راهبرد صنعتي شدن و تأثير ان در تقويت بنيه دفاعي كشور

Industrialization strategy and its impact on strengthening state defensive power

Our contemporary history is characterized by fundamental developments to the extent that the period just following the word war two witnessed five distinct eras: atom, computer, biological engineering and micro-electronic revolution. Each of the eras has entailed great achievement not less important than those of the Bronze, Renaissance or the Industrial Revolution. It is worth considering that such development lengthened for centuries, while the five mentioned eras took place in just less than a century and the developments are so speedy that man fails to catch up with them and they have had great consequences for structural layers of all concepts including that of national security. Technological developments infiltrate in variety of ways of which developments in weapons are the most obvious ones. Given the prime signification of weapons and huge investments made in the pertinent industries, the respective developments were so quick and substantial that states used to spend billions of dollars in weaponry industries during the Cold War. The trend was so quick that prior to production of any new weapon through the production line, competing state would make measures for mass production of countering weapon. The process was identified War of thoughts; thereby any hightech weapon has necessitated emerging requirements for statesʹ national security, multiplied expenses of war and made any tendencies to it irrational. A review of the origin of the Industrial Revolution leads us to some worthy of affection paints. In fact, the Industrial Revolution traces back to a time man has taken the advantages of his thoughts and capabilities. Meanwhile, it should not be overlooked that the revolution geographically occurred in certain countries indicating role of geographical boundaries. Characteristics of industrial countries reveal that such a revolution or the industrial development can take place under some distinctive conditions of which an efficient scientific and technical administrative system is an important one; and claim sustained by taking a look on those countries where the Industry Revolution happened or those countries which are examples of such developments.