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# Posted 10:58 AM by Patrick Belton

SCHOO! MAKE WAY FOR GEN. SCHOOMAKER: Okay, not to fawn, but....naah, I'll fawn. Former special operations command head and Delta Force chief Peter Schoomaker may just be such a good candidate to lead the Army that it's hard to think of how he could even be any better. General Schoomaker enjoys a reputation as an agile, innovative thinker; his special operations background is in the portion of the army which most embodies the flexible, highly mobile army into which the Secretary of Defense would like to help transform the current conventional army. Here's a round-up: an article he wrote on the challenges facing SOCOM (special operations command), an article from 1999 focusing on him, a piece on mil-mil contact with China in which he figures prominently, the Welch Commision report he partly wrote on giving special operations command a larger role in the war on terror, reportage from Waco mentioning him, NYT , the Telegraph, his bio.

UPDATE: David just pointed out to me that Phil Carter has a thoughtful post on Secretary Rumsfeld's appointment of a retired general over the army's serving three- and four-stars as possibly portending another episode of power struggle between the civilian appointees (and army chief) who push a quick pace of defense transformation, and serving brass who favor a slower pace.

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