Future Defense Visions

General examination of future defense trends and
considerations for reform to achieve maximum efficiency.

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Interview with Col. Douglas Macgregor (Ret.) about the state of US armed forces

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February 24, 2015 by Campaign This past weekend Right on Defense sent national security expert, decorated combat veteran, n...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Beyond Bribery

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 Argument  It’s time to start fighting the most insidious form of corruption -- the kind that’s legal.  By Janine R. Wedel   Feb...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

Our Army’s Headed for Collapse Here’s how to fix it.

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When markets crash, when economic indicators fall by double digits, investors panic, stocks drop like rocks and governments teeter on the ...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Five Rules for Defense Spending

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   BreakingDefense.com January 26, 2015 By DOUG MACGREGOR In 1796 Thomas Jefferson said there were two types of American political part...
Saturday, November 1, 2014

Revenge of the COIN Doctrine

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John Nagl's counterinsurgency failed its way to popularity before, and is now trying to make a comeback. By Kelley Vlahos • October ...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

ABC7/NewsChannel 8 Town Hall generates lively discussion over ISIL terror threat

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ARLINGTON, Va. (WJLA) – Town Hall meetings being town hall meetings, they often veer from the planned tenor and morph into riveting-yet-u...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Building Army Forces for Future War

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Oct. 13, 2014 - 12:47PM   |   By retired Col. DOUGLAS MACGREGOR Twenty-threeyears after the first Gulf War, Americ...
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Douglas A. Macgregor, Ph.D.
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.
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