. >> steven donahue from mclarty associates. would you talk a little more about how the army is preparing its soldiers in the transition from combat operations to the peace-time army if there is such a thing so that they don't lose their morale, they maintain their proficiency, and just -- and also how we're helping our allies think about that in their own forces. >> great points. and of course you know, we were anticipating obviously a post-war period, right? even just a year ago, a little bit over a year ago. and if you look at what has occurred since that time, we mentioned russia and its actions earlier, i think we see that i think everybody recognizes that it's narcissistic to think if you leave a war it stops, that in fact wars continue even after you leave. if you leave a movie in the middle the movie's still playing. so i think we've seen that dynamic in iraq and we're anticipating a continued contested environment in afghanistan although i think there have been some very promising developments there regionally and with