[ES]El objetivo de este trabajo es que el lector se acerque al Desastre de Annual a través de las reflexiones que, durante 1921 y en los años inmediatos, formularon dos pensadores de enorme talla intelectual. Nos estamos refiriendo a Ramiro de Maeztu y Miguel de Unamuno. Ambos escribieron mucho sobre el ejército colonial en África y sobre su desbandada, llegándo a liderar bloques de opinión muy confrontados.
[EN]The purpose of this work is to allow the reader to approach the Annual Disaster through the reflections that, during 1921 and the following years, were formulated by two thinkers of enormous intellectual stature. We are referring to Ramiro de Maeztu and Miguel de Unamuno. Both wrote extensively on the colonial army in Africa and on its disbandment, even leading opposing blocks of opinion.
