Se ha realizado un estudio exploratorio no experimental transversal con estudiantes universitarios de una institución educativa militar argentina para hallar los componentes cognitivos, afectivos, y comportamentales de su actitud hacia la Guerra de Malvinas, acontecida del 2 de abril al 14 de junio de 1982 entre Argentina y Gran Bretaña. Un total de 448 cadetes (26% mujeres) con una edad media de 22,5 años (rango 18-29) informaron sobre sus cogniciones, afectos, y comportamientos acerca de la misma. Se realizó un análisis de contenido léxico informatizado del corpus constituido por las respuestas del conjunto de cadetes utilizando la clasificación jerarquizada descendente del método Reinert con el software IRaMuTeQ. Del análisis del corpus se concluye que la actitud hacia esa guerra incluye (a) pensamientos sobre la misma guerra (ganarla y sus aspectos militares deficitarios) y sobre el personal militar que combatió (el amor que los llevó a dar su vida por la Patria, y el dolor de su familia), (b) afectividad positiva (sentimientos de admiración y orgullo, honor y patriotismo) y a predominio negativo (dolor y bronca, tristeza y alegría), y (c) acciones académicas (leer y estudiar sobre esa guerra) y militares (obtener formación profesional militar). Palabras clave Actitudes - Guerra - Psicología Militar ABSTRACT ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE MALVINAS WAR IN CADETS OF THE ARGENTINE ARMY A cross-sectional non-experimental exploratory study was conducted with university students of an Argentine military educational institution to find the cognitive, affective, and behavioral components of their attitude towards the Malvinas War, which took place from April 2 to June 14, 1982 between Argentina and Great Britain.A total of 448 cadets (26% female) with a mean age of 22.5 years (range 18-29) reported on their cognitive, affective, and behavioral reactions towards that war. A computerized lexical content analysis of the corpus constituted by the responses of the set of cadets was performed using the top-down hierarchical classification of the Reinert method with the IRaMuTeQ software. From the analysis of the corpus it is concluded that the attitude towards that war includes (a) thoughts about that war (winning it and its deficient military aspects) and about the military personnel who fought (the love that led them to give their lives for the Homeland, and the pain of their family), (b) positive affectivity (feelings of admiration and pride, honor and patriotism) and predominantly negative (pain and anger, sadness and joy), and (c) academic (reading and studying about that war) and military (obtaining professional military training) behaviors. Keywords Attitudes - War - Military Psychology