(Come see Col. Macgregor LIVE at the Ron Paul Institute Sept 2nd DC Conference!)Incrementalism—the tendency to inch forward rather than to take bold steps—is usually preferred by political and military leaders in warfare, because the introduction of a few forces into...
Douglas Macgregor
Americans Must Choose
by Douglas Macgregor | Apr 5, 2023 | Featured Articles
Choosing war is the most important policy decision Washington makes on behalf of the American people. War profoundly affects the domestic economy, and the human carnage it creates is not limited to foreign soil. Yet, the last time American voters compelled a...
This Time It’s Different
by Douglas Macgregor | Jan 27, 2023 | Featured Articles
Until it decided to confront Moscow with an existential military threat in Ukraine, Washington confined the use of American military power to conflicts that Americans could afford to lose, wars with weak opponents in the developing world from Saigon to Baghdad that...
Washington Is Prolonging Ukraine's Suffering
by Douglas Macgregor | Dec 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
During a speech given on November 29, Polish Vice-Minister of National Defense (MON) Marcin Ociepa said: "The probability of a war in which we will be involved is very high. Too high for us to treat this scenario only hypothetically." The Polish MON is allegedly...
Washington’s Carthaginian Peace Collides With Reality
by Douglas Macgregor | Dec 1, 2022 | Featured Articles
The national political and military leaders who committed America to wars of choice in Vietnam, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq, did so as a rule because they were convinced the fighting would be short and decisive. American presidents, presidential advisors, and...
Playing at War in Ukraine
by Douglas Macgregor | Oct 25, 2022 | Featured Articles
As the astute author Hunter S. Thompson noted, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” Weird is indisputably the condition in Great Britain, where Liz Truss, an arguably empty and talentless prime minister, is out—and was, it seemed for a moment, very nearly...
War and Regrets in Ukraine
by Douglas Macgregor | Oct 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
Of the Vietnam War, Henry Kissinger, former national security advisor and secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford, said, “We should never have been there.” Before long, Americans, even the politicians inside the Beltway, will reach the same conclusion about...
Reinforcing Failure in Ukraine
by Douglas Macgregor | Aug 24, 2022 | Featured Articles
US Military loading HIMARS rockets for UkraineIn an open letter entitled “US must arm Ukraine now, before it’s too late” 20 notable American advocates for the war against Russia in Ukraine argue that the conflict has reached a decisive moment. To win, the authors...
Worshipping Dead Horses
by Douglas Macgregor | Jul 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, known to history as Caligula, ruled as the Emperor of Rome from A.D. 37 to 41. For those who are unaware, Caligula, the great grandson of Rome’s first emperor, the brilliant Augustus Caesar, squandered the enormous wealth of the Roman...
When The Lies Come Home
by Douglas Macgregor | Jun 18, 2022 | Featured Articles
Diogenes, one of the ancient world’s illustrious philosophers, believed that lies were the currency of politics, and those lies were the ones he sought to expose and debase. To make his point, Diogenes occasionally carried a lit lantern through the streets of Athens...
30 Years With No Strategy Brought Us the War in Ukraine
by Douglas Macgregor | May 25, 2022 | Featured Articles
Washington DC has not excelled in grand strategy; the art and science of cost-effectively employing the diplomatic, economic, and informational powers of the United States in combination with its armed forces to secure its national goals and interests. Most of the...
With All Due Respect
by Douglas Macgregor | Oct 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
Presidents usually get the generals they want. In the last election, though, the generals got the president they wanted. Or, at least, so they thought. It’s easy to understand. President Trump was a menace to the generals, especially the four stars in the Army and the...
Soldiers of France
by Douglas Macgregor | May 12, 2021 | Featured Articles
Pessimistic observers of western nation-states express the doubt that in the post-COVID world, a reversal of fortune is possible—a return to historic national strength and greatness in the United States and Europe. The Chinese are certainly convinced that the...
The Ukraine Crisis Can Be An Opportunity
by Douglas Macgregor | Apr 26, 2021 | Featured Articles
The trouble with leading a great power is that, from time to time, the president is obliged to act like the leader of a great power. If ever there was a time for sound presidential leadership, it’s now. With no appreciation for the endlessly renewable force of...
Facing The Facts Of War With Russia
by Douglas Macgregor | Apr 13, 2021 | Featured Articles
Conflict with Russia may be inevitable. Kiev’s strident threats to resolve the crisis in Eastern Ukraine with force of arms, combined with Washington’s refusal to acknowledge that Moscow actually has legitimate national security interests in Eastern Ukraine, makes it...
Why Do We Fight? How Do We Fight?
by Douglas Macgregor | May 25, 2019 | Featured Articles
Today’s political and military leaders have no choice but to project technology and strategic conditions into the future while they develop their forces today. However, before such multi-billion dollar investments are made, critical questions should be answered. What...
John Bolton is the Problem
by Douglas Macgregor | May 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
Thanks in large part to John Bolton, America, the global cop, is back on the beat. This time it’s the Caribbean and the Persian Gulf in a near-simultaneous demonstration of resolve. For Bolton, President’s Trump national security adviser, Venezuela is an exceptionally...
Make Donald Trump Great Again
by Douglas Macgregor | Apr 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
Candidate Donald Trump won the presidency because he talked tough in ways no presidential candidate has done in recent memory, maybe ever. Trump left no sacred cow unscathed with searing attacks on the Iraq War, bad trade deals, Sen. John McCain, and the most sacred...
NATO Is Not Dying. It’s a Zombie.
by Douglas Macgregor | Apr 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
How do you know when a person is positively dead? Well, check for a pulse. Walter Russell Mead checked the pulse of the Atlantic Alliance in a recent op-ed and concluded that NATO is dying. But Mead is wrong. NATO is simply a zombie periodically reanimated through...
The Case for Leaving Syria
by Douglas Macgregor | Nov 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
Professor Michael Howard, the eminent British historian, frequently stated , “Wars are not tactical exercises writ large… They are conflicts of societies, and they can be fully understood only if one understands the nature of the society fighting them.” The professor...
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