scholarly journals PODER AEROESPACIAL E A ESTRATÉGIA NACIONAL DE DEFESA (END)

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (67) ◽  
pp. 83-97
Author(s):  
Ivan Muniz de Mesquita
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Defense Industry ◽  
Military Power ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Institutional Mission ◽  
Aerial Surveillance ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Defense Strategy ◽  
National Power

Este artigo tem por objetivo evidenciar os fundamentos do Poder Aeroespacial e identificar as principais atribuições da Força Aérea Brasileira estabelecidas na Estratégia Nacional de Defesa (END). O autor traz a lume aspectos doutrinários do Poder Aéreo, ou Poder Aeroespacial, bem como a sua importância como projeção do poder militar, uma das expressões do poder nacional, como preconizado na doutrina da Escola Superior de Guerra. A Estratégia Nacional de Defesa (END) é analisada em seus aspectos mais relevantes, destacando-se os seus três eixos estruturantes, que tratam, respectivamente, da: reorganização das Forças Armadas; da reorganização da indústria nacional de defesa e da composição dos efetivos das Forças Armadas. O autor evidencia as atribuições da Força Aérea Brasileira previstas no referido documento, que em síntese são as seguintes: prioridade da vigilância aérea; poder para assegurar a superioridade aérea local; capacidade para levar o combate a pontos específicos do território nacional; e domínio do potencial aeroestratégico. Assim, com vistas a dar cumprimento à sua missão institucional, o Comando da Aeronáutica elaborou o Plano Estratégico Militar da Aeronáutica (PEMAER), bem como o Projeto “Força Aérea 100”, o qual contém as diretrizes necessárias para orientar o futuro da Força Aérea Brasileira (FAB) nas próximas décadas.   This article aims to highlight the fundamentals of Aerospace Power and to identify the main attributions of the Brazilian Air Force established in the National Defense Strategy (NDS). The author brings to light doctrinal aspects of Air Power, or Aerospace Power, as well as its importance as a projection of military power, one of the expressions of national power, as prescribed in the doctrine of the Brazilian War College. The National Defense Strategy is analyzed in its most relevant aspects, highlighting its three structuring point facets, which deal respectively with: reorganization of the Armed Forces; the reorganization of the national defense industry; and the composition of the Armed Forces personnel. The author highlights the attributions of the Brazilian Air Force provided in the aforementioned document, which in summary are the following: priority of aerial surveillance; power to ensure local air superiority; ability to take combat to specific points in the national territory; and controlling of the strategic aviation potential. Thus, in order to fulfill its institutional mission, the Aeronautics Command elaborated the Aeronautical Military Strategic Plan (PEMAER- acronym in Portuguese), as well as the “Air Force 100” Project, which contains the necessary plans to guide the future of the Air Force (FAB) in the coming decades. Este artículo tiene por objetivo evidenciar los fundamentos del Poder Aeroespacial e identificar las principales atribuciones de la Fuerza Aérea Brasileña establecidas en la Estrategia Nacional de Defensa (END). El autor trae a la luz aspectos doctrinarios del Poder Aéreo, el Poder Aeroespacial, así como su importancia como proyección del poder militar, una de las expresiones del poder nacional, como preconizado en la doctrina de la Escuela Superior de Guerra. La Estrategia Nacional de Defensa (END) se analiza en sus aspectos más relevantes, destacándose sus tres ejes estructurantes, que tratan, respectivamente, de la: reorganización de las Fuerzas Armadas; de la Reorganización de la industria nacional de defensa y de la composición de los efectivos de las Fuerzas Armadas. El autor evidencia las atribuciones de la Fuerza Aérea Brasileña previstas en dicho documento, que en síntesis son las siguientes: prioridad de la vigilancia aérea; poder para asegurar la superioridad aérea local; capacidad para llevar el combate a puntos específicos del territorio nacional; dominio del potencial aeroespacial. El Comando de la Aeronáutica elaboró el Plan Estratégico Militar de la Aeronáutica (PEMAER), así como el Proyecto “Fuerza Aérea 100”, que contiene las directrices necesarias para orientar el futuro de la Fuerza Aérea Brasileña (FAB) en las próximas décadas.    

The Demilitarization of Germany, 1945–2010

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Lockenour
Keyword(s):  
Security Policy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
German Society ◽  
Great Difficulty ◽  
Military Power ◽  
Defense Strategy ◽  
Berlin Republic ◽  
Military Budget

This chapter argues that the Berlin Republic remains demilitarized in significant ways, despite maintaining its armed forces and deploying those forces into combat. Germany's security policy is based on multilateralism, a preference for non-military instruments of diplomacy, and a defense strategy based in equal measure on deterrence and reassurance. Germany wields military power only with great difficulty, as seen in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. Germany's military budget and its armed forces are also shrinking. Only at the margins of German society could one claim to encounter strains of a classical militarism or the glorification of military values. Because the lessons of Germany's past coincide with trends in the European environment to stigmatize large-scale violence, it is reasonable to see Germany moving toward a lasting demilitarization.

The Objective of Air Warfare

2019 ◽  
pp. 46-86
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Surface Forces ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
The Will ◽  
Principles Of War

In this chapter three lectures are presented. Muir Fairchild, in “Air Power and Air Warfare,” emphasizes the need for an air force in being at the outset of war. In “Principles of War,” Donald Wilson argues that instead of seeking out immutable principles, the study of war should focus on linking the desired ends to the available means. The true objective of war is not the defeat of the enemy’s armed forces in battle but the overall defeat of the enemy nation such that it sues for peace on favorable terms. Air power is best suited for achieving this objective through massed offensive action. Haywood Hansell, in “The Aim in War,” reasons that war is the means for a nation to achieve its objectives by overcoming the will of the enemy nation’s population. The airplane, unlike surface forces, can directly strike the nation’s will without having to first defeat the enemy’s military forces.

scholarly journals Airpower in Counterinsurgency: Analysis of the Nigerian Air Force’s Response to The Boko Haram Insurgency in the Northeast

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 302-310
Author(s):  
DR. JOHN ANYABE ADAMS ◽  
EFEFIONG ASUQUO EDET ◽  
MICHAEL R. ITAM
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Spare Parts ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Joint Task

This paper examined the role of airpower in counterinsurgency with particular focus on analyzing the Nigerian Air Force’s response to the Boko Haram insurgency in the north-east. The paper adopted the documentary method and sourced data from mainly secondary sources. The Nigeria Air Force ’s operations against the insurgent group commenced in 2010, as part of the armed forces operations within the purview of the Joint Task Force. It was found out that in spite of the significant contribution made by the Nigeria Air Force , there still are challenges to Nigeria Air Force ’s counterinsurgency efforts. Firstly, Nigeria Air Force faces logistical problems such as a dearth of spare parts, shortage of precision-guided ammunition, and inadequate trained personnel that can operate and maintain sophisticated war weapons. Secondly, there is a paucity of systems to initiate and maintain a systematic kill-chain that will encompass searching for the adversary, maintaining intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance presence over them, and subduing them and obtaining data for purposes of analysis. It was recommended, among others that for the Nigeria Air Force to be more effective in the northeast operations, there should be increased spending on purchasing more modern platforms and weaponry that are pliable in contemporary air power considerations.  

scholarly journals The strategic planning of the National Power: a vision from the National Defense

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Ronaldo G Carmona
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
National Development ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Planning System ◽  
National Strategy ◽  
National Defense ◽  
National Planning ◽  
Key Points ◽  
National Power

The key elements of national power is a recurring theme in the debate on international relations, appearing in classical writers such as Morgenthau and Kenneth Walt. In Brazil, the theme of the elements of National Power was formulated mainly within the scope of the Brazilian War College (ESG). The following text seeks, firstly, to introduce the reader into the planning system structured by the Brazilian State as of the 1930 Revolution. Next, he specifically addresses the geopolitical contribution to this debate for a third and last part, to discuss the evolution of Brazilian Defense policies and strategies, relating them to the debate on national construction and the national development project. In this last part, the article is aimed at identifying and discussing the main vectors that show changes in the Brazilian national strategy observed from the key points of the main official documents. It is, therefore, a work that seeks to discuss, essentially, the contribution of the Brazilian Armed Forces to the national planning system, demonstrating how this participation has been decisive in the construction of the Nation.

Maximum Security

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1-2020) ◽  
pp. 71-84
Author(s):  
Margo Okazawa-Rey ◽  
Gwyn Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Air Force ◽  
International Security ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Prison System ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Latina Women ◽  
Physical Force ◽  
Maximum Security ◽  
Class Youth

Okazawa-Rey and Kirk argue that the term maximum security, used in the context of the prison system, is an oxymoron. Jails, prisons, and other ‘correctional’ facilities provide no real security for communities, guards and other prison officials, or inmates. Imprisoning two million people, building more prisons, identifying poor and working-class youth of colour as ‘gang members,’ and criminalizing poor Black and Latina women does not increase security. Rather, the idea of security must be redefined in sharp contrast to everyday notions of personal security that are based on the protection of material possessions by locks and physical force, as well as prevailing definitions of national and international security based on a militarization that includes the police, border patrols, and armed forces such as the Navy, Army, Marines, and Air Force. To achieve genuine security, we must address the major sources of insecurity: economic, social, and political inequalities among and within nations and communities. The continual objectification of ‘others’ is a central mechanism underlying systems of oppression—and insecurity—based on class, race, gender, nation, and other significant lines of difference.

National Defense Strategy

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARMY AVIATION CENTER AND FORT RUCKER AL
Keyword(s):  
National Defense ◽  
Defense Strategy

Defensive Deterrence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yishai Beer
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Practical Problem ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Defense Strategy ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
The Law ◽  
Compliance With The Law ◽  
The Military

This chapter deals with the lack of coherency between strategic reality—which uses deterrence as an essential strategic tool—and the prevailing law. Deterrence is a tool for enforcing compliance with the law; it promotes the containment of potential conflicts. It is pivotal in strategic thinking and, in many cases, an essential component of the national-defense strategy of law-abiding states. But although deterrence is central to the management of global security, in current international law deterrence considerations are perceived with suspicion and mistrust. It is perceived as an unlawful punitive measure. The lack of consensus on lawful deterrence, however, might create a vacuum that invites aggressors and transgressors. This chapter offers normative suggestions for introducing defensive deterrence and overcoming the practical problem of putting it into practice within the current contours of the law, by using the military professionalism criterion.

The Germans and Air Power at Dieppe: The Raid and its Lessons from the ‘Other Side of the Hill’

2021 ◽  
pp. 096834452199586
Author(s):  
James Shelley
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
The Other ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Coastal Defence ◽  
German Armed Forces ◽  
Popular Interest ◽  
The Hill

Despite the vast academic and popular interest in the Dieppe raid of 19 August 1942, there remains a curious oversight of the German side of the story. This contribution interrogates German sources in order to explore the Dieppe air battle and its consequences from the perspective of the German armed forces. The paper ultimately demonstrates that the Germans learnt much about the role of air power in coastal defence from their experiences at Dieppe, but that the implementation of those lessons was lacking.

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