[3] Historian Eduardo González Calleja interpreted the designation of Franco as "a gesture of reconciliation with Africanists, achieved after the operation of summer 1925.

Both Primo and Franco, and the majority of colonial soldiers that formed the teacher board wanted to train a kind of official not study-oriented, with a knightly concept of the profession and without any relationship with the social media at the time whatsoever".

Azaña did not trust the instructions provided at the center and believed its budget was huge in a moment in which military spending was trying to be cut.

[8][9] Just like so many military academies in the world, the General Military Academy is a medium-sized, highly residential baccalaureate college, with a full-time, five-year undergraduate program that emphasizes instruction in the arts, sciences, and professions with a graduate program, preparing men and women to take on the challenge of being officers of the Spanish Army and the Civil Guard.

The academy is accredited by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport and is a directly reporting agency of the Army general staff.

The academic program consists of a structured core of subjects depending on the cadet's chosen specialty as a future Army officer, balanced between the arts and sciences.