Yeah, but that's not surprising for a guy that was an MI dweeb and never served (AFAIK) as a combat arms soldier. For someone who has not been infantry of special ops, he has a pretty good grasp of what the boys are doing, and why it's the right thing to do.
Wasn't it Peters that wrote the lame story in a book of short fiction on future war, that had superhuman female infantrypersons saving helpless males with the help of their (I am not making this up) autonomous Shinseki combat vehicles? Although there was some internal consistency in this, in that the Army will be naming anything after Shinseki around the time women are ready for ground combat, and break the men's records at the Olympics....
As far as SECDEFs are concerned -- the only good thing about Cohen, who was a loser's loser, is that he wasn't as bad as Aspin, who was worth two divisions, an air wing, and a carrier task force to any enemy of ours. The only good thing about Aspin is that he had the human decency to feel guilt and shame when his ineptitude led to American deaths.
Neither of those two bozos was fit to shine Rummy's shoes. But they also weren't the worst SecDefs ever; I don't believe Robert S. Macnamara can ever be matched, let alone excelled.
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For every clinker of a story or article he writes he writes a ton of good stuff.
I can still see him on a talking head show, being asked about what we should do with the terrs that had attack the US, he simply stated "Kill them" end of interview segment and it was 4 months before I saw him on TV again.