At the first level, the hypothesis is separated in three general threat assessment criteria: Intent (or motive), Capability, and Opportunity.
Four years after the botched response to Hurricane Katrina deepened skepticism about Washington's ability to help ordinary people, Mr. Obama's opponents are benefiting from intense suspicion in some quarters about the government's motives and capabilities, helping them blunt the drive to give government a more active role in health care.
In the section "Analysis model" we propose an analysis method for breaking down the problem of analyzing whether a person is a lone wolf terrorist or not into smaller sub-problems, such as identifying motives (intent), capabilities, and opportunities.
But military intervention without a UN mandate raises questions over a country's motives and capabilities to rebuild in the post-conflict period.
But Israel has an obvious motive, an impressive capability in covert operations, and a track record of trying to assassinate its enemies.
Yet the fact is, without making a thorough effort to comprehend the motives, fears and capabilities of Al Qaeda's militants, we can hardly hope to defeat them.
It also said Isis was "the only entity with the ability, capability, motive and the means" to use sulfur mustard gas in Marea in Aleppo governorate near the Turkish border on 21 August 2015.
Nasr's words appeal to what I think are the better angels of my nature, to my deeply rooted belief that the world needs America, but the events of the past half century have taught me to be suspect both of our motives and of our capabilities.
Given that cyber-attacks can be launched from almost anywhere, attribution is likely to remain tricky and to rely on context, motive and an assessment of capabilities as much as technology.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday explicitly accused China's military of mounting attacks on American government computer systems and defense contractors, saying one motive could be to map "military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis".
