Presenting an Accepted Defense Strategy Pattern Based on Strategic Turn from Threat - based to Trauma-based Strategies

From the past, country’s defense strategy pattern was consistent with the environmental changes based on historical and traditional or threat-centric strategies. In other words, defense planning and empowerment was based on actual and potential threats model; so that it has severely affected the equipment preparedness and even the structure of the defense organization. The issue that to what extent these strategies are able to meet the needs of national defense in future battlefield heterogeneous conditions is the most important issue facing the defense system. This paper aims to identify the common patterns of national defense strategy and to provide a model consistent with accepted literature of the Islamic Revolution’s values. In this context, given the threats’ heterogeneity conditions, the main question is that what kind of accepted strategic pattern can develop and expand the national system’s level of accountability toward security-defense threats? Through theoretical explanation and logical reasoning, with a comparative study of four defense systems including race-based, capability-based, threat-based and trauma-based strategies, the author tried to reveal component of the pattern, and then to expand the ideas about it.