National Defence committee  I'm not sure how that is connected.

National Defence committee  I think there are some with logistics. As part of the NATO program, a group of allies offer up a C-17 capability as another example.

National Defence committee  That's correct.

National Defence committee  Very quickly, certainly NATO has an air policing program in which allies participate. Allies serve a six-month rotation in providing not only policing but being able to deploy aircraft to their region, so being able to fly that top cover in the Baltics.

National Defence committee  I think Haiti is a terrific example of how we have not only that physical capacity but the readiness capacity in that we were able to embark on something at fairly short notice with a fairly broad range of capability. Certainly within the alliance we bring some of those core capa

National Defence committee  Actually, I think that's a great set-up for General Abrial, Supreme Allied Commander, Transformation, who I think will be meeting with you later on in your session, because that's certainly very much really at the core of his mandate. If you go through his terms of reference abou

National Defence committee  I would certainly say both. You have SACT, or commander of transformation, but you also have SACEUR, commander of operations, who does very much that closer end look of the years ahead. Very much between the two of them, their remit is to provide military advice to both the milit

National Defence committee  I would not expect that at all.

National Defence committee  No, not at all.

National Defence committee  The three core task principles are collective defence, crisis management, and cooperative security. Crisis management has been a part of the robust set of political and military capabilities to direct toward crises. Cooperative security speaks more to outreach to partners and the

National Defence committee  We spoke earlier about capability packages and being able to deliver national and/or multinational capabilities with both the AWACS and the AGS. It's about a decision to invest or reinvest in that national capability.

National Defence committee  It's hard to say. AWACS has been in for a long time.

National Defence committee  I think we have a pretty impressive professional development program as to how we produce officers. I think we have a pretty robust framework similar to that of a healthy mix of both the U.K. and U.S. type of models. I think it's a pretty good professional development program.

National Defence committee  Thank you. Whether that fits within smart defence or within the broader discussions of this capability package and how we approach defence planning, which is part of that package, again it comes back to what those national capabilities are that nations would say they have invest

National Defence committee  It's a difficult question because I'd be somewhat biased. But I think in many respects it's about delivering those combat-capable troops, first and foremost, that can deploy to Afghanistan and can really do some of the heavy lifting without caveats and the like, through to an air