Very much so! Even most of his peers consider him the most well-read man they know - and he doesn’t just read Thucydides, Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, Mahan, etc.
The strategy of a man has its origin in a deep part of the thought process. In this case it is about a commitment to the higher nature of man, thus refuting temptations to action, based on the desires of other people.
No good military man can allow himself to be baited or co-erst.