Reflexões sobre o III Simpósio do CFN: contribuições para o desenvolvimento de uma sistemática de planejamento de força para a MB

Abstract

The National Defense Strategy has established as a guideline that the Armed Forces scale their assets from capabilities, following a tendency of the Armed Forces all around the world. Based on this determination, the Armed Forces Joint Staff has produced a capabilitybased force planning methodology, and in the next step the Armed Forces should develop their own process, independent but integrated to the Armed Forces Joint Staff’s. In this sense, the III Brazilian Marine Corps (BMC) Symposium, held in 2015, in the context of which BMC's long-term planning was developed, applied a methodology related to the concept of capacity planning, based on the well-established doctrine of the United States Marine Corps (USMC). It was envisaged the possibility of analyzing the processes carried out in order to identify the lessons learned. In this way, the purpose of this work is to compile the contributions that can be extracted from the III BMC Symposium for the development of a capability-based force planning methodology for Brazilian Navy (BN). To this end, firstly, as a theoretical basis, concepts related to capability and force planning and the methodologies used by the USMC, both at the time of the Symposium and the current one, are presented.Next, the methodology of the Armed Forces Joint Staff is presented, which should mark out the derived ones. Finally, the methodologies used in Brazilian Naval War College are discussed, being this the theoretical reference of the subject in the MB, and in the III BMC Symposium, from which it is intended to extract relevant teachings. Thus, in the context of the methodologies addressed, it was possible to identify contributions in three areas: concepts,methodology structuring and process conduction.