O emprego do ambiente sintético computacional nos jogos de guerra e de crise de nível estratégico: perspectivas e oportunidades para a Marinha do Brasil

Abstract

The current stage of development of Information and Communication Technology has allowed the achievement of an unprecedented level of realism in modeling and simulation tools, notice able, for example, in the wargaming efforts of the United States and the countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In the Brazilian Navy, the Naval War College uses a Naval War Simulator System in its tactical and operational games, providing appropriate tools for representing scenarios, entities and interactions between players. In its games of strategic level, however, the employed method is the Seminar and robust computer interactions are not observed, nor are the potential benefits arising from their employment highlighted. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the feasibility of employing a synt hetic computational environment in Brazilian Navy strategic level wargames and crisis management exercises, considering the increased complexity of model-required simulators, as well as to estimate scientific and technological growth prospects and opportunities arising from its use by the Service. Through literature research and unstructured interviews with experts, we collected the necessary data for analyzing the sector’s current situation in the Navy and relevant part of the developed world, and the trends and challenges pertaining to the issue at hand were identified. It was found that there is potential for the necessary basic research on the theme development, with the integration of efforts with academia and industry. Also, that such scientific development would be consistent with the principles established by the National Defense Strategy and the Naval Objectives listed in the Strategic Planning of the Navy, for promoting training and cyber technologies and contributing to improving international political-strategic crises management skills. The survey has concluded that the use of a computational synthetic environment is not a key factor, but it is feasible and relevant to the strategic level wargames in the Brazilian Navy. Such application increases the quality of their results, from an educational perspective, and contributes to the full employment of their analytical capacity in developing a strategic thinking culture and to overcome the challenges pertaining to the evolution of the naval power application scenarios.