Now, once again, I will state my opinion on the senior leadership question.
The report claims that 50% of the current intake is from DEO officers. This means that today, some level less than 50% is made up of RMC grads and the rest are ROTP civi-U, CFR, UTPNCM, and CEOTP. It will be interesting to see in 20 years what portion of our senior officers are RMC grads.
Alas, to answer why 62% of our current senior office corp is made up of milcol grads, we need to look into the past, and I wish we had the data for this. I imagine that when we had 3 milcols open before 1995, that the proportion of the officer corps made up of milcol grads was higher than it is today. Whatever the number was 20-25-30 years ago, if it is less than 62% (which I suspect it was), then a disproportionate number of the senior officer corps came from milcols.
If, as the report suggests, both milcol grads and officers from other entry schemes perform at the same level, than I can only imagine the reason for the disproportion is either:
A. Milcol grads enjoy being in the military more (or the inverse, that is, non-milcol grads dislike being in the military more);
B. Nepotism.
Now, I've seen examples of nepotism in the military, but as I've said earlier, the examples I've seen have been between friends, and not everyone who went to milcol together are "automatically" friends, nor do we automatically look out for each other.
So, I would say it is more likely A. Everything we do in life is based on self-interest, and apparently, if you rule out milcol centric nepotism, it has been in the self-interest of a greater number of milcol grads to stay in the military than non-milcol grads. Why is this? You could isolate their self-interest a number of ways. Why do they enjoy the military more? Do they get along with people in the military more? Do they see greater opportunity for career growth? Do they feel more a part of the institution? Do they get more respect for having gone to milcol? Do they find it easier working in the military structure? Do they find it easier to socialize, network, and work with the rest of the military community?
It could be one, or more, or all of these, but my opinion is that whatever the prime reason or reasons, they stem from the influence RMC (or CMR or RRMC) had on them, and more specially, I believe that milcol had a greater influence on their sense of belonging to the institution than going to civi-U (either ROTP or DEO), and this sense of belonging is further reinforced by the social aspect of having attended milcol; we run into former cadets all the time, and this reinforces our sense of belonging to this "community".
For those who may find my words insensitive, I once again stress that I am not saying that non-milcol grads lack a sense "immersion" or "belonging" with the CAF. Across the board, there are those that do, and those that don't, and I'm just saying that a small percentage more were milcol grads.
This is my opinion, and I'm leaving it open for debate. It's based on whatever I could glean from the report, my experience, and whatever logical and rationale I could throw in.