Why and How of the Integration of Armed Force's Intelligence Organizations Against Enemies

Armed forces have the responsibility for defending the national sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity, against foreigners. And they are the main references for maintaining national security in terms of military deterrence, productivity and powerfulness, and also against enemy invasion. Due to the importance and sensitivity of the armed forces’ missions in enemie's eyes, place and structure of intelligence organizations in armed forces is of a great importance. Therefore integration of such organizations seems vital. The purpose of this article is to answer the question that; why and how is the integration of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran's intelligence organization against the enemy? Using descriptive and analytical methodology and library techniques and documents, interviews and opinions of experts, this paper tries to shed light on why and how to integrate armed forces’ intelligence organizations and also damage associated with it. It was concluded that integration decreases threats and increases opportunities by creating a common culture of cooperation, understanding priorities and allocating key resources to them, decreasing parallel operations, reducing the national costs, successful peers intelligence, information–security deterrence, intelligence, promotes the feeling of organizational exhilaration and protect security agencies against shock and surprise attacks and crisis and reduces the possible threats.