Perhaps I can add to that.
I've done some research about soft skills in comprehensive operations. A lot of the operations that the military, especially the Canadian military, are involved with are not necessarily war missions, or only war missions, or only combat operations, so you need to have a very diverse set of skills. Cultural skills would be one of them, with the ability to communicate with diverse people. There are all sorts of skills that are not necessarily all found in one type of person.
As Dr. Okros said, those multiple perspectives on a team will actually be an advantage when you're deployed to an operation and you're trying to build consensus and trying to win the hearts and minds of the people. It's not necessarily just combat.