Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, I don't have that answer. I'll ask Admiral Auchterlonie; perhaps he does.

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, one of the success stories that we saw, or one of the points to sustain out of this operation, was the daily interdepartmental task force meetings at the assistant deputy minister level. If not daily, almost every second day at the deputy minister-CDS level, we had to

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, as you will remember, we conduct after-action reviews at each level. SOFCOM conducted their own after action review. CJOC conducted their own, and we did a Canadian Armed Forces one led by SJS.

Afghanistan committee  It is a classified report. I'm not sure of the rules that surround that. We'll have to take that one away and find out what the rules are.

Afghanistan committee  We provided input to a PCO-led post-operation review. I have not seen the output of that.

Afghanistan committee  Yes.

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, as you know, during the election period the minister retained his authorities as minister, so where we sought authorities from and the daily briefings did not change. Probably the most challenging aspect was the ability to communicate and the tighter control on the ab

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, from our time that we served there together in Kandahar, I am not surprised. They have not changed their approach from when they ruled the country in the 1990s.

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, I've been thinking about this question for the last 15 years, since serving there in 2007. It could be a number of different areas, but I'm not sure the premise of “where did we fail” is accurate because we provided some excellent training and some excellent equipment.

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, I was actually on the ground in Afghanistan in 2014 when we lowered the flag at ISAF headquarters and the Canadians moved out. That's when Operation Addenda was established to provide force protection for the Canadian embassy. I do not know the exact year that we tra

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, Operation Aegis began on July 30, with me issuing what's called a CDS directive, to begin the operation, which was focused on the evacuation.

Afghanistan committee  We generally don't give named operations to a strategic advisory team with an embassy.

Afghanistan committee  Yes.

Afghanistan committee  On July 27, we received a request for assistance to support this operation from GAC and IRCC, so DND and CAF were in support.

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, for reasons of operational security, we're not going to get into the exact composition of the team, but I'm going to turn it over to the commander of our special operations forces command, Major General Steve Boivin, to say what he can without compromising us.