Estratégia Naval, Ciência e Tecnologia: uma análise sobre os prováveis impactos gerados pelo cenário tecnológico atual

Abstract

This work investigates the interaction between Science, Technology and Strategy. The goalis to evaluate the validity of some the most important maritime strategic postulates fromthe late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially those developed by Alfred T.Mahan. Therefore, we analyze: the process that led Science and Technology to become asource of power in international relations; the relationship between Science, Technologyand Strategy; the concept of Revolution in Military Matters; the formation of Mahan andCorbett’s strategic conceptions; the current technological scenario with emphasis on theanalysis of naval combat instruments; and the emergence of new strategic arrangementsappropriate to the current technological scenario. We conclude that the strategic principleof the concentration of forces is presently under various forms of pressure, especially thetechnological one