed Forces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]