Initial Officer Selection

[JMA]

What would you do in long phases of peace without an low intensity conflict which would give the best opportunity for selection? How can we implement something that resembles the "real" thing ??

Well that is really the situation as it stands now. Despite having a war (the US and the Brits certainly) to test and blood their young officers do these countries seize the opportunity to step away from the peacetime assessment and use the war to test their junior officers to validate (or otherwise) the peacetime selection process?

The question is whether the peacetime selection criteria used throughout the service produce the desired outcomes.