Soft War and the Need for Education and Awareness of Police to Delay with It

Abstract. Soft war is the newest strategy designed by the defeated enemies who intend, through it, to penetrate into the thinking coordinates of various people and to mobilize forces inside of the country to meet their goals. Of most effective bodies that guard order and security in containing various crises is police standing in the forefront of fight against the enemy. Therefore, it is essential to train all police forces and staffs so that they are made aware of enemy's goals and components of soft war. The present article which is the result of a scientific investigation in this regard has sought to substantiate or disprove the effects of training of police about social, cultural, political, religious, and economic goals of the enemy in the soft war and to deal with it as it has used descriptive-survey methods as well as descriptive and inferential statistics. The statistical population of the research consisted of 102 Police Command Staffs in the city of Baharestan (West of Tehran Police Command) who were investigated through a researcher made questionnaire. The findings obtained suggest that all five hypotheses were confirmed and it was shown that training of police is effective in the area of dealing with five components the enemies are seeking via the soft war. In this regard, the social component, scoring 18.96% and political component, scoring 17.58% assume more significance compared to other components. On the other hand, the results obtained indicated that the economic component or goal had the lowest effect rates in the soft war waged by the enemy against our country