Aeronáutica, Força Aérea ou Comando da Aeronáutica?

This article’s purpose is to investigate the correlation between the words Aeronautics, Air Force and Aeronautics Command, their use in the institution’s documents and how their meaning affects the concepts of Politics, Strategy and Planning. It is possible to verify, in many aspects, that the press, scholars in the academic field and even the military personnel of the Air Force use those words as they have similar meaning independently of the context. To verify this fact, the investigation will use the inductive method, whose main means of investigation where the bibliographic and documentary research. At the end of the research was possible to notice that even though these words are used as synonymous their real meaning varies, changing the context of public papers, showing that it is mandatory to adequate their use to its real meaning.