It depends on the situation, but generally speaking—the chief of the defence staff has pointed this out—we are very stretched as it is.
Now, there was an ambition within the 2017 policy to have concurrency of operations, for us to be able to do two major operations at once. We are strained to do this. We simply do not have the personnel to do this. Our recruitment and retention numbers are simply not where they need to be to make that possible.
Let's leave aside equipment for a second. If you don't actually have the people to use the equipment over the long term, that equipment is useless. Capability is not simply equipment. Capability is people to use the equipment, people to maintain the equipment, people to prepare to buy future equipment. If we are so solely focused on the hardware, we lose track of the overall picture.
As my colleague, Professor Kimball, pointed out, if we are not making every effort to include everybody who can possibly join the forces and make this a career that they want, we will not be prepared for anything that's going to be thrown at us in the future.