آیندهپژوهی دفاعی (Sep 2016)
Pattern specifications for threats of battlefield in future wars on Islamic Republic of Iran in 1404
Abstract
Regarding the current threats against the interests of I.R. of Iran, passive action and lack of planning for future and future studies in this area is very dangerous and illogical; thus, this kind of thought causes problems such as creating serious obstacles in the course of building organizational culture consistent with future, focusing merely on desirables, not identifying the needs of future and finally lagging behind from the enemies and rivals. Therefore, there is need for a pattern of threats in future battlefields. This study has qualitative and quantitative approach. In qualitative approach, according to data-based theory, data collection has been conducted through interviews, relevant document examination and theorizing on systematic approach in three main steps of open coding, axis coding and selective coding. the interview was done with 12 experts; and the results and the collected data were used in document content analysis. The obtained results were organized in form of dimension (category) and six themes (propositions) and position and relation of each of the themes were determined in the form of paradigm models and six relevant propositions were derived. Then, to assess the validity of the model and to approve it, the survey was conducted using 84 questionnaires which were sent to the experts and specialists; however, only 43 of the questionnaires were completed and received from which 37 were finally used. Six categories consist of psychological factors to threats, social and cultural factors to threats, economic factors to threats, military factors to threats- causative conditions: the US government as the biggest regional threat, arrogant regimes as the biggest world threats, state terrorism with centrality of Zionist and Saudi Arabia’s governments-background and context; which were considered as transaction and action strategies in this study and finally resulted in consequence. Therefore, the pattern of threats of qualitative research has been presented on data-based technique and paradigm model.
