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Western civilization and thinking is known as the first degree enemy of the Islamic revolution Therefore, knowing more about the military ideology of the colonial powers and addressing this issue is of particular importance. Since the role of intellectual foundations governing any society is one of the important components in the formation of political thought and, accordingly, its military thought.In order to know the nature and truth of the West, its constituent elements and characteristics must be examined, researched and identified.Therefore, explaining the intellectual foundations of Western military thought is a problem that this article deals with. Accordingly, the main question of this research is: What are the intellectual foundations of Western military thought? In order to answer this question, the research was conducted with a qualitative method and by studying the views of Western thinkers and Western scholars, taken from written works and using Maxquda software. The research findings show that: "Domination of the resources and strategic points of the world", "Military intervention to protect the interests" ,...as the intellectual foundations of the Western military thought, which originate from materialism, have taken 51% of the counted themes. which shows that the fundamental principle of the intellectual foundations of Western thought is materialism. On the other hand, "Imposing war under the pretext of expanding democracy","defensive preventive intervention and preemptive war". As another part of the intellectual foundations of Western military thought, which originate from humanism and 49% of the counted themes have been allocated to themselves This indicates the importance of humanist intellectual foundations in Western military thought.

The Persian Gulf is a strategic region whose components are inextricably linked to each other. And every movement that occurs in one of its units is reflected in another part of the region. In order to maintain the unity of the region, it is necessary that a comprehensive and coherent cooperation be made by its constituent members And this is possible in the shadow of cooperation and collaboration. It is in the context of convergence that the countries of the region will be able to pursue their interests as they have defined Without threatening or diminishing the values of the governments of other regions. The purpose of this study is to identify convergent geopolitical factors affecting the collective security of the Persian Gulf region. The research method is using the classical Delphi method and in the form of convergence theories approach. The statistical population of this study includes 35 experts in the field of geopolitics, security and international relations Initially to reach a consensus on convergent geopolitical components During three stages, the components were examined and finally 34 components were agreed upon as follows The majority of the people of the region follow the religion of Islam as a stable and unifying factor, Proximity and geographical continuity of countries in the region, Existence of suitable fossil and mineral reserves in the countries of the region and the dependence of their economies on oil revenues, Establish and strengthen the Joint Committee of Coastal Countries for Environmental Affairs, The relationship between the countries of the Persian Gulf region and the important geopolitical areas of the West Asian region, Membership of most countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council.