Defense Secretary James Mattis has said he wants the Defense Department to provide an account of the total number of U.S. ground troops in Afghanistan before the agency fields additional service personnel to the South Asian country, Defense News reported Tuesday.

“The first thing I have to do is ‘level the bubble,’ and account for everybody that is on the ground there now, the idea being that we’re not going to have different pockets that we are accounting for,” said Mattis, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017.

“I’ll tell you what the total number is, and there is a number that I am authorized to go up to.”

The White House authorized Mattis in June to establish troop levels for Afghanistan but capped the total number of additional ground forces to be deployed at 3,900.

His remarks came a day after President Donald Trump unveiled a conditions-based strategy for South Asia that aims to advance use of military power, economic capability and diplomacy to ensure U.S. security and safety of allies.

Mattis told reporters Tuesday in Iraq that he has asked Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to draft a plan on how to carry out the president’s South Asian strategy, the report added.

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley has directed the U.S. Army to study gaps in the military branch’s electronic warfare capacity, Breaking Defense reported Monday.

The review commenced in April and explores active measures to detect, deceive and disrupt adversaries’ radio and radar platforms.

Col. Mark Dotson, EW capability manager at the Army Training and Doctrine Command, told Breaking Defense the service branch aims to determine shortfalls “in the integration of cyber, electronic warfare and intelligence.”

The Army’s Cyber Center at Fort Gordon, Georgia, and Intelligence Center at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, lead the review and will submit a timeline this week.

Dotson added the team aims to provide final recommendations to Milley in late 2017 or early 2018.

President Donald Trump has unveiled his administration’s new strategy for South Asia that seeks to advance use of military power, diplomacy, economic capability and intelligence to ensure U.S. security and safety of the country’s allies, DoD News reported Monday.

Trump told service personnel at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Virginia Monday the conditions-based strategy covers South Asian countries that include Afghanistan, India and Pakistan as well as nations in Central and Southeast Asia.

The president said the strategy is based on three precepts and those include a “plan for victory” for U.S. troops; opposition to a hasty exit from Afghanistan; and the need to address threats that emanate from the South Asian region.

Trump noted that the U.S. will collaborate with allies to prevent the re-emergence of “safe havens” for terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan and the use of nuclear weapons against the U.S. and partner nations.

The strategy will also steer away from nation-building policy and will not be based on a timetable, he added.

“We will not talk about numbers of troops or our plans for further military activities,” Trump said.

“Conditions on the ground, not arbitrary timetables, will guide our strategy from now on.”

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson has said he directed the U.S. Navy to implement an operational pause for all the service branch’s fleets worldwide after an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer collided with a merchant vessel off the coast of Singapore early Monday, DoD News reported Monday.

The collision between the USS John S. McCain destroyer and the Alnic MC tanker that occurred east of the Strait of Malacca and Singapore caused flooding to the communication rooms, berthing, machinery and other compartments due to the damage to warship’s hull.

The operational pause could last for up to two days and seeks to allow fleet commanders to evaluate safety measures in maritime operations, Richardson told reporters at the Pentagon.

Richardson, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2017, said he was “devastated” over the collision and asked Adm. Phil Davidson, commander of the U.S. Fleet Forces Command, to lead a comprehensive review of the incident.

The U.S. 7th fleet reported five injuries and 10 missing Navy sailors as a result of the collision.

The incident came two months after the Navy launched an investigation into the USS Fitzgerald guided missile destroyer’s collision with a Philippine-flagged container ship off the coast of Japan.