Knowledge Management Elements in the IRI’s Ministry of Defense

The defensive power of a society cant be Summarized in its military power. The Given the regional-global equations, the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) is on the verge of enter into knowledge-based structure in her development route, the necessity which has many times explicitly and implicitly been stressed in the speeches of the supreme leader (ph), the 20-year Vision and other development plans. In the same vein, it is required that the national scientific and socio-cultural frameworks equipped with research-poeration platforms be taken into consideration. Accordingly, the IRI's Minisrty of Defense (IRIMOD) as a knowledge-based organization is in need to diverse methods and models for knowledge management in varied strategic operational levels and in its subsets such as headquarter, organizations and defense industries. Meanwhile, this paper, an apllied-developmental research, mainly aims at developing a knowledge management model for the IRIMOD upon case-based and mixed method (quality & quantity) with Thematic and Content Analysis. Consequently, the outcome of the study suggests that the model for knowledge management in the IRIMOD  comprises five principal elements as:1) strategic knowledge management infrastructure; 2) strategic knowledge management processes; 3) strategic domians of knowledge; 4) creation of value for beneficiaries; 5) creation of deterrence power and defensive competency