As forças de operações especiais brasileiras e a guerra irregular do Século XXI

Abstract

Brazil, as a regional power, occupies a strategic position in South America and exerts natural leadership in the region. Thus, to preserve national interests, the country must have a compatible defense with this magnitude. The issue of defense and security in South America is paradoxical, as it stands out for the absence of formal wars, but with serious crime problems. This paradox results not in border problems (defense) but in problems "at" the border (security). “New threats”, formed by the symbiosis between organized crime, guerrillas, terrorist actions and hybrid and asymmetric threats, guided the doctrinal restructuring of military apparatus around the world. In the region, non-state violence leads to reflection on the country's capabilities to confront agents capable of perpetrating criminal actions or even conflicts that threaten the Expressions of National Power. The National Defense Policy indicates a tendency for the emergence of insurgent groups and terrorist or criminal organizations that tend to develop irregular warfare, due to an international environment characterized by power asymmetry, generating tensions and instabilities. The objective of the research was to verify the capabilities of the Brazilian Special Operations Forces to act in a possible scenario of irregular warfare, in the regional environment of Brazil, in view of the interaction between non-state actors and criminal groups. In order to contribute to the conclusion of this paper, deductive and qualitative scientific methodology was used, as well as descriptive, documentary and bibliographic research techniques, characterizing the present paper as a methodological basis for future studies on the subject. In the end, it was concluded that the Brazilian Special Operations Forces are capable of operating in complex scenarios of crisis, conflict or war involving guerrillas, terrorism or hybrid or asymmetric warfares