Abstract
Since the National Defense Strategy (NDS) publication, the Brazilian Army has sought to respond to the challenges of raising its standards to those of the Knowledge Age. BRAÇO FORTE Strategy, PROFORÇA, and the Army's Strategic Projects are examples of necessary steps towards the desired military change. However, does the Army's concept of Transformation express an understanding of Military Transformation, or does it fall into the trap of technological determinism? Our hypothesis states that possible failures of the Army's Force Project are a product of a reductionist understanding of Transformation. Despite using the term Transformation, the assumptions that support the Army's Transformation process predominantly imply improving what it already does. Excepting projects such as Cyber Defense, SISFRON, and ASTROS 2020, modernization is more present than Transformation as military change. The paper used a Case Study research design methodology. Qualitative sources such as documents from the Ministry of Defense and the Brazilian Army were analyzed using a document analysis strategy named internal comparison criteria.
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