The Impact of The Capability of Supporting National Production on IRI’S Comprehensive Defensive Deterrence (With an Emphasis on The Converging Technologies and Knowledge)

The trend of developments in the battlespace has always been abreast with the latest technological and scientific achievements of humans; so it follows that building capacity in defense sector has a close relationship with any country’s capability in producing science and technology, most notably modern military technology. On the other hand, these scientific achievements has always been playing a role in shaping the battlespace in the from of scientific concepts and technologies. This research is aimed at studying the impact of the components of converging technologies on upgrading the national production system against the incoming asymmetric threats. It, then, goes on with extracting the indices from high level documents as well as from the views expressed by experts involved in different areas including military and economic organizations, designing a conceptual framework for the research, and carrying it out by using descriptive-analytical method with the help of mixed research. The statistical population in this research include: Instructors and university students in Supreme National Defense University, specialist experts working in Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Expediency Discernment Council of the System, and the Research Center of Islamic legislative Assembly, in which the process of data gathering was done by making reference to a sample of them (93 people) being used in hypothesis testing by using the Chi-square formula to determine level of significance. As for the weight (importance) of indices using the Friedman Scoring system, the finding was that on the strength of the model of multilateral defense deterrence that the Islamic Republic of Iran used against the asymmetric threats, it must be noted that capabilities such as “critical infrastructure protection”, “production and development of sensitive military technologies”, “industrial capacity building”, “optimal resource management”, and “knowledge management”, respectively, played a substantial role in supporting the national production.