Aspectos políticos do orçamento de defesa: o orçamento da Marinha do Brasil e a Política de Defesa nacional

Abstract

Building an effective national defense is not a sim ple task and involves at least the articulation of three main elements: a na tional defense policy, a strategic plan developed at the highest echelon of the state, and an appropriate budget for defense. The lack or deficiency of any of these ele ments may affect the successful outcome of the system as a whole. Today, we find a disharmony between the assignment of tasks for the Brazilian Navy and the budget resources that are designated to it. The purpose of this work is to an alyze the reasons of this imbalance. To achieve this goal, the process of ela borating the Navy budget regarding the National Defense Policy was considere d in detail, as the financial difficulties faced by the Navy are a hindrance to t he success of a national defense policy.