Evaluating the Amount of Consensus and Prioritizing the Components of the Soft War Officers Role in Advancing the Goals of the Revolution’s Second Phase

Ja’fari, Ali Asghar; Moradimokhles, Hossein; Ashtari, Hassan; Mahdnejad, Hafez

Evaluating the Amount of Consensus and Prioritizing the Components of the Soft War Officers Role in Advancing the Goals of the Revolution’s Second Phase

Document Type : Science - Research

Authors

¹ PhD in Security Studies, Higher National Defense University, Tehran, Iran.

² Assistant Professor of Educational Sciences, Bu Ali Sina University, Hamadan, Iran.

³ PhD in Futurology, University of Tehran, Tehran, IRAN.

⁴ Assistant Professor of Geography, Sayyid Jamal al-Din Asadabadi University, Asadabad, IRAN.

Abstract

The soft war to weaken the intellectual and cultural circles ruling the society and the instability of the socio-political system has a broad scope against Iran, and the role of the soft war officers is essential. Accordingly, with the descriptive-analytical method and qualitative approach, the present study has a development-applied aim to formulate the soft war officers’ position in advancing the goals of the revolution’s second phase. The study's statistical population includes experts and thinkers in the Islamic Revolution, and the sample size has been done through purposeful sampling (judgmental). Based on interviews with the elites, there are 31 components to the soft warfare officers’ role in advancing the goals of the revolution’s second phase. The most common consensus is acceptance of the Vilayat and defence of it (2 scores), formulation of budget deficit strategies (1.98 scores), establishing a think tank to formulate an operational plan of the "We Can" discourse in society (1.97 scores), demanding from officials regarding anti-corruption (1.96 scores), demanding from officials regarding justice spread (1.95 scores), formulation of strategies for improving people's livelihoods, increasing the value of the national currency and improving the purchasing power of the people (1.94 scores).

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