Brazilian national defence policy and strategy reviewed as a unity

Abstract

Abstract This article reviews Brazil's capstone directives for defence: the Política Nacional de Defesa (National Defence Policy) and the Estratégia Nacional de Defesa (National Defence Strategy). It presents an overview of their contents and discusses how they might be read by polities or agencies through the lenses of Strategic Studies and Public Policy of Science, Technology, and Innovation.

Keywords

• Armed Forces
• Brazil
• Defence Policy
• Science Technology and Innovation
• Strategic Studies
• Strategy