فصلنامه راهبرد دفاعی
پیاپی 15 (بهار 1386)

Defense is one of the main concerns of all governments. In a word, against the threats aiming their power and security indicators, countries are trying to achieve mechanisms to improve their defense power and be capable of repelling the threats.Spatial planning is one of the methods, which states put at their agenda for achieving a more secure situation and decreasing vulnerability in case of any probable attack.In this article, after providing theoretical debates about spatial planning and expressing its background in Iran, the importance of paying attention to defense- security considerations resulting from spatial planning in national planning is described.

This article considers the nature and process of weapons and equipments procurement in some countries of the world. In the process of determining operational requirements and needs in the United States armed forces, two principal and important documents, mission requirement statement and operational requirements document will be produced. Determining the operational requirements and needs is one the support systems for decision, which is in a close interaction with other supporting systems for decision (procurement system and planning, program and budget system) and along with science and technology, address these needs.Studying this issue in United Kingdom and Germany shows that to determine operational requirements, the approach of obligation-to-capability and capability-to-operational requirements is used and the operational requirements determining system in UK ministry of defense is concentrated and in Germany's ministry of defense is unconcentrated.In this the exploratory studies as process to achieve an appropriate pattern for countries weapons and equipment procurement system is considered.

Countries have different instruments and methods toward establishing their security. One of these methods is the acquisition of modern and effective equipments. Therefore defense preparation and procurement is the concern of most statesmen.In this writing, it has been tried to compare the mechanism of the defense acquisition systems of France, Germany, United Kingdom and the United States. The finding of this research shows that comparing to Germany and United Kingdom, United States and France are less interested in foreign equipment procurements. In all of these four countries, using competition as an instrument to protect the concept of "Value for money" is emphasized.

Although softwarism is one of the instruments for countries to provide national interests, but studies shows that America's use of this instrument in Middle East was always overshadowed by strategic-security considerations resulted in international and regional environment.In this article, after presenting stories about softwarism, the writer examined the change trend of America's interests in Middle East and then paid attention to historical trend of softwarism in America's foreign policy.The findings of this writing shows that, America's foreign policy in Middle East has strategic and hardware characteristics than software characteristics.

he idea of good governance as a theoretical framework about management came into existence in 1990s and is used by theorists in different areas. In this article, to find out the role and position of good governance idea within the framework of EU, along with cursory examination of the dimensions and important elements of good governance, the function of this union to compile joint security strategy, specially the strategy of confronting WMD proliferation, is considered and then the lessons which developing countries can get in this field are implied.