After Dr Mahathir Mohamad  became prime minister and articulated his Vision 2020 ambition, I became a great fan of the then-PM’s vision. I was enthralled by the Bangsa Malaysia challenge he articulated with the corresponding nine challenges. Actually, way back in 1971, I had articulated another version of that same idea in my undergraduate thesis - that we need 100 new Royal Military Colleges (RMCs) to really achieve national unity.