del whichmen and canada are also making contributions to the strike mission. these countries have and their constrained resources found a way to do the training and buy the equipment and field the forms to make a military -- a military constitution. and despite need support ongoing missions, as has been evidenced, too many allies have been unwilling to fundamentally change how they set priorities and allocate resources. the non-u.s. nato members collectively spend -- annually on defense which is allocated -- if allocated wisely and strategically could provide much more. instead the results are significantly less than the sum of the parts. the -- ensuring -- looking ahead, to avoid the very real possibility of collecting military irrelevance, we must approach new ways of combat capability in procurement and logistics and sustainment. while it's clear the military should do more, initiatives are not a pan aas ia. in the final analysis there's no -- for resources necessary to have the military capability the alliance needs when faced with the security challenge.