You may be on the right track. An increase in focus (especially funding shifts) towards Civil Affairs will provoke much squealing. Might as well get the structure right. Coordination problems will abound regardless; anything that will ease them is worthy of consideration. Incidentally, Praktike clipped an article (which I'll rename "high stakes testing: it's for special ed. students, not the Missile Defense Agency" that suggests one possible source for funding shifts - relatively few toes to step on, excepting Rummy's. Hardly insurmountable, given repeated test failures and Congress' opinion of his ability to properly employ Civil Affairs units...