That is a very important element, which I'm certainly prepared to talk to you about a little bit. That is in the context of the command and control of that organization. The Afghan army is patterning its command-and-control capability very much on western army structures, if you like. They have a chief of defence. They have a deputy chief of defence. They have a minister who actually oversees all of that. So they are using what we would consider to be democratic processes to govern the command and control or the direction and policy development of their military. So it's all there. It's burgeoning. They have the chief, his deputy chief, division commanders, brigade commanders, and so on, battalion commanders. It goes through the entire process, all of which we have to keep at least thinking about in the context, as well, of ethnic groups and they have to de-conflict that. That's the same in Iraq, by the way, with all of the ethnic populations that they have. But that is under the minister of defence. So the military is governed in the democratic way that we know, in that same way.
Under the ministry of the interior, they have their border police and so on. They have the Afghan national police, also under the ministry of the interior. They have judicial processes that are now very much in need of assistance as well, in terms of developing their police training, their judicial systems, their judges, and so on, their police capability at large, detention facilities, on and on. But they're all done in ways that we would recognize as democratic ways, even though they have the tribal links that come with them.
I'm encouraged by what I see, quite frankly, and that's all being assisted by the UN, the international community that's there, the strategic advisory team that Canada has provided, which is providing some excellent advice to the Afghans in terms of reforming and modernizing its military and so on. So the international community, Canada being very much in the lead on that with the strategic advisory team, is very much a part of what I think will be a success story for Afghanistan in the long term.