DT19 | Net Assessment: a tool for national defense, a matter concerning power

In an increasingly changing, uncertain, volatile, ambiguous, and disruptive international scenario, additionally characterized by the exponential development of knowledge and technology at an unprecedented speed and pace in human history, it is more necessary than ever to have practices that ensure national defense capabilities to face the risks, threats, and opportunities that may affect it in the future. In doing so, it is vital to identify one’s own mistakes and weaknesses, as well as, with the same enthusiasm and rigor, the strengths, always in relation to potential threats and adversaries. One of the tools to evaluate the above, independently within the ministries of Defense, is the Net Assessment (NETA), understood as “comprehensive assessment.”

Thus, the objective of this work is to identify what strategic problem is pressing today in the current global context; what the Net Assessment is, its constitutive elements, its essence, as well as how this tool can assist and cooperate in the development of an effective strategy to enhance national power; and, finally, to establish a proposal as a recommendation.