Multidimensional Security and the militaries, a wrong approach to solve it

Resumo

The article takes an overview about the concept of Multidimensional Security and the implications addressed to the Armed Forces. So, it refers to how the meaning of Security has been widening through time since World War II, the Declaration on Security in the Americas, which are the military core tasks and how the military forces are affected by this conceptualization of Security. The article presents an evaluation on how military forces should be conducted and what should be their roles in Multidimensional Security, and finally it discusses some concerns on the employment of military forces to address Multidimensional Security.