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South Viet Nam's version of West Point, the National Military Academy at Dalat, has added two years to its curriculum—plus the innovation that officer candidates can be flunked if they fail to measure up. Next year South Viet Nam will begin its version of a war college for mid-career officers. So high is the enthusiasm for it that the general in charge of central ARVN training wants to be in the first batch of students. Americans in Viet Nam like to recall that only a little more than a decade ago there was an army with much the same set of problems now plaguing South Viet Nam: the Koreans, today as feared by the Viet Cong as any soldiers fighting in Viet Nam. Though the South Vietnamese army has a long way to go to measure up to its potential, U.S. advisers take heart from its new efforts.