Defense and the National Interest

An interview with Steve Paikin on Ontario public television.
Streaming video - takes about half an hour (you’ll need a good broadband connection, but well worth a few hiccoughs).

Statement Submitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight
By: Douglas Macgregor, PhD, Colonel (ret) U.S. Army
February 8, 2008
Click here to download (68 KB PDF)
COL MacGregor provides a penetrating analysis of the implications of ad-hoc agreements with the current Iraqi government. We can’t say we weren’t warned.

Two insiders of the “military reform movement” of the 1970s and ’80s have written what amounts to a tell-all: Who was in the movement, who supported it, and who claimed to support it but in the end betrayed it. The military reform movement, for those unfamiliar with the term, was a bi-partisan [...]

Retired US Army COL Doug Macgregor has just published a critical look at this issue.
While the arrangement reached by U.S. military commanders and dubbed the “Great Awakening” has allowed the administration and its allies to declare the surge a success, it carries long-term consequences that are worrisome, if not perilous. The reduction in U.S. casualties [...]