"The odds of repeating another Afghanistan or Iraq — invading, pacifying, and administering a large third-world country — may be low," Mr. Gates said, but the Army and the rest of the government must focus on capabilities that can "prevent festering problems from growing into full-blown crises which require costly — and controversial — large-scale American military intervention".
In affluent countries, by contrast, well-being analysis would often focus on capabilities that are less necessary for survival.
If one wants to endorse and implement this principle of responsibility-sensitivity, then specifications and applications of the capability approach should focus on capabilities, rather than functionings.
Here, I focus on capabilities such as attentional modulation and concept learning and discuss their mechanistic bases.
Update: Burnham's spokesman has now confirmed the review will not include ISCs but only focus on capabilities badged as "bulk" in the bill.
"The fund will invest in promising companies primarily around Connected Enterprise, Consumer Solutions, Connected Car and Digital Health, as well as enabling technologies with a focus on capabilities in big data and analytics," NGP said in a statement.
Some commentators have suggested that the ICECAP-O is not suitable for use in CUA because of its focus on capabilities which does not enable the calculation of QALYs [ 24, 94].
As an example, assuming that an analyst believes that someone needs to have both intent and capability in order to commit a terror attack, one sub-process can focus on looking for possible intent (e.g., based on radical postings made by the individual) while the other one is focusing on capability (e.g., web sites discussing how to make bombs).
Recruitment would be focused on "capability development" rather than "personality traits", Lt Col Michael White told Newsnight's Susan Watts.
