EBAO stands for a totally new approach to planning and executing operations, built on the relation of causality, the multiplying effect of technology and systemic analysis. Developed by the Americans and adopted by NATO, this sophisticated method supposedly makes it possible to reach the end-state of a military intervention through the control of each and every effect of the actions conducted. Its failure in managing complexity should not prevent us from taking its better as­pects into consideration, for instance the capability of fairly sharing the burden between the military and other agencies (Interagency).