Abstract
The Joint Planning Process of the Brazilian Ministry of Defense comprises the elaboration of possible courses of action (COA) to be adopted in a joint operation. The Commander, advised by his General Staff, assesses each COA and selects subjectively the one that best meets the mission statement. Such decision-making process has no simulation tool to assist the Commander and his General Staff in confronting their own COA with possible enemy COAs. We analyzed how the Brazilian Ministry of Defense (MD) codifies knowledge in such simulated confrontation, their structures and the knowledge flow. Starting with the information from MD doctrines, we structured the explicit knowledge in models and diagrams, which describe business processes, taxonomies, conceptual maps, and mental maps. Understanding the knowledge creation process increases the efficiency of an operation, while reduces confrontation errors, minimizing revision efforts and optimizing the use of the operational capabilities of the Armed Forces.
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