ARTICLE: Slow Start for Military Corps in Afghanistan, By ERIC SCHMITT, New York Times, January 5, 2010

The gist of the challenge:

But General McChrystal said through a spokesman that the effort had been "understaffed," and that he had also asked the branches of the military for their top performers. "We have to be willing to break traditional career models; we've literally got to break systems to do this," General McChrystal said.

Push now coming to shove for the SysAdmin effort in Afghanistan and the military's overall evolution in this direction. Inevitably, sufficient levels of political pain force the issue.