Introducing Strategic Topics in Nation-Wide Electrical System Sustainability Management from War-Related Crisis Management Perspectives

Every electrical power grid as an interconnected system has one or more bottleneck components. If in any case, these components  are attacked and lose their systematical functions, the grid will  partly or completely collapse. In case of electrical blackout, all of the dependent infrastructures will fall in an increasing crisis in their necessary activities; because since the beginning of blackout, self-retaining ability of subsystems such as economic, social and political will decrease more and more. In this paper, the NATO war against former Yugoslavia (1999) and the USA and its allied nations war against Iraq (2003) were studied primarily focusing on objectives, strategies and the attackers' actions against power grids. Based on these studies, and also considering the existing condition of power grid in our country's structure from technical perspectives and its sustainability management, measures have been taken to extract strategic topics in the power grid sustainability system based on the passive defense implications. This is done according to comparative method through comparison between equivalent components of deterrence strategy and sustainability management principles. The said topics are based on the necessity of elements importance through ranking to recognize system bottlenecks to withstand enemy first attack and restoration plan as instruction to do the second passive response to him.