Future Defense Visions

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

Friday, September 25, 2015

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Our armed forces are legacies of the Second World War with a departmental scheme designed in 1947 to obstruct the emergence of a national ...
Friday, September 18, 2015

U.S. Army Crosses Danube in Hungary in Show of Force

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The best we can offer is a small unit of armored trucks. The truck mounted infantry are cooperating with Hungarian forces to combat “Hy...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Town Hall, America: State of Affairs on Iran Nuclear Deal

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  By Sinclair Broadcast Group Staff  Wednesday, September 9th 2015         WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) — After a day...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Army Reserve Senior Leader’s Conference

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USAR Commander’s Conference from 14-16 Sep in Alexandria, VA.   For more info: http://douglasmacgregor.com/USAR.ppt  
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Obama escalates the war in Syria without Congress

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  GENERAL COMMENT:  Obama is doing now what’s he’s done thus far.  He’s doing only enough to silence his critics and to convey the impr...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Putin Rebuilds Russia’s Military While US Strategy Is All Over Map

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In his 1940 book,  The New World Order , H.G. Wells wrote, “I think that in the decades before 1914 not only I but most of my generation...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

Forcing the Army to Innovate

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  by Matthew Fay  Last week retired Army Col. Douglas MacGregor had a fascinating article in Defense One calling for major chang...
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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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