The Brazilian Armed Forces have had a prominent role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We take this participation as an entry point to confront traditional assumptions of studies on civil-military relations and militarization, investigating a particular claim used to justify the mobilization of the Brazilian military in health-related activities: their credentials in a managerial expertise in logistics. In doing so, we argue that there is an ongoing re-articulation in the discursive regime used to justify their expansion of roles—not one anchored on the efficiency in the use of violence associated with a “war ethos” specific to the military professional, but another, grounded on a managerial expertise to efficiently procure, manage and distribute resources across the national territory, especially in contexts of “crisis.” We claim that the historical transformation of such discourse is a particular expression of global processes that have historically vested “managerial expertise” with political authority to solve social problems in critical situations. We also contend that this managerial dimension has been largely neglected in the critique of militarization articulated in traditional and contemporary civil–military relations studies. In light of these processes, this article seeks to contribute to critical work regarding the conditions for and effects of the expansion of military roles under the regime of justification here analyzed, thereby stimulating us to rethink the assumptions upon which militarization can be problematized in the contemporary period.

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管理军事化存在问题：在巴西 COVID-19 大流行中声称拥有军事后勤专业知识

巴西武装部队在应对 COVID-19 大流行中发挥了突出作用。我们以这次参与为切入点，面对军民关系和军事化研究的传统假设，调查用于证明动员巴西军队参与卫生相关活动合理性的特定主张：他们在后勤管理专业知识方面的资历。在这样做的过程中，我们认为，用于证明其角色扩张合理性的话语制度正在不断重新阐明，而不是基于与军事专业人员特有的“战争精神”相关的暴力使用效率，但另一个是以管理专业知识为基础，在全国范围内有效地采购、管理和分配资源，特别是在“危机”背景下。我们认为，这种话语的历史性转变是全球进程的一种特殊表达，历史上赋予“管理专业知识”以政治权威，以解决危急情况下的社会问题。我们还认为，在传统和当代军民关系研究中阐述的军事化批判中，这一管理维度在很大程度上被忽视了。鉴于这些过程，本文力图就本文所分析的正当化制度下军事作用扩大的条件和影响做出关键性的工作，从而促使我们重新思考当代军事化可能出现问题的假设。时期。