Richard Perle: The Making of a Neoconservative
Decide for yourself whether he was good at it.
Perle: "Well, I haven’t seen any reference to chicken doves, so I assume that it’s only if you take a hawkish position that the fact that you did not serve in the military is held against you. I think it’s an intimidating McCarthyite tactic. It tries to de-legitimize the views of people on an entirely irrelevant measure."
No, he wasn't good at it. Apparently service is entirely irrelevant to some who didn't serve. Lock and load, think-tank soldier.