The relation between obligatory military service and the governmental nation building project of Pahlavi I

At first, in the beginning of the modern era, ‘Military Service’ was formed within the kingdom armies and independent European governments of the Church, and it could be an intermediate between government and nation, and also a means to extend rulers and king militarism. The social labor division, technical progress and industrialization, in turn, led to form modern armies as the first bureaucratic institution. But this phenomenon which had been appeared after some intellectual and social transformations in the West was formed in ‘Pahlavi I’ government as a part of the modernization project and the establishment of the regime totalitarianism. The development of national identity elements and making the Iranian traditional forces obedient to the absolute sovereignty through public education, was possible just by means of army and military service. “Military Service” and the public disarmament make it possible to the Pahlavi regime to establish itself through expanding its military authority. Constructing an integrated military and compulsory military service should be regarded as the first multidimensional organized efforts to create modern system civilians based on the nation-state theory