Sir, I'll start with the second question first, if you don't mind. There are two military missions in Afghanistan: the OEF and the ISAF mission. The key issue here is to ensure coordination, so that we don't have a conflict during operations.
We work with the ISAF mission under the control of NATO. Our operational commander of Joint Task Force Kandahar works directly under Regional Command South, who works under COM ISAF. He gets his direction from there.
To deconflict operations, we work at both the ISAF in Kabul and at Regional Command South. This is also done directly with our commanders, so that if OEF should be conducting operations in the areas where we work, we know about it and can have that deconfliction. This way, there is no chance of blue on blue or things happening that we wouldn't have control of.
That system, we believe, has worked very well over the last 18 months or so. In fact, I cannot list for you any operation that has caused an issue because we didn't have synchronization or deconfliction between OEF and ISAF. We focus on the ISAF mission, of which we are a part, and we seek to make sure we have deconfliction for OEF.
On the ISAF and the assets coming in from the United States of America, all the details of how they will work are not yet hammered out, but they are coming in to work for the ISAF mission. In other words, they are declared to NATO forces, which means they work under the NATO rules of engagement. They are directed by the NATO commander both at ISAF headquarters in Kabul and at Regional Command South in Kandahar.
Therefore, they will fit with the ISAF campaign plan in the operations they conduct. That was all being walked through. In fact, when I was there three weeks ago, I had a chance to talk to all of those commanders, and they were seized with how to get the best impact from the marines that are starting to arrive but are not yet operational, and then from the forces that they were expecting. This was pre-Bucharest. They were expecting forces to be declared at Bucharest and come in later on. These forces are not working for OEF but for NATO and are under the same chain of command as we are, responding to the same campaign plan.