A few years ago we put in place a program called gender-based awareness plus. It strove to allow commanders and staff to realize that there are different segments of the populations we'll be operating within, and we need to recognize they will all have a different perception of what's going on. If we're in a given country, just addressing issues that deal with a predominantly male hierarchical structure will ignore large portions of the population that we need to support us for our mission to succeed.
We want to understand, for example, if we have a significant population of displaced personnel, single mothers or people whose male family members have been killed in 10 years of fighting, how they will perceive our actions and our plans as we come into a different area. Do we need to tailor the soldiers they'll interact with on the ground? Do we need to set up specific programs, shelters, assistance for these elements of the population to convince the local population that we're here to help them entirely and not to reinforce an existing structure?