Future Operation-Relevant Capabilities and Enablers
Tomorrow’s defence technology, described in today’s documents.
FORCE reads the defence documents you release and reports the future capabilities and the enablers they depend on, arranged by combat function, within five working days.
So an investment decision rests on what the customer has already written down. For force development, defence suppliers and government submissions. No recommendations for action.
Future Operation-Relevant Capabilities and Enablers
Why you need FORCE
From 64 defence documents in 2016 to 3,259 in 2025. Can you read them?
The growing pace of geopolitical change confronts governments, organisations, markets and companies with major challenges. To meet them effectively, strategies have to be reviewed regularly and adapted promptly to changed conditions.
That calls for direction-setting decisions from leadership. Yet a reliable information base for those critical decisions is often missing — and the steadily growing volume of information makes identifying and selecting what is genuinely relevant harder still.
Four decisions a capability picture has to carry.
Develop the enablers in time
A supplier sees which enablers the future capability depends on, while there is still time to build them.
Read your own record back
A force development team finds what its own published record already commits it to, and where that record is silent.
Understand the customer
The reasoning behind a specification sits in doctrine and strategy the customer published years earlier.
Stay a step ahead
Ukraine has shown what a short capability cycle is worth. An assessment that takes five working days can be re-run against a moved position.
What you get
FORCE does the analysis. One capability map of the set you release.
Six combat functions in the columns, findings ranked down the rows. The six are NATO's; US doctrine calls its own set the warfighting functions, and the two do not map one to one. Capabilities stay distinct from the enablers they depend on, and every entry carries its reasoning and its source passage.
Complete summary
A complete, comprehensible and clearly structured summary of the information from your source documents.
Interactive HTML document
The results are provided in an interactive and editable HTML document.
Direct link to the source
The document contains both the analysis results and the underlying source information.
Capability map
Results are presented in a capability map: grouped by combat function in the columns and ordered by relevance in the rows.
How it works
Three steps, five working days.
Step 1
Send the source data
The documents you are willing to release, as PDF, DOCX or plain text. Scanned pages are handled.
Released document setInput - AJP-01Allied Joint DoctrineNATO · 2022
- JP 3-0Joint Campaigns and OperationsUSA · 2022
- AJP-3.20Cyberspace OperationsNATO · 2020
- SIPOL 2026Sicherheitspolitische Strategie 2026CH · 2026
Step 2
Analysis by FORCE
Every relevant passage is extracted, classified by combat function, labelled capability or enabler, and ranked.
One extracted passageStrategic Compass, 2022 Develop an EU Rapid Deployment Capacity that will allow us to swiftly deploy up to 5000 troops into non-permissive environments, including the required strategic enablers.
A Strategic Compass for Security and Defence · Council of the EU · 2022Step 3
Receive the result
Within five working days: a complete summary, an interactive HTML document and the capability map — every statement traceable to its source.
Findings, rankedExample - Detect and track low-signature aerial targetsCapabilityISR
- Networked sensor architecture, sub-second latencyEnablerISR
- Extended-range precision engagementCapabilityFires
Who we work with
Capability development for three kinds of question.
From the blog
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UK defence reform
National Armaments Director: what the role can decide
Three UK government texts state what the National Armaments Director is responsible for, and no two match. FORCE traces each list to the page carrying it.
- National Armaments Director Group
- The Strategic Defence Review 2025 - Making Britain Safer: secure at home, strong abroad
Read the analysis
In summary
What changes for you.
Faster
Results within five working days, for shorter decision cycles.
Better founded
Relevant findings made traceable through a direct link to the source.
Better decisions
A well-founded basis for strategic decisions.
Important principle
FORCE gives no recommendations for action. The assessment of the results and the strategic decision always remain with the client.
One step
Send us the question, not the documents.
Describe the decision that has to be taken and roughly what you could release. Within two working days you get an assessment of which documents would be needed and what an analysis of them could and could not establish. No documents change hands until that is agreed.