Pretty much to be expected given his love of all things martial. Reminds me of one of the plot lines in "Footfall", where the government throws up its hands and turns the defense of Earth over to a bunch of science fiction authors, because why not? No way Pournelle could have resisted the temptation to exploit his "status as [a] 20th Century seer[s]" to live the dream as a real-life gee-whiz jeepers! presidential adviser.

Sometimes you do have to hold a writer responsible; you can't pretend that widely-read writers don't have a real impact in the world. I still haven't seen the movie "Ender's Game" because Orson Scott Card has turned out to be such a malignant creep. It's hard to completely separate the author from the work in the real world, and knowing the author is a jerk really can spoil the enjoyment of their work.