Colonel (ret) Douglas Macgregor is a decorated combat veteran, the author of four books and a PhD. He is also Executive Vice President of Burke-Macgregor Group LLC, a consulting and intellectual capital brokerage firm based in Reston, VA. He was commissioned in the US Army in 1976 after one year at VMI and four years at West Point.
His groundbreaking books, Breaking the Phalanx (1997) and Transformation under Fire (2003) has influenced change inside America’s ground forces. His doctoral dissertation, The Soviet-East German Military Alliance, published as a book by Cambridge University Press in 1989.
In 1991, he was awarded the bronze star with “V” device for valor under fire with the Second Armored Cavalry Regiment that destroyed a full-strength Republican Guard Brigade on 26 February 1991. The Battle of the 73 Easting, the U.S. Army’s largest tank battle since World War II is the subject of his book, Warrior’s Rage. The Great Tank Battle of 73 Easting.
Macgregor has testified as an expert witness on national security issues before the House Armed Services and House Foreign Relations Committee. He is a frequent guest commentator on radio and television.
Col. Macgregor: US Poised to ATTACK Venezuela + Ukrainian Defenses COLLAPSE as Russians Advance
President Trump spoke on the phone with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro for just 15 minutes last month, and warned that he and his family had one week to flee the country, according to a report from Reuters. That deadline would have expired last Friday, when Trump announced on social media that Venezuelan airspace should be considered “closed in its entirety.”
Ret. U.S. Army Col. Douglas Macgregor said it appears the U.S. is “committed” to an attack on Venezuela, with nearly a dozen warships and 15,000 troops amassed in the Caribbean, and he suspects they don’t want to wait too long, and are “close to execution” of that planned attack