And Richards, of course, reports to General Jones as the NATO Commander in Afghanistan, overseeing the three regions, and eventually, one assumes, the fourth region. We should not lose sight of the fact that the NATO nations in Afghanistan, at least the longer-in-the-tooth members of NATO, have had a number of decades of operations with the American forces as members of NATO, quite obviously, so accommodations, in terms of operational requirements and requests and that sort of thing, ought not to be that new, certainly, and not difficult.
On September 20th, 2006. See this statement in context.