In terms of my experience in Srebrenica and how it relates to Afghanistan, first, I don't have experience yet in Afghanistan. Hopefully, I'll be deploying this summer. But in comparing the two, I'll go back to the whole-of-government approach, or the COIN manual mentioned by your colleague.
In the case of Srebrenica, what was important was that I, as the commander, could only deal with international organizations. It was a lot of simpler than it is in Afghanistan, because you had the enclave there, with the Bosnians on the one side and the Serbs on the other. But the efforts in the enclave dealt with the different international organizations, which is different from what it is in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, the strength we have is the fact that it is all Canadians, and we're all focused on the same objective with the same priorities, and we have the projects that we're working on. This makes it a lot easier. At the same time, Afghanistan is a war zone that is quite different from the one in the old days of Bosnia. Bosnia was a war zone too, but not as complicated as the one in Afghanistan, because in Afghanistan it's asymmetrical, whereas over in Bosnia you still had the different groups, but they were distinct. In Afghanistan it's not the same.
Does that explain it?