A governança das Forças Armadas e sua autonomia de gestão no âmbito do Ministério da Defesa

Abstract

In the context of improving the Federal Public Administration, in 1999, the Ministry of Defense (MD) was created, which, in carrying out its constitutional mission, assumes an intermediary role between the Armed Forces and society, and has the subordination of the Navy, the Army and the Air Force. In this intermediate activity, the MD has a peculiar relationship with the Commands of the Forces, where the borderline of their performance are delimited by the understanding of governance and management, guiding their reach. Thus, the objective of this study was to analyze how the autonomy of the administrative management of the Forces Commands is established in view the attributions of the MD, considering their organizational subordinations. Recent deliberations by the Federal Audit Court (TCU) deserve special attention, referring to the MD actions of an administrative nature that, inicially, would be limited to the administrative management of the Commands of the Forces. This article was based on applied, qualitative, descriptive and exploratory research, using bibliographic and documentary sources, and exposes the autonomy of administrative management that the Armed Forces Commands have view the duties of the Ministry of Defense, as well as concludes that the permanent institutional approach, with TCU, is presented as salutary in order to shed light on the shadow points that may remain cloudy for the understanding in the scope of the TCU.