The problem with putting senior ADF officers in these positions is that ADF officers come from a background in which the people around them are generally loyal, genuinely respectful and generally committed to supporting each other to achieve a common and altruistic goal. It doesn't work when you expect them to, for example, "lead" a bunch of self-interested, back-stabbing sociopaths and narcissists. Just doesn't work. They won't be lead. They're not motivated by the things that motivate the people in the ADF. Venus/Mars stuff.
Sounds awfully like the ongoing saga with the DAS appointment at CASA.
