Was I kidding about the military’s Industrial Era personnel policies?

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/12/02/was-i-kidding-about-the-militarys-industrial-era-personnel-policies/

BY THOMAS E. RICKS, DECEMBER 2, 2015

Check out this story from Barno & Bensahel, the dynamic duo of military policy commentary: Army lieutenant is told he won’t be promoted because of two year gap in his military career — while he was at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.