فصلنامه علوم و فنون نظامی
پیاپی 27 (بهار 1393)

Being highly significant in military field and national security of all nations, logistics mainly involves the management of physical distribution systems, which is inextricably linked to military operations and is identified as a branch of [military] administration. However, defining, setting areas and applications of them:“Logistics” and “Supply Chain Management” have been a hot area of controversy among the stakeholders. An agreed-upon definition requires interactions among the stakeholders especially the military ones. In line with this trend, some scholars have tried to elaborate the applied nature and activities included in each term from management and hierarchical relationship. This study asked the participants to answer three basic research questions addressing the definitions, nature, and the mutual relationships between the terms. Analysis of the data revealed that the terms are not much distinct as they are overlapping depending on their definition/s favored by the respective organization. However, logistics necessarily refers to transportation of goods and materials but no reference to information transfer. Meanwhile, definition of supply chain implies that logistics is realized within it in several situations. Moreover, supply chain includes a logistic process while the profession of logistics refers to planning for, implementation, and control of goods and services. The common core of all these is that this notion ultimately refers to a process of planning, control, storage of goods and services from the original sources to the consumers according to the latter’s requirements.

In today’s world, planning is one of the tools for the preparation of geographical environment. In other words, principled planning is a type of thought about the economical, political, defense, social and cultural problems and it certainly has a provident orientation and deeply considers the relation between objectives and comprehensive decisions. It strongly has to be comprehensive regarding the policy and program. The base of any spatial planning is the rule of a management du territory. The actions which are necessary for military defense and preparedness for safeguarding the people at the time of military conflicts, require great demands of space. These expectations have to be paid attention and coordinated. Thus, considering the requirements of civil and military defense in effective spatial measures and actions have been emphasized as an evident issue. Therefore, it is common sense to take the path that ends to this aim and create conditions that lead us to it. This is made possible only by paying attention to the security-defense considerations in positioning. The aim of amanagement du territoire in relation to defense is the establishment of military units in a given position for the purpose of maximum defense and minimum vulnerability. Since the Islamic Republic of Iran constitution has given the duty of protecting vital assets and territorial defense to the Armed Forces and moreover, the meeting of defense and military aims and timely response to the threats according to the principles are some of their main.

Military education is an important and considerable issue and one of the main concern of commanders and those responsible for training in IRI army. The aim of this paper is the inspection of military education concepts, manners, preventives and effective factors in battalion commander's view in Imam Ali(as) Military Officer University. Therefore, this paper is a qualitative research which takes advantage of data-based theory qualitative strategy. Eleven commanders with more relative experiences in the field, have been chosen as primary samples. Firstly, they have been interviewed and then their interview's contexts are written in this paper and registered as main information. The analysis of that information is performed based on complete study on interview's contexts. After extracting the primary concepts, the SCHTRVOS – CORBIN approach has been used to design an acceptable model.As a result, the military education in commander's view is described as changing of continuous behavior based on worthiness, soul and body nurture that is consequences to rise up the physical ability and knowledge level, environmental compatibility, sociability, obedience and undertaking by educating a military person.Finally, the approaches, preventatives and effective factors in military education are presented by an admissible model.

Self-mutilation and suicide statistics in the I.R.I army compared to armies in the world and other parts of the society is not significant and does not constitute a bad record. Humans are the main assets of the organizations and communities, and knowing that even one person is too much for our community and current rise of suicide in society make the issue important and it is considered one of the top ten causes of death in the world. Relevent Organization in all countries try to control it. This article aims to examine the role of external factors in suicidal acts of soldiers military units in army bases. Authors try to illuminate those causes and by information gathered by means of field and library and qualitative and quantitative analysis of the situation in military units in 1392 show some ways to reduce them in the army. In this study, we have tried to analyze the impact of external factors (economic problems, cultural factors, and abnormal psychology (depression, social disorder, family problems) which are the source of many of the suicide attempts in I.R.I Army. The overall conclusion of the study indicates that the component external factors in the independent variable on the dependent variable, self-mutilation and suicide of soldiers had a good effect and finally the corresponding suggestion for reducing crime are presented.

In recent years science management has been attended as a crucial topic. Both of Scientific and economic society bieleve that organizations are able to keep their permanent priority in competitive fields just by new science. In fact, in this area with such a huge evolusion and unstable invironmental condition organizations which came up with novel ideas are successful. They should properly organize the knowledge and extend it in it’s substructure and use it in tecnology, products and services. In this paper, the correlation between extant loops of management cycle in the university of “Elm o sanat” has been investigated. Investigation has been done by 4 loop “jashpara” model as the science cycle management with 3 hypothesis and one question. The result shows that 36 percent of science novelty variation has expressed by scientific organization. Transition knowledge factor effects on science creation. About 41 percent of science creation variation present by Transition knowledge factor. science creation depend on science operation that 56 percent of them relate by science creation that allocate the major part.

Maintaining internal order and protecting the country against foreign invasion is the most important function of the armed forces of any country. These forces should represent such an order within their organization that are promising for the community, but these words does not mean that the internal discipline of the armed forces must be hidden under the guise of appearance order. Therefore, maintaining the appearance order and continuous studying the causes of organizational culture defects of the forces should be a top priority in the Researches in Armed Forces. This research is based on the theory of "discourse of power and counter-power" of Michel Foucault arguing that power rests on hierarchy and in order to emphasize its nature one should inevitably consider the order. In this descriptive- analytical study, using qualitative-data collection methods, three serious defecincies in the organizational culture of the armed forces have been identified including: recruitment, training and supervision during service. According to this hypothesis, with a more detailed planning in stages of recruitment, training and the supervision of service through recognizing the change of power’s concept in the postmodern era, we can greatly reduce the weaknesses of organizational culture in armed forces.

The Persian Gulf is a Geopolitical region which has been of great importance since the ancient. Too many oil-rich countries, the tense situation and internal weakness of states, their dependence on foreign countries, its geopolitical proximity with India, major distinction in the political – economic structure all make this region different from other geopolitical regions in the world. Persian Gulf has become the focus of attention of great powers of the world since oil was produced and because of political changes. Strategic location of Iran in the Middle East, different crisis and political instability in neighboring countries give rise to security threats. USA is the main trans regional threat which has influence on this strategic region and states. By using AHP method and comparing geographical criteria, this article tries to show the importance of Persian Gulf and Hormoz strait for the security of Iran and USA and to illuminate the reasons for its importance according to being massive oil and gas reserves, oil market, and role of cultural ideological considerations.