As atuais capacidades de Inteligência de Defesa do Reino Unido e do Brasil: uma comparação

Abstract

This article aims to compare the current capabilities of Defence Intelligence in Brazil and the United Kingdom, highlighting their differences and the extent to which the second can serve as a model for the first. The methodology used was bibliographic research. First, the concepts of security and defence are addressed, then a general notion about Capacity Based Planning (CBP) is presented, a tool used to carry out the comparison between British and Brazilian defence intelligence capabilities. Next, as a result, the intelligence capabilities inherent to Brazil and the United Kingdom are raised, with an emphasis on Defence Intelligence and its strategic bias, highlighting the characteristics and pointing out gaps in Brazil and their reflexes for defence. Finally, final considerations are presented, in a comparison between the two intelligence systems analyzed. As a conclusion, it appears that the United Kingdom can serve as a north for the search for capabilities in Defence Intelligence that Brazil lacks, with regard mainly to personnel, training, material, doctrine and infrastructure. Despite this gap, demonstrating to the nation the contribution of defence to national growth is a path to be taken to resolve this obstacle, expanding the debate on the topic.