I'll start with the army. One of the challenges is that even though a nation has been given primary responsibility for it, there are three or four other countries involved at different stages. Even Canada is involved in training Afghan soldiers into company groups in the Kabul area. One of the challenges is that the three or four countries involved may have different ways of operating. It's a challenge for the Afghan army to make sure that from top to bottom they have a common doctrine and common procedures.
I think the United States is ultimately responsible for the training of the army, so they have to be talking to us, the French, and some other countries working with the Afghan army to make sure it stays with one doctrine.
The other challenge for the Afghan army is equipment. They use old Soviet-style equipment. Some of their weapons and vehicles are decades old. NATO is moving quickly right now to provide them with more recent weapons of the old Soviet style. As the former Warsaw Pact members who have joined NATO are getting rid of all their weapons, they're going to migrate them to the Afghans.
The challenge with the police is really serious. The army gets paid on a regular basis, so the soldiers get paid, but the method for paying the police goes through the various provinces, and it's intermittent. Some police get paid on a regular basis and some don't, and that causes a challenge. If police don't get paid, they have to get paid some way or other, so sometimes the police are not.... People don't necessarily run to the police for help in some areas. That's a challenge.
The other thing is that the police don't have much in the way of equipment. You see them running around in Toyota trucks in ribbons. But they're brave, I have to tell you. The soldiers and the police are very brave individuals. They go into firefights with basically next to no protection. They do a very fine job.
I'll hand it over to the CDS.