Thanks - I personally think it was brilliant!!!!!!! But it also had little or no chance of being adopted because it ran afoul of the US military perception/culture at the time and of the ESAF military culture. What made it doable with the ESAF, IMO, is that it could have been bent to meet their cultural perceptions. Unfortunately, I was never in a position to find a champion I could convince to take it up. My bosses in the ESAF Assessment team would have felt (my belief or perhaps excuse) that it was too radical and/or they were not willling to expend the political capital to make it happen after Wag's try at using junior officers and an OCS.

Cheers

JohnT

PS I like your lawfirm analogy. Works for a large element of the university as well.