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The Future Policy Survey team were particularly interested in perceptions among coalition partners of the strengths and weaknesses of the Netherlands’ deployments. This document presents a summary of key findings from the RAND Europe study. RAND Europe anticipates that this report will be available to the wider Netherlands Government, alongside the final conclusions submitted to the Netherlands Ministry of Defence. This report will be of interest to NATO and EU defence policy-makers, especially those with forces deployed alongside those of the Netherlands. It may also be of interest to NATO and EU serving military personnel, particularly those in the Netherlands. Finally, it may be also of interest to other defence professionals, those involved in evaluating public policy and those with an interest in the Netherlands Future Policy Survey. 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For more information about RAND Europe or this document, please contact: Dr Matt Bassford Tel: +44 1223 353329 E-mail: [email protected] RAND Europe Westbrook Centre Milton Road Cambridge CB4 1YG ii Contents Preface.........................................................................................................................ii Table of Figures...........................................................................................................vi Table of Tables.......................................................................................................... vii Summary.....................................................................................................................ix Study context and scope ....................................................................................ix Study approach .................................................................................................ix Summary of study findings: implications for the Netherlands.............................x Summary of study findings: relative strengths and weaknesses of the Netherlands...........................................................................................x Acknowledgments...................................................................................................... xii CHAPTER 1 Introduction ....................................................................................1 1.1 Study context and scope .................................................................................... 1 1.2 About benchmarking......................................................................................... 1 1.3 Conceptual framework ...................................................................................... 1 1.3.1 Selecting comparators........................................................................... 2 1.3.2 The benchmarking exercise................................................................... 2 1.4 Methodology..................................................................................................... 2 1.4.1 Literature review................................................................................... 3 1.4.2 Internal RAND workshop .................................................................... 4 1.4.3 Interviews............................................................................................. 4 1.4.4 Media analysis ...................................................................................... 4 1.4.5 Limitations of the methodology............................................................ 4 1.5 The use of this study ......................................................................................... 5 1.6 Structure of the report....................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER 2 Setting the context: the Netherlands ................................................6 2.1 Introduction...................................................................................................... 6 2.2 Socio-economic indicators................................................................................. 6 2.3 Defence policy................................................................................................... 8 2.3.1 Defence ambition................................................................................. 8 2.3.2 Personnel.............................................................................................. 9 2.3.3 Defence spending ............................................................................... 10 iii CHAPTER 3 Resources and deployments ...........................................................11 3.1 Introduction.................................................................................................... 11 3.2 Defence spending............................................................................................ 11 3.2.1 Overall defence spending.................................................................... 11 3.2.2 Defence investment spending ............................................................. 14 3.2.3 Defence spending on personnel .........................................................
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