What is your view on how policy, budget and plans have come together to build capabilities to deter our adversaries?

Yeah.

So, Mark, it's a massive success story, but it's like many success stories, one born of necessity and it's incomplete.

After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the heads of state and government of NATO directed my predecessor, Todd Walters, immediately to generate such a plan.

I took command five days later, and so the story of my tenure was developing these plans.

The plans were put together in very short order, about a year, got them approved at the summit in Vilnius in 2023, and that has made all the difference.

We know what we need to build, we know what we gotta do, but now we've run into two challenges.

So