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16.04.2009

ISSUES OF ORGANIZATION OF ARMENIANCY

   

Gagik Ter-Harutyunyan

We can meet both pessimistic and optimistic and sometimes even “realistic” forecasts, which are formed by a simple combination of “bad” and “good” scenarios, on the informational field regarding the current “crisis”. Anyway it is difficult to evaluate those scenarios. The crisis processes change our notion of the system of values, and this, in its turn, makes the notion of what is “good” and “bad” rather relative. Under such an uncertainty the issue of the adequate orientation of national elite becomes of vital importance.

And, at first, let us try to mention briefly the ongoing system changes:

1. Liberal (democratic) ideology cedes its dominating position and at current moment some kind of multi-ideological field, which consists of combined universal (liberal, socialistic) and national ideological provisions, is formed in the leading countries. National component comprises the information regarding a separate civilizational unit and, in fact, it is the factor, which conditions the competitive ability of the society.

2. The former unipolar and “overorganized” military and political system has changed into a multi-polar system. On this stage the possibility of new (even nuclear) conflicts has grown.

3. New realias influenced the globalization. Now, this process is initiated not by one, but by several civilizational centres, which have enough spiritual, mental and material resources. Such a process intends both convergence (mutual influence) and confrontation (collision). As a result, the level of global “chaos” rises and at the same time the necessity of the “dialogue of civilizations” is underlined.

The aforementioned changes inevitably influence Armenian realias. There is no doubt that in order to resist those new challenges, it is necessary not only to centralize the means we possess, but also to create the resources of a new quality. Among them, in our opinion, the elaborations of various strategies and technologies should be included.

At the same time the every strategy supposes the clear perceptions of the initial situation.

Characteristic of Armenia-Armeniancy system

It is obvious that in the context of the aforementioned problems our competitive ability can be provided only when the resources of the RA, the NKR and Armeniancy are united. Though we should keep in mind that the considerable part, if not the main part, of those resources belongs to the Armenians who live abroad and who are of different faith and speak different languages. Depending on the point of residence their geopolitical orientation also differs. From the informational point of view there are some difficulties connected with the difference between “eastern Armenians” and “western Armenians”. Taking into consideration all those facts, it should be stated that today the main constructive and uniting idea of the Armeniancy is the Armenian civilization and political community1.

At the same time, one should realize that Armenian civilization, as it was mentioned above, is not uniform and the perception of the world on behalf of its different stratum very often differs. That means, according to those measures, our civilization can be regarded as the so called “split civilizations” and possibility of the fall of such civilizations, as it is known, is rather high.

Thus, there is a bit paradox situation: under the newly formed circumstances the only guarantee of our development and survival is to be a united civilization unit but the current condition of that civilization objectively contains definite risks of degeneration.

Accepting the objective essence of the abovementioned challenges one should not forget that any crisis, “negative” situation contains also new possibilities. Particularly, the diversity of Armeniancy can benefit to our national interests. For example, under the conditions of current civilizational collision our various faith and different language speaking parts can carry out a definite mission and become the implementers of the interests of the Armeniancy in different geopolitical and cultural fields. But it is obvious that the implementation of such a policy is possible only under the condition of highly organized national nature.

On the net centric system

Today, undoubtedly, more attention is paid to the issues of the organization of Armeniancy. Particularly in the publications you can often meet the idea that the most efficient mean of national organization is the formation of “net centric system of government”. At the same time there is an impression that this notion is taken a bit simple. From this point of view it would not be out of place to touch briefly upon the history of the formation of that technology and its essence.

The concept of “net centric warfare” was elaborated at the end of the 90th of the last century by the employees of American RAND Corporation J. Aqvil and D. Ronfelt. The point that in the informational society the strength of the state (community), first of all, depends on its ability to inform, to get the information, to fix it in proper way is accepted as a reference point. According to the author’s conception the notion of “net” supposes the cancellation of the “Centre-periphery” hierarchic governing method, which is characteristic of industrial society, and the elaboration of the system, which have no distinct structure, i.e. unstructured system, and which supposes non-linear process logic. Within such a system there is no “centre”, but every link, constituting the part of that system, can obtain the functions of the governing “centre”.

The concept, offered by RAND, captured the attention of military strategists (D.Rumsfeld, P.Wolfovitz and etc.) and very quickly many “think tanks” took over the implementation of that concept. The department of “reorganization of Armed Forces”, which on the assumption of net centric warfare principles implements the reforms of the American armed forces and carries out new elaborations, was established.

Thus, “net centric” concept is:

  • the system with high intellectual resources, which components can be adequately informed and can fix properly and fast the obtained information,
  • the understanding of the state of war (the broad concept and not exclusively military actions) and an appropriate psychology and way of conduct.

Some conclusions

It appears from this that the implementation of “net centric” organization and governing technologies demands from the Armenincy the critical mass of intellectual and organizational resources and spiritual and psychological training. It is obvious that in order to possess and to use the resources the elite with the appropriate skills is necessary. It is characteristic that famous British political scientist Arnold Toynbee conditions the survival of the civilizations by the presence of such a “creative minority”.

1Thereby, let us mention that the attempt to narrow the perceptions regarding Armeniancy, trying to present it as an ethno-religious unit and not civilizational unit, definitely conflicts with our interests.


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