Palpatine: Genius or Madman?

[nightmare]

It doesn't get any better in the Bug War (current end of the NJO), where a Killik strike force of forty thousand is supposed to be some uber force of doom. Apparently, fifteen vessels the size of an Executor, a single captured and damaged Mon Mothma Star Destroyer, and 40,000 troops can plunge the entire galaxy into eternal warfare .

I don't recall exactly, is the bug thing a year or two after the end of the Vong war? The GFFA might not have rebuilt much after the collapse of the NR. Tough I think there's some quote implying they did... hmm... nah, I don't care enough to go dig it up. Chalk it up to more stupidity.