Thank you very much, sir, for the question.
Yes, we serve both on NATO and within United Nation frameworks. Coalitions themselves will seek international frameworks to operate. Even nationally we will seek an international framework, and we'll operate within international norms, and to international law, and the law of armed conflict in the Geneva Conventions. All these are expressions of a professional military force of a western, democratic, rules-based country seeking legitimacy in its mission. The NATO alliance represents both a political and a military command and control structure, but it too seeks legitimacy under the law of armed conflict and under the United Nations Security Council resolutions. The UN is very much a foundational platform upon which to build legitimacy. From that, the alliances, or the coalitions, build their command and control, always linking legitimacy, mission, and task to the UN Security Council resolutions, which highlight whatever the security or the humanitarian need is in a particular conflict scenario.
The United Nations does have military peace support and peacekeeping-type operations around the world. Personally, I have not participated in any direct UN-style missions like the peacekeeping in Rwanda and General Dallaire's experience, but there are specific peace support and peacekeeping operations. In my own experience in modern times, I think that because of the grave security situation in most conflict scenarios today, because of how threat scenarios have escalated to very high levels of risk to our personnel and to our capabilities, we have sought traditionally the more coherent command and control structures of NATO so that we can assure our safety as we go for the mission outcome.
I'll leave it at that, sir.