Sparapet,

Thank you for the observation and this sentence acted as a catalyst for my comment:
I am still perplexed by how a KLE is different from an international negotiation.....
With very few exceptions the Western military have a very limited experience of international negotiation, so would IMHO not consider learning from that arena and maybe not from "Foggy Bottom" either.

I recall in my student studies of the SALT process the references to exchanges between Soviet and US diplomats that the Soviet military had not given a full picture of their forces, which made the talks rather difficult.

Incidentally you may find the just updated thread on Political Officers useful.