Peters makes a great emotional connection with his fiction as well. It tends to be sparse on specifics and deep in emotion, which makes for a good read but one that often leaves you without a firm sense of place or space but very deep characters (IMO, anyhow).

I've found this with both his Peters stuff and the Civil War stuff he did under the name Parry. I think he carries this trend over into his policy commentary. His earlier writing on fighting warrior societies had the feel of being somewhat visionary and was saying things that (at the time) weren't being understood in many quarters. Since then I got the feeling that he's been trying to recapture that moment.

Just my take, anyhow, and apologies for derailing the thread....