فصلنامه مدیریت نظامی
پیاپی 90 (تابستان 1402)

The nature of the religious and ideological foundations of each political unit is necessary and essential to understand the military thought of them; in this way, knowledge of the military thought of divine religions is very important. Since more than half of the world's people follow the two religions of Islam and Christianity, their military thought is particularly important. Therefore, this study aims to compare the purpose of war and defense in the military thought of Islam and Christianity and define the common points and their differences. The question of the research is “what are the commonality and difference points of the Islam and Christianity in purpose of war and defense in the military thought? This applied-developmental study was conducted with comparative method and using the analytical-descriptive approach. The data were run via MAXQDA software. Findings reveal that the main points of commonality are: confrontation, fight and destruction of disbelief, expansion of religion, achievement of peace and spreading justice. The main points of difference imply that Christianity considers the compulsion to obey and support the religion against non-Christian nations as a reason to justify war, while in Islam defensive jihad is to preserve the religion, and the spread of Islam by war is not allowed to other divine religions. It is concluded that the military thought of Islam and Christianity do not have much difference regarding the purpose of war and defense, and what can be seen on the surface is the difference in the views of their followers

NATO's territorial expansion to Eastern Europe led to Russia's attack on Ukraine in 2022, which resulted in destructive effects on the nations of the two countries and their governments, and somehow overshadowed the whole of Europe and large parts of the world. This study aims to draw the possible scenarios for the Russia -Ukraine war in the horizon of 2028. In this applied- exploratory research, scenario writing method was used with a quantitative approach. 17 people with at least 5 years of experience in strategic jobs were selected from among professors of armed forces universities and military commanders through purposeful sampling method as statistical population. Data collected by conducting scientific and specialized library studies, using brainstorming methods and interviewing experts in the form of expert meetings. To draw the scenarios, the scenario analysis method, based on the seven steps of scenario writing with a quantitative approach, was used. By obtaining experts' opinion and quantitative analysis, four possible and believable scenarios were drawn: "long war (World War III)" (catastrophic believable) with strong effect; "diplomatic solution" (optimistic believable) with medium effect; " European war" (probably pessimistic) with strong effect, and "Putin's overthrow and disintegration of Russia" (probably pessimistic) with a very strong effect.

The Armed Forces of the I.R. of Iran, with the largest number of manpower and the wide geographical scope and variety of assigned missions, is one of the organizations that more than ever needs to establish knowledge management system to improve the decision-making processes in the command and control system, to transfer the experiences and tacit knowledge of the employees before leaving, to store the experiences in the knowledge base of the organization, to acquire and produce the new knowledge to perform missions and the use of knowledge management tools to increase productivity. The multifaceted nature of the knowledge management and its distribution in different areas such as organizational culture, organizational structure and software are one of the concerns of armed organizations in the implementation of this issue. If any organizations can find appropriate knowledge management solutions in these areas, it is possible to be balanced and successful. The realization of this importance will be possible by following a systemic approach in the implementation of knowledge management at the organization level, so this study aims to design a knowledge management system in the military organizations of the I.R. of Iran. In this applied-developmental study, the approach is mixed and the research method is descriptive- analytical. Data were analyzed via SPSS software in the quantitative part and content analysis was used for documents and interviews in the qualitative part. The most important components of the knowledge management system to use in a military organization were approved by the statistical population and experts as follow: 1- Management and leadership 2- ICT 3- Human resource management 4-Organizational structure 5-Organizational culture 6-Establishment and implementation 7-Training 8- Oriented pillars 9-Knowledge fields 10- Organization knowledge management cycle

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), both armed and unarmed, play an important role in use of advanced military technologies due to their strategic advantages (economic justification, radar avoidance, being unmanned, less risk in dangerous operations) and also its variety of uses. For this reason, the manufacturing industry and using unmanned aircraft, which is one of the most advanced industries and is at the edge of the world's technology, has found a very special place among the leading countries with science and technology. In this qualitative-exploratory research, the model of pattern development and typology has been used to provide a practical and comprehensive model for increasing the power of UAVs. In this research, the qualitative data obtained from the study of theories, books and articles related to the increase of air power and UAV power, were coded and classified. Currently, the country's UAV system requires the suitable model based on detailed research in order to optimize the equipment while increasing its power. This model optimizes the methods of using UAVs in order to obtain maximum efficiency from available resources; In addition, it is being able to target the costs of purchasing or producing equipment. It was determined that to increase the power of UAVs, special attention should be paid to the five dimensions: legal factors, structural and organizational factors, human factors, support factors and operational factors.

The competent human capital of defense organizations considering their mission and culture will improve the capability and combat readiness of them. Considering the status of Iranian national and epic culture, this article has identified and classified the epic competencies of officers based on the educational teachings of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. This applied research was conducted with a qualitative approach and thematic analysis strategy. The information sources of the research include the educational teachings of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh in relation to the military men, which were selected purposefully and analyzed and reported with content network tool. The compilation and categorization of identified epic competencies showed that these can be classified into seven main categories: belief; value; attitudinal; personality; cognitive and psychological; and behavioral and physical competencies. Findings reveal that the epic myths introduced in the Shahnameh have been models of moral chivalry. It is concluded that promoting educational teachings of Shahnameh among military personnel can help to develop officer competencies based on Iranian culture. The results can be used as a rich source of the teachings of Iran's national culture in developing a comprehensive model of officer competencies. Also, they can be used as a guide for developing the epic spirit of officers to ensure the stable security of the homeland and the optimal implementation of duties and assigned missions.

Realizing as much research-oriented approach as possible in AJA officer universities requires redesigning the existing education and training model and applying strategies that all human resources (teachers, students and managers/commanders) involved in the education and training process and implemented during training or work. This study aims to design the model of education and training of AJA officer universities, relying on research-oriented human capital strategy. In purpose, this research is applied, and in method, it is mixed that has been done with thematic analysis method. In the qualitative part, using library studies and in-depth interviews with experts, variables of model were determined; and in the quantitative part, the fuzzy Delphi approach was used to validate the model. Statistical population includes all professors of Khatam-al-Anbiya Air Defense University (faculty members, lecturers and visiting professors). Through purposeful sampling method, 15 in-depth interviews were conducted until theoretical saturation was reached. To determine validity, the method of triangulation of data sources was used, and to determine reliability, the agreement between two evaluators was used. Based on the summation of opinions of academic experts and after implementing the concepts obtained from library studies and the text of interviews and removing similar and repetitive codes, 22 basic themes based on 6 main organizing themes (including human resources; support, administrative and executive; cultural and value; high level documents and research-oriented organizational needs) were identified