Thank you very much, Chair.
And thank you, General.
You mentioned that the workforce is not ready yet and you described its components: the equipment, people, training, doctrine. How those components interact sometimes evolves very quickly. As you mentioned, the Kandahar environment was a petri dish from which innovation can arise. We certainly saw innovation in the Libyan theatre as well. You and I both had the pleasure of welcoming some pilots home, who described what they had learned in the air and on the ground about dynamic targeting and so forth.
I think all of us are very much aware that success in a combat mission in the air involves not just having the right aircraft and pilots but also working against and suppressing air defences. These are capabilities that we've always expected to be provided jointly among allies within NATO. Could you talk a little bit about that challenge going forward and what we're doing to continue to be ready to deal with it when we put our men and women in aircraft over a territory where the opposing forces have some of these capabilities?