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Capabilities once reserved for well-resourced intelligence agencies can now be replicated by smaller actors using widely available technology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025

British foreign minister James Cleverly wants to boost the UK's Mandarin language skills, and said the additional financial support will be given to the "China Capabilities Programme" which operates across government departments.

From Reuters • Mar. 13, 2023

Today, it is jointly operated by the Space Force and the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2022

See the game-changing, cross-domain, cross-service concepts the Strategic Capabilities Office and @USNavy are rapidly developing: an SM-6 launched from a modular launcher off of USV Ranger.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2022

Would you discover the Atropos of Human Virtue; the sure Destroyer, "by painless extinction," of Human Veracities, Performances, and Capabilities to perform or to be veracious,—it is this, you have it here.

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas