نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی
نویسندگان
1 معاون پژوهش دانشکده علوم و فنون فارابی
2 فارابی
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
As one of the executive components of defense diplomacy, military attachés play a vital role in fulfilling the requirements and missions of defense and military establishments. Their responsibilities include enhancing hard and soft capabilities, collecting diplomatic and official intelligence, meeting intelligence requirements, engineering and managing developments in the strategic environment, contributing to regional crisis management, fostering credibility among partners, establishing or participating in international coalitions and military exercises, facilitating the transfer of advanced technologies in military weaponry, and promoting the development and exchange of military students, among other functions. In addition to representing their respective countries militarily, military attachés are responsible for collecting military intelligence through overt, covert, official, and diplomatic means while adhering to all security and protective requirements. The inherently diplomatic nature of military attachés' missions continually exposes them to the risk of intelligence politicization. Using a qualitative content analysis approach, this study investigates the impact of intelligence politicization on the intelligence collection mission of military attachés through interviews with sixteen military attachés. The findings indicate that intelligence politicization adversely affects the intelligence collection mission of military attachés by creating bias and compromising impartiality, distancing intelligence assessments from reality, undermining security decision-making, increasing the likelihood of intelligence surprise and intelligence failure, weakening the independence of military attaché offices, and facilitating intelligence deception.
کلیدواژهها [English]
)