Military School of Cybersecurity and Social Intelligence
Military School of Cybersecurity and Social Intelligence
Democratic Sovereignty 5.0 — National Security from the Body-Territory
Understanding collective systems changes how we perceive National Security.
When we look at Brazil as a Body-Territory, each institution appears as part of a living network. Barracks, schools, universities, municipalities, research centers, health systems, digital networks, critical infrastructures, and communities form a distributed democratic organism.
The lens of Jiwasa helps us feel this.
Jiwasa is the “we” perceiving together.
It is the collective intelligence that emerges when different bodies, in different territories, learn to cooperate within roles, responsibilities, and competencies.
In the Armed Forces, this opens an important possibility: expanding collective perception while preserving institutional hierarchy.
Hierarchy organizes command, discipline, readiness, and execution.
Competence qualifies practical action.
Whoever understands a digital threat better must be heard.
Whoever masters network analysis helps read the informational environment.
Whoever knows data science supports decision-making.
Whoever understands social psychology helps interpret collective movements.
Whoever knows constitutional rights protects the legitimacy of action.
Thus, the institution gains dynamism while maintaining organization.
Military training for the twenty-first century
Classical military training prepared generations for discipline, command, physical readiness, logistics, strategy, territorial defense, and operations in critical situations.
These capacities remain central.
Now, territory also manifests itself in digital networks, data, algorithms, narratives, computational infrastructure, financial flows, cyberattacks, and collective emotional manipulation.
For this reason, a Military School of Cybersecurity and Social Intelligence must train military personnel capable of understanding:
network analysis;
data science;
cybersecurity;
artificial intelligence;
social psychology;
decolonial neuroscience;
informational warfare;
constitutional rights;
protection of critical infrastructures;
digital sovereignty;
public ethics;
strategic communication;
democratic culture.
This training allows military action to become more precise, preventive, and connected to the real threats of the twenty-first century.
Leaving colonial perception behind
Colonial perception teaches us to see the world through rigid blocks.
Center and periphery.
Command and obedience.
Elite and mass.
State and people.
Technology from outside and territory from inside.
This way of seeing reduces collective intelligence.
Democratic Sovereignty 5.0 proposes another foundation: studying collective movements with science and evidence, from the territory where life happens.
Brazil needs to understand its own patterns.
How adolescents are mobilized by social networks.
How disinformation campaigns gain strength.
How collective emotions spread.
How economic groups capture narratives.
How reputational attacks affect institutions.
How algorithms modulate belonging, fear, anger, and trust.
How communities perceive risks before central structures do.
How a local crisis can become a national threat.
This reading requires science, data, social neuroscience, anthropology, political science, cybersecurity, territorial intelligence, and respect for the Constitution.
Decolonial Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Cognitive Sovereignty
Social Intelligence in the twenty-first century requires an important scientific update.
Social Psychology has produced relevant knowledge about cooperation, leadership, identity, social influence, group formation, and collective behavior.
At the same time, a significant part of these theories was built in specific cultural contexts of Western Europe and North America, using urban, educated, industrialized, and highly individualized populations.
In recent decades, science itself has begun to discuss this phenomenon.
This debate became known through the literature on WEIRD populations: Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic.
Researchers have shown that many behaviors treated as universal may represent characteristics specific to particular cultures.
This observation has enormous importance for National Security.
When imported models guide the interpretation of Brazilian collective movements without proper territorial validation, distortions may appear in the reading of the Body-Territory.
Decolonial Neuroscience expands this reflection.
It proposes that we observe how belonging, cooperation, authority, identity, and trust emerge from real processes of human coexistence within territory.
Brazil emerges from thousands of years of Amerindian development, along with African, European, Asian, and Latin American contributions that formed one of the most complex societies on the planet.
For this reason, understanding Brazilian collective movements requires science also produced from Brazilian and Latin American reality.
Cognitive sovereignty depends on the capacity to produce knowledge about ourselves.
Body-Territory as the fundamental unit of the State
Decolonial Neuroscience proposes that the fundamental unit of the State is the Body-Territory.
The State stops being perceived only as an abstract legal structure.
It becomes perceived as the organization of the real needs of bodies living in a territory.
Food.
Water.
Energy.
Health.
Education.
Security.
Mobility.
Communication.
Culture.
Science.
All of this forms the metabolism of the Body-Territory.
National defense then begins to protect the conditions that allow collective life to continue.
Inclusive Clans and Exclusive Clans
Above the Body-Territory appear the Clans.
Clans represent natural human groupings.
They may be cultural, professional, religious, academic, sports-based, territorial, business-oriented, artistic, scientific, technological, or affective.
Inclusive Clans build bridges between different groups, favoring cooperation, circulation of ideas, knowledge sharing, and collective production.
Exclusive Clans express each individual’s peculiarity in participating in one or another set of belongings.
Here, the term “exclusive” represents the natural singularity of human paths.
Each person participates in their own combinations of belonging.
Some find strong emotional regulation in religious communities.
Others in scientific environments.
Others in sports groups.
Others in cultural traditions.
Others in artistic communities.
Others in professional networks.
Others in hybrid forms that cross different territories of coexistence.
These belongings are part of the natural dynamics of human systems.
The function of the Democratic Rule of Law is to create conditions for this diversity to flourish.
The State protects the common space.
Clans develop their identities.
The Constitution organizes coexistence.
The Body-Territory maintains unity.
This structure generates a more dynamic view of society.
Instead of classifying groups as right or wrong based on cultural or ideological preferences, we begin to observe how different forms of belonging contribute to territorial stability, collective creativity, and social cooperation.
The greater the variety of legitimate forms of belonging, the greater the resilience of the social system against radicalization, artificial polarization, influence operations, and attempts to fragment the territory.
Brazil’s strength is born from the capacity to remain united without requiring uniformity.
National sovereignty protects the common space.
Clans express diversity.
The Body-Territory maintains the continuity of collective life.
Jiwasa within hierarchy
Jiwasa qualifies leadership.
In complex systems, good leadership perceives where the necessary competence is for each situation.
In a digital operation, the network specialist may see first.
In an informational crisis, the communication analyst may perceive the pattern.
In a territorial emergency, the local community may feel first.
In a cyber threat, the technician may identify the initial signal.
In a strategic decision, command integrates everything.
This model preserves the chain of command and improves response.
Technical listening becomes more intelligent.
The final decision gains quality.
The institution begins to operate as a neural network: each part perceives, communicates, processes, and responds within its function.
Cybersecurity as defense of the Body-Territory
Brazil’s National Cybersecurity Strategy, established by Decree No. 12,573/2025, shows that Brazil already recognizes cybersecurity as a strategic dimension of the State.
This agenda must enter military training with strength.
Digital attacks can affect hospitals, energy, telecommunications, financial systems, schools, universities, city halls, and public services.
When a public system goes down, the Body-Territory feels it.
When data are kidnapped, collective trust suffers.
When critical infrastructure is attacked, sovereignty becomes urgent.
The Military School of Cybersecurity and Social Intelligence must train personnel capable of acting in partnership with civilian agencies, universities, research centers, strategic companies, and government structures.
Informational Warfare and Cognitive Defense
Informational warfare acts upon collective emotions.
It exploits fear, anger, humiliation, belonging, desire for recognition, and a sense of threat.
Network analysis allows us to identify coordinated campaigns, artificial amplification structures, influence operations, and reputational attacks.
Data science transforms dispersed signals into observable patterns.
Social psychology helps understand collective dynamics.
Decolonial Neuroscience expands this understanding by incorporating Body-Territory, belonging, cultural diversity, and Latin American realities.
This reduces the risk of interpreting Brazil exclusively through lenses produced for other historical contexts.
Cognitive defense then protects collective perceptual capacity.
The population remains free to think.
Democracy remains open to debate.
Sovereignty gains instruments to understand large-scale manipulation attempts.
Brazilian AI in military training
Brazil’s Artificial Intelligence Plan 2024–2028 provides for AI solutions to improve public services, social inclusion, high-performance infrastructure, and the development of advanced algorithms in Brazil.
This agenda points to the need for Brazil to be a producer of technology, not merely a consumer of foreign systems.
In military training, this means studying AI applied to:
detection of cyberattacks;
analysis of social networks;
protection of critical infrastructures;
strategic simulations;
intelligent logistics;
risk triage;
territorial monitoring;
decision support;
preservation of digital evidence;
identification of technological dependencies.
AI must support human decision-making, institutional auditing, and constitutional protection.
It increases the State’s perceptual capacity when it operates with transparency, control, data security, and democratic commitment.
Science, evidence, and sovereignty
FAPESC Public Call No. 60/2025 reinforces the connection between science, technology, sovereignty, and national defense, focusing on strategic technologies, training, and technical-scientific cooperation.
This type of initiative shows the path.
National defense must dialogue with universities, federal institutes, laboratories, researchers, engineers, data scientists, specialists in collective behavior, jurists, mental health professionals, educators, and communities.
Science expands the reach of hierarchy.
Evidence improves decisions.
Territory gives meaning to the mission.
The Constitution guarantees legitimacy.
Constitutional rights as defense technology
A Military School of Cybersecurity and Social Intelligence must place constitutional rights at the center of training.
Freedom of expression.
Privacy.
Due process.
Full defense.
Data protection.
Civilian control.
Transparency.
Public purpose.
These principles function as institutional technologies of democratic defense.
They prevent State protection from becoming abuse.
They also protect the Armed Forces themselves, keeping their action within legitimacy, public trust, and constitutional stability.
Conclusion
The Military School of Cybersecurity and Social Intelligence is born from the need to update the Armed Forces’ perception for the twenty-first century.
We live in a physical, digital, informational, economic, and ecological Body-Territory.
National defense needs to perceive all these layers.
Jiwasa shows us that collective intelligence grows when each part contributes its competence.
Hierarchy organizes.
Science qualifies.
Technology expands.
The Constitution legitimizes.
Territory guides.
Decolonial Neuroscience protects cognitive sovereignty by reminding us that Brazil needs to study its own collective movements from its own historical, cultural, and territorial reality.
With this training, the Armed Forces can act with more dynamism, precision, and democratic integration.
We stop seeing the world through colonial lenses and begin to study collective movements with science, evidence, and belonging.
Thus, National Security stops being only a reaction to danger.
It becomes the collective capacity to perceive, care for, and protect the Brazil that we are.
References
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Brazilian Federal Government. Brazilian Artificial Intelligence Plan 2024–2028.
FAPESC. Public Call No. 60/2025 — Program to Stimulate Technologies of Interest for National Sovereignty and Defense.
FAPESC. Final Result of Public Call No. 60/2025 — Technologies of Interest for National Sovereignty and Defense.
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