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CONCLUSIONS 
 
The application of a forming model of 
intercultural communication should not be made by 
ignoring other models. Thus, even if the Byram`s 
model is the most adequate to the Romanian 
environment, due to the projection of the finalities, 
at least of the military system of education, 
according to d`Hainaut, we may consider as viable 
in applying an adaptive model to the military theater 
of operations (during the training period for the 
peace-keeping mission) the objectives from Seelye`s 
model, the knowledge of the host culture and the 
application of the steps from Brislin-Yoshida, or the 
prefiguration of the maximum level of cultural 
maturity from the King-Baxter Magolda model. 
Also, to adequate the cognitive content regarding the 
host culture, Robinson’s model or Bennett’s model 
is useful and applicable within the theater of 
operations.
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