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The availability of assets crucially depends on the interplay between the facility locations, workforce planning, and capacity allocation. Therefore, in this paper, we model and solve a novel multi-objective optimization problem for strategic facility location, workforce planning, and capacity allocation in the context of the military. The developed model deviates from more common approaches and adapts a dynamic capacity scheme for both the workforce and facilities to capture the dynamic nature of future demand, such as maintenance requirements for assets. The capacity allocation and workforce planning problem focus on mainly strategic decisions involving from workforce and facilities. A system dynamics (SD) simulation model enables a decision-maker to analyze the effects of decision variables by modeling the system complexities, uncertainties, and interactions between facilities, workforce, and assets. However …