[2][3] It was published Monday through Saturday, with an illustrated Sunday supplement named Militares y Paisanos (Military and Countrymen).

[5] Its ideology was hawkish toward all colonial wars of the late 19th century, in addition to its political conservatism and defense of the Army's corporatist interests.

[8] At the suggestion of the regime of Alfonso XIII and the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera, the Mallorcan entrepreneur Juan March contributed 100,000 pesetas to shore up the newspaper's finances.

[9] In 1928 La Correspondencia Militar was merged with another pro-military paper, El Ejército Español [es], of ultraconservative ideology,[8] founded in 1888.

[2][10] Its director in the Republican period was Lieutenant Colonel Emilio Rodríguez Tarduchy [es].