Well, he was right about one thing. I remember after the terrorist attack on the USS Cole, Hackworth went ballistic on TV, slamming the Clinton administration for doing little to nothing about terrorism. He predicted, at that time, that terrorism was going to be THE major force that needed to be dealt with, ASAP.
Now, though, he seems to make no sense when he's on TV. He's all over the place! On one hand, he predicts a bad outcome in Iraq, because he feels that, like Vietnam, "we don't know the enemy" and "we won't have a clear idea of why we're there." (I heard him say this on some Fox show, I can't remember which one.)
THEN, in the next breath, Hackworth predicted the war in Iraq would hardly have started before it was over with, presumably because of OUR strength, and THEIR weakness. Since I doubt he was predicting a Hussein victory here, I can't figure out what, exactly, he meant regarding his concerns for going to war with Iraq.