Leaders for Divisions or Divisions for Leaders (is the premise wrong?)

[Carrington]

This is a re-post of a thought that seems to have ended a thread...

Just some thinking about the leader issue -- the new division system seems odd in that you have to wait for leaders to create divisions.

At the Division/Brigade level at least. Shouldn't it be the other way around: you create forces, then 'promote'/create leaders to lead them?

In sum, I wonder if leader recruitment should depend on the number of extant forces (and leader replacement occur when a leader is promoted out of his slot) instead of having the influx of leaders every six months drive the number of forces.

I realize this would be a major change, and the game certainly is playable as is, but it seemed worth floating the idea.