How Defence Works: the defence operating model
A description of the organisational structure of Defence and how its organisations work together.
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How Defence Works explains how defence is structured and governed, how key decisions are taken, and how 7 core activities (policy, strategy, planning, governance, generate, enable, and operate) are carried out by 18 organisations and 16 key business functions, working together to deliver 3 defence outputs (defence policy, military capability, and military operations).
This publication replaces the December 2015 edition of How Defence Works.
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Last updated 23 September 2020 + show all updates
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Added the new version of the How Defence works and updated the details on the page.
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Addition of information stating that a fully revised version of ‘How Defence Works’ is in development and will be available from Spring 2020.
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Updated to version 4.2.
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First published.