O emprego da Marinha do Brasil em ajuda humanitária: capacidades e limitações: capacidades e limitações logísticas da Marinha do Brasil em ações de ajuda humanitária

Abstract

The participation of Armed Forces in emergency actions and humanitarian aid, together with International Organizations and Non-Governmental Organizations, has gained importance onthe international agenda before the significant increase in the frequency and intensity with which it has been disasters arising from the environmental impact caused by man in recent decades. These events, in addition to countless loss of life and material damage, have brought many concerns to the international community due to increasing socioeconomic crises that occur in most countries who are unable to act effectively by their own to respond promptly and minimize its effects. In light of these shortcomings, the United Nations has increasingly sought the support of the Armed Forces of its Member States to respond quickly to humanitarian emergencies. Reaffirming its commitment with the defense of peace and with the cooperation among the peoples, Brazil has promptly answered humanitarian aid actions by sending military logistical resources of the Navy, Army and Air Force. Despite the Armed Forces having greater operational and logistical capacity to give mobility and speed in this type of aid, to act in subsidiaries tasks are necessary changes in the rules of engagement and military equipment to be used in situations of public calamity, as the focus of preparation and employment of forces is the military fight for the defense of the country. That said, this study aims to check, from the point of view of the needs of humanitarian logistics and the conceptof military logistics, adopted by the Navy Doctrine, the current logistical capacity of the Brazilian Navy to act in humanitarian aid actions. Thus, with the focus in logistical capacity, aims to find out the available and possible means to be used in emergency situations, humanitarian aid abroad and civil defense in the country. To do this, initially, will be seen the facts and statutes legal that deal with the involvement of military in situations of assistance humanitarian, considering the search for the guarantee of rights human, the formation of an international system to respond to emergency situations, the Brazilian law and also the Navy Doctrine, which conditions the preparation and the use of force to subsidiaries shares. Finally, aims to describe the structure of the Navy Supply System that supports the operative means in such actions and thus contributes for Brazil to expand its projection on the world stage. Thus, this work, using the descriptive and analytical methods will reach its purpose as to identify what are the capabilities and limitations logistical of the Navy to act in humanitarian assistance inside or outside the strategic environment defined by the Policy and by the National Defense Strategy.