00966nas a2200145   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003260008200044653001900126100001800145700002000163245003800183520059900221       2011                            d  cNovember 2011bInstitute of Information and Communication TechnologiesaSofia10aIT4Sec reports1 aTodor Tagarev1 aGeorgi Tsvetkov00aComparative Defence Data Analysis3 a„Comparative Defence Data Analysis” outlines what is considered good practice in formulating defence policy, in particular in emphasising particular missions of the armed forces, in managing defence personnel, in understanding what a certain level of defence allocations would mean for the capacity of the armed forces to perform assigned missions, and in managing main categories of defence assets. Towards this purposes the study compares the practices of 18 mid- to small-size countries – all more or less transparent in their defence affairs, based entirely on publicly available data