A Sinergia das expressões do Poder Nacional

Abstract

This study takes an initial approach on the importance of the South Atlantic for the Brazilian State, not only from the defense point of view, but also by having 97% of Brazilian foreign trade done by sea. Although Brazilian society does not feel threatened, due to the sense of security provided by well-defined, consolidated and internationally accepted land borders, there is a need to have a National Power, especially its military expression, capable of deterring any contrary action to the interests of the nation. The interests of the Brazilian State were delimited by the National Objectives extracted from the Federal Constitution of 1988 and by the National Objectives of Defense, extracted from the National Defense Policy. In order to limit the study to a geographic space, the Brazilian Strategic Environment was used, as established in the National Defense Policy. From this limitation were pointed out the critical points in the region, the strengths and weaknesses of the internal environment, in the case of the Brazilian territory; and the opportunities and threats of the external environment represented by the Brazilian Strategic Environment. Making use of the frame obtained was verified the behavior of the military expression in consonance with the other expressions of the National Power in the fulfillment of the tasks established in the National Defense Policy. In this quick analysis one can verify the synergy of National Power expressions to maximize favorable scenarios and minimize unfavorable scenarios. With the conclusion, the study ratified that the National Power despite being studied separately by its expressions, its use is indivisible, because the expressions will be of such form connected with each other that makes difficult to measure the degree of mutual interference. Therefore, the National Power is one.