I'm not arguing that. :-) Especially watching him in action now. But he did hold a high profile J-3 position (I think) on the Joint Staff.
When Newbold refused to continue giving briefings to the press after being kidded by Rumsfeld and Myers about saying the Taliban had been eviscerated he showed his hand of being a thing skinned, immature, weasel. Any stock he had prior to that went right down the s****er.