Analizaremos el papel que Fausto Reinaga asignó en distintas etapas de su vida y pensamiento a la alianza de las masas indias con las Fuerzas Armadas para la consecución de la Revolución india en Bolivia. Se atenderá especialmente a la valoración positiva que hizo de varios caudillos militares de origen popular que en distintos momentos de la historia, como presidentes de la república, asumieron programas antioligárquicos y antifeudales y fueron enfrentados y derrotados por las élites dominantes que lograron eliminarlos e impidieron que las transformaciones que iniciaron pudieran concretarse, dejando honda huella en la memoria popular y en el pensamiento del primer intelectual indio: Fausto Reinaga, para quien estas experiencias, aun más que aquellas de los partidos dirigidos por civiles de clase media, fueron las que marcaron las vías de transformación social en Bolivia.We will analyze the role that Fausto Reinaga assigned in various stages of his life and thought to the alliance between the indian masses and the Army to achieve the Indian Revolution in Boliva. We will dedicate especial attention to the positive assessment he made of several warlords of popular origin who, as presidents of the Republic in different moments of the history, took on anti-oligarchic and anti-feudal programs. These were opposed and defeated by the dominant elites, which managed to eliminate them and prevent the transformations that such programs had initiated. Thus, these warlords left a great footprint in the popular memory and in the thought of the first indian intellectual: Fausto Reinaga. For whom these experiences, even more than the ones of the parties directed by middle class civilians, were the ones that marked the ways of social transformation in Bolivia.