Operações de informação na Marinha do Brasil: uma contribuição teórica e possibilidades de emprego

Abstract

This dissertation proposes to study the Information Operations. For this, it begins investigating the relationship between Information Operations and the conflict, in order to achieve its first objective, which is identify the importance of the referred activity in the current wars, thus exposing its relevance. In this way, some conflict’s relevant aspects will be evaluated, such as their origins, conditions and prerequisites. This will allow understand better the relationship and the inevitability between conflict and society. In this context, it will be noted the historical interactions between them, which will allow us to point out how this symbiosis occurs, and how it caused the form of confrontation that is shown today. Consequently, this project will deepen in the generations of the war, culminating in the current modus operandi of the conflict, recognizing the impact of information in the current scenario and, therefore, highlighting the value of Information Operations. The work moves forward looking at the concept of unrestricted warfare, a methodology that proves itself as capable form of confronting in the current generation of war. In this conjuncture of miscegenation of the civil and military borders to achieve victory, the search for the second and last objective begins, which is to ascertain the scope and systematics of Information Operations at the Brazilian and international levels, in order to identify doctrinal opportunities of procedures and employment. For this, the methodology and definitions of Information Operations used in the Brazilian Armed Forces were approached, analyzing, in the process, their theory, organization and structuring components. And the research examined how the effective applicability of this activity in the USA, NATO and Russia is thought and realized, as a capable tool in conflict resolution. Thus, some opportunities were debugged, worthy of use or further study. That is to say, by means of a coherent research, within the scientific process of qualitative and bibliographic nature, the relevance of Information Operations was verified. Besides the research showed how Information Operations are presented in terms of execution and possibilities oriented to the current Zeitgeist. Ignore these conclusions would be to make an error similar to blindly trusting that a cavalry, armed only with its shining horses and armor, would be sufficient to succeed on a battlefield against automatic firearms