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A. F. Salam and Jason R. Stevens

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Modules deliver the necessary capabilities, where one module can serve multiple
capabilities. An example is the Belgian Defence. The Belgian political leaders wanted
to have some effects on the society (outcomes) by using the military power, which
have to perform actions (output) to obtain these effects. The wanted effects are described
in a number of scenarios (such as peace keeping operations, humanitarian
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actions). Therefore, the Military Command had configured capabilities to perform
actions for all scenarios. However, due to budgetary and operational reasons, not all
scenarios can be covered at the same moment. So the political leaders have expressed
which has to be the maximum deployment of forces (capabilities) at the same time.
Then Military Command has defined modules which can be used for minimum one
capability, but also for the maximum asked capabilities (at the same time).


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