A validade dos conceitos de estratégia/arte operacional na realização de operações militares no seculo XXI: a importância da estratégia operacional na realização de Operações Militares Conjuntas pelas Forças Armadas Brasileiras: Lições aprendidas com a Guerra das Malvinas

Abstract

The history of recent conflicts has generally shown that the Armed Forces will be employed in a joint manner as a replacement for singular use. In this context, the synergy of the Armed Forces’ means and the convergence of its efforts become important for maximum efficiency of all means of available forces. The analysis of the Falklands War brings considerable elements for understanding the importance of decision - making levels used to conduct a crisis and the importance of the theoretical set called operational strategy. Lessons learned from the Falklands War should also be considered to design a new set of doctrinal employment of the Brazilian Armed Force s, for the acquisition of new weapons systems, which should have the necessary interoperability among forces. The elements of operational strategy, key concept for joint operations are analyzed with the objective of studying its applicability for the Brazi lian Armed Forces in the methodology of the joint planning of future military operations. This paper aims to present the importance of the operational level in joint military operations, using the concrete experience of the Falklands War.