DEFENSE STRATEGY
Year:2013 | Volume:10 | Issue:40|Papers Count:7

From the past, country’s defense strategy pattern was consistent with the environmental changes based on historical and traditional or threat-centric strategies. In other words, defense planning and empowerment was based on actual and potential threats model; so that it has severely affected the equipment preparedness and even the structure of the defense organization. The issue that to what extent these strategies are able to meet the needs of national defense in future battlefield heterogeneous conditions is the most important issue facing the defense system. This paper aims to identify the common patterns of national defense strategy and to provide a model consistent with accepted literature of the Islamic Revolution’s values. In this context, given the threats’ heterogeneity conditions, the main question is that what kind of accepted strategic pattern can develop and expand the national system’s level of accountability toward security-defense threats? Through theoretical explanation and logical reasoning, with a comparative study of four defense systems including race-based, capability-based, threat-based and trauma-based strategies, the author tried to reveal component of the pattern, and then to expand the ideas about it.

Defense diplomacy, is a new concept in the strategic literature. Although such a concept has never been applied in traditional strategic and military literature, the mechanisms needed for applying power through diplomacy was always existed. Now, issues like power, defense, security, deterrence and regionalism are notions that have a close relation with defense diplomacy. The need for security in high security risk countries requires a variety of mechanisms for eliminating the threats. It should be noted that the mutual threat approach is important because it could provide the necessary context for cognitive deterrence. Defense diplomacy has the potential to segregate the boundaries between defense, deterrence and aggressive pattern.

The existence of ethnic groups in Islamic Republic of Iran is an opportunity to strengthen Iranian social values. Social changes within the country after the war have faced the ethnic community with certain expectations to deal with the enemy’s threats. This study aimed to identify the ethnic community situation and the amount of their integration with the government against enemy threats, by the approach of using ethnical diversity as an opportunity.The findings of the research (based on scientific evidence and survey methodology) from Azeris, Kurds, Arabs and Baluchi ethnic groups have contradicted this misconception that ethnic community is divergent and doesn’t cooperate and interact with country’s macro-level management, and emphasizes their readiness to deal with the enemies. At the same time, the study suggests that the position of each ethnic group and the amount of their desire to participate in the integration with the government is different. This article is part of the research results which has done about the ethnic groups in the second half of 1389 and first half of 1390 in nation-wide and its analyses and reports have been finalized at the beginning of 1391.

Islamic Republic of Iran is faced with several strategic threats, and because of the presence of trans-regional and interfering powers in their follower systems has to design different management systems. Meanwhile, the Persian Gulf is a region that has strategic value to Iran, and also is the centre of hostile and interfering powers’ threats against this country. In this regard, to deal with these threats, Iran requires control systems including regional deterrence system. This system will be under the effect of the variables of Persian Gulf’s regional System and its logical and physical model will be shaped based on such variables. Along with examining the theoretical foundations of deterrence and providing an analytical study of regional deterrence, the research has tried to examine the characteristics of security and strategic environment of the Persian Gulf systems and finally design I.R Iran’s regional deterrence model in such an environment. The authors speculate that triangular and network deterrence models are the efficient models in Iran's defense strategy.

Social network of Warriors, is the basic ring in knowledge-based social network in public domains, and is the underlying cause of knowledge management systems in the armed forces. By problem-based researches, this study tries to put the information systems necessary to social network of warriors on the agenda, using the methodological approach. In this study, it has been looked to this problem from a technical-social perspective, and its theoretical framework has been established, based on different approaches and orientations. In addition to the theoretical bases, numerous empirical evidences have been gathered according to the measures taken in field studies. By compiling theoretical bases and empirical evidence, this research has been presented in the form of information system design. Describing the characteristics and capabilities of this information system, which are the answers to the research problem, is the main objective of this research.

The main goal of this research is to formulate macro goals, policies and strategies for developing physical education and sports in I.R. Iran’s armed forces. In order to achieve this goal, after examining the current situation, doing qualitative interviews and a comparative study on selected countries (10 countries), it has been tried to determine a preliminary list of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of physical education in the armed forces. Investigations showed that physical education in a strategic offensive position in the armed forces. In the next stage, the strategies for expanding physical education in the armed forces were developed. Main objectives developed in this regard were; scientific and practical strength and development of physical fitness, body skills and sports skills in order to achieve proper level of determined indicators, promoting championships in the armed forces, in order to achieve higher ranks in internal and external competitions (CISM) specially, in practical sports, strengthening and promoting “sports for all” in the armed forces, and strengthening and promoting “sports for all” and championship sports in Basij.