Thank you, Mr. Chair.
To both our witnesses, thank you for coming in today and sharing your experiences and expertise on this file, which needs some attention at this moment.
Mr. Spears, you mentioned in your earlier testimony errors in strategy and tactics that could have led Somalia in a different state. I want to go back a bit to the time of independence, which was in 1960, when you could see early signs of the crisis that Somalia would be facing very shortly; it showed signs of a fractured state. Then we can fast-forward towards the 1990s, when we saw a bloody civil war, with the U.S. invading and then withdrawing. Can you elaborate a bit on the errors in strategy and tactics that you mentioned earlier in your statement?