The current command and control architecture of our soldiers, your soldiers, in Afghanistan, as I know and has been alluded to by General Howard and General Gauthier.... Brigadier General Tim Grant is the Canadian national commander, and his headquarters works for Dutch two-star headquarters, which in turn works for an ISAF headquarters, which is run now by a British four-star, which reports back to a German four-star in Brunssum, which in turn reports to SACEUR. You might say that that sounds like a lot of headquarters, and you'd be absolutely right.
At every level of those headquarters, there's a series of strategic review teams continually looking at what they're doing at every level and seeing how they can do it better, faster, smarter. Where it gets extraordinarily complicated is when it leaves the military domain of NATO and goes into the political domain. Of course, all soldiers, sailors, and airmen in NATO work for their political leadership.
Sir, I would not presume to try to guess when such a review, either accepted or endorsed by all the NATO members, on the future of Afghanistan might be forthcoming. Trying to achieve consensus on this delicate and complicated task is going to be extraordinarily interesting. That's levels above me. At times, indeed often--always--I'm very glad to be a soldier, because that one will be really tough to try to resolve.
I haven't answered your question.