As I've said previously, we can maintain that level of commitment of 2,300 to 2,400 into the future. We have enough resources to rotate at the appropriate time, so we can maintain that commitment--and that's an army commitment, primarily.
The challenge is that if we had to take on another substantial commitment, there aren't enough soldiers around to sustain it. What we're trying to do is expand the armed forces. That's the real challenge, the Achilles heel, right now--to try to expand the armed forces. We have a problem expanding the armed forces because in the nineties there was an uncontrolled downsizing and we lost all those people who today would be senior NCOs--senior non-commissioned officers--and middle grade officers who would be the heart of the training establishment. We're short of the kind of people we'd have as instructors and we're trying to work our way out of that.
Over time this will improve. As we produce more and more trained personnel, that will be increasing the size of the army, air force, and navy--but we're talking army at this moment--which will increase our capability then to take on more ventures. At the moment in the army we can take on one--we'll call it a major venture--like Afghanistan.
The navy is capable of taking on a task force. We can send three or four ships on some continuous basis on a commitment somewhere and we can also dispatch various parts of the air force, but the army is strained right now to take on a substantial commitment other than what they have.