Brilliant, huh?
Not exactly brilliant. He just thought it was a good idea at the time.
When people talk about what a good idea it is to integrate women into military combat units because there are rules, regulations and punishments in place to prevent sexual affairs, one only has to look at what sex will cause a supposedly brilliant man, loving father, faithful husband (and so on) to do for a sexual act.
Heck. People have unprotected sex with strangers knowing full well intellectually there are things that can kill them and things that can destroy their life if they aren’t killed, but...they do it anyway.
Case in point.