فصلنامه علوم و فنون نظامی
پیاپی 33 (پاییز 1394)

One of the paramount importance and serious problems for commanders in military units are the aggressions of the duty or under the affair personnel. The aim of this article is to find the effectiveness of Metacognitive Therapies on reduction of physical and verbal aggression of duty personnel of training and education center martyr Feizollah Amani of Nezaja army in year 1393. For this purpose, 40 persons of duty personnel’s referred to Consultancy inspection Services Branch of this centre, has been selected by means of random sampling randomized into two groups (Group MCT and control) at the same volume (20 cases). That Buss and Perry exams were used on the organized interviews by clinical psychologist, in both pre-test and post-test on the multivariate analysis of variance (MANCOVA) that was conducted on the data showed: Metacognitive therapy was effective on reduction of physical and verbal aggression of duty personnel. These interventions, with replacing of the patterns of cognitive and behavioural adaptation in these people, enable them to have extensive and appropriate behaviour when facing situations, therefore use of psychological interventions, particularly individual interventions, aggression could be reduced on duty personnel.

In today’s wars in which a state or a non-state actor uses a hybrid combination of conventional, irregular and asymmetric forms and deploys diplomatic, intelligence, military and economic methods and tools with the aim of destabilizing the target country, dominance over enemies requires initiation and deployment of a wise pattern which would guarantee a final triumph in this type of wars. Therefore, the main question of the paper is: What is the triumph pattern of Muslim Mujaheds (fighters) in hybrid wars from the point of view of the Holy Quran? And the main objective of the article is to elaborate on the pattern of triumph of Muslim Mujaheds in the hybrid wars from the point of view of the Holy Quran. The article has a data-based method and it is of the applied type.The statistical population of the research consists of the luminous Verses and guiding commentaries of the Holy Quran in addition to the opinions of twenty Quranic science and defense experts, which have been adopted through a targeted method. The data has been collected through field and library methods and the tool of data gathering was a questionnaire. Based on the findings of this paper, 95% of the sample population (absolute majority) considers the categories extracted from the Quranic pattern to have a very high effect on the triumph of Muslim Mujaheds in the hybrid wars.

In the age of information and communication, exponentially growing and diversified production and exchange of data from various sources, have created the concept of Big Data. Extensive investment is being made in industrialized countries for the exploitation of the opportunities and resolving technical and managerial challenges of this emerging technology. In addition to commercial, social, economic and scientific applications, big data is taken into consideration in military and national security applications. Real-time and effective use of larger amounts of data and acceleration of data transfer and process are critically important in military operations management.The main objective of this paper is to investigate the military applications of big data technology and its role in the management of battlefield. For this purpose, the features, applications and tools used in big data is first introduced. Then, by referring to the recent applications of this technology in defense and security organization, the role of this technology in the management of battlefield is studied through two conceptual models. The results of this study indicate that the use of big data technology contributes to the optimization of equipment performance, timely decision making, force direction, increased combat power and it is essential for military superiority in future wars. Some of the propositions concluded from this paper include paying attention to enlightenment, planning, identifying the internal capabilities, supporting knowledge-based companies and localization of communications infrastructures and data centers for the purpose of explaining the coordination of this technology with military applications.

One of the major themes in the Persian literary works is the subject of militancy. By militancy we mean the affairs undertaken for the fulfillment of military orders. Nezami-Ganjavi is one of the prominent poets in Iranian martial and lyrical literature. Eskandarnameh is one of his prominent poetries in martial literature. This book, which is compiled in two distinct sections (Sharafnameh and Equbalnameh), is a description of Alexander the Macedonian’s combats. Nezami presents three different images of Alexander in Eskandarnameh. This paper focuses only on one of them. That’s the one that illustrates him as a world conquering king and the owner of the throne and crown. Which techniques and approaches did he apply to achieve this level of success and glory in the battle field? What were the factors contributing to his victories in the battlefield? And finally, which military feature did his character embody? The findings of the research show that as long as man battles based on his instinct, elements such as the selection of fighting site, the deployment of the army, the army’s demographics, multi-tribal texture of the army, warlike spirit, the promise for the spoils of victory, observation, security of the conquered terrain, use of terror amongst enemy troops, bragging, military marches, mining, application of catapult and retaliation which were Alexander’s favorite tactics in combatting his enemies will be applied in modern forms.

The aim of this applied research is to investigate the impact of organizational culture on professors’ social capital of Shahid Sattari Air University in order to introduce ways to strengthen it for the purpose of improving the organizational objectives. The statistical population includes all professors and lecturers of Shahid Sattari Air University totaled 270, from which a sample size of 160 has been obtained through the Cochran formula. The primary data was obtained through library research and the secondary data was obtained from a questionnaire. The confirmatory factor analysis and LISREL software were used to confirm or refute the hypotheses of the research. The analysis of the hypotheses of the research indicates that strengthening the organizational culture of university professors is effective in increasing the social capital components. This effect is particularly more in the variable of trust. However, the participation variable requires further consideration Recognition of the cultural factors of any organization and efforts to promote these important elements are some of the important tasks of the managers. Culture is a source of trust and cooperation. The wider the domain of trust, the greater social capital will be possessed by the group.

Terrain recognition and familiarity with its different properties through the application of up-to-date and efficient tools is an important factor in achieving military superiority. Selection of a suitable place to establish observation sites and eavesdropping posts is considered one of the most important and sensitive measures by military commanders on the battlefield. The aim of this study is to identify and determine the optimal deployment areas of observers in Nasrabad before physical presence considering all circumstances, limitations and capabilities. To achieve this goal, factors such as slope, aspect, visibility and concealment, type of landforms, geology and formations, type of soil, access to road networks and the distance from the enemy were examined. After preparing data and necessary thematic maps, operations of standardization were performed on layers. Then the layers were given weights through fuzzy AHP followed by conducting a fuzzy overlay operation and the zonation of the region into five groups - very good, good, average, poor, very poor was done by using fuzzy operators in GIS environment. The results of the research observed on the field indicate that the semi-high terrain and the morphologically important military regions which adapt to the considerations of these places are well-determined. Then by the method of fuzzy AHP was carried out weighting to layers and with fuzzy operators was performed fuzzy overlay operations then zonation was determined in five groups,

To oppose their threats, all countries have to possess specific measures, policies and initiations so that they can converge and implement defense and security efforts in the form of doctrines and general policies. Because of the changes in the IRI Army structure, fire support of Army regional headquarters mission by artillery groups has faced challenge particularly in asymmetric warfare. The aim of this research is to case-study the task organization and fire planning of artillery groups in fire support of the regional operational headquarters of the Army in asymmetric warfare. The research is descriptive with a mixed method analysis approach. The study population is the IRI Army artillery groups. Due to lack of asymmetric warfare experience against trans-regional forces, researcher interviewed experts, distributed questionnaires and referred to existing documents to collect data. This research findings, added new items to classic warfare task organization and army artillery groups fire planning in fire support of army regional headquarters mission in unbalanced warfare. Based on the findings of this research, further measures than those of classic wars have to be included for task organization and fire planning of the artillery groups in the fire support of the missions of the regional operational headquarters of IRI Army in and asymmetric warfare.