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regarding those rumors, that's a surprise to me - and frankly, I wasn't expecting to read something like that here on the freep.

I've his book, "Beyond Terror"; the backflap containing the author's synopsis of bona-fides show his career to have been centered on intel and liaison. Being a Mariner myself (Navy & Coast Guard, 24 years), my experience tells me it would not be uncommon for an officer to have a career where he wasn't on the "line-command" track - and his retirement as a Lt-Colonel indicates that he probably got as far as he could without the line command experience. But I've never heard that he couldn't hack it leading troops... and his writing is some of the clearest (right up there with Victor Hanson and Thomas Sowell, imo) I've had the pleasure of perusing.

If anything, I'd say there is a lack of multiple perspective in his writing... but that's no crime in my book, and just means that he's perfectly comfortable in his Jacksonian (to paraphrase Walter R. Meads excellent archetypal description of American Foreign Policy characteristics) role. Much the same as I am (and I do consider myself a walking poster-boy for Mead's Jacksonian: "...I'll gladly live in peace with you, share with you from my bounty and together we can prosper... but fuck with me or mine and I'll destroy you...").

LCOL Peters is a soldier first and foremost - thought I don't know him, of course. But it seems to me that when there's "Soldiers Business" to be had, there's only one way to get it done... and Peters shows that he knows this better than most.

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