One of the points he makes is that the American population is getting dumber. A segment here go out of their way to prove that point...:-)
After teaching as a professor of social sciences at USMA, he was promoted to major . He also earned a place at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth , where he graduated in 1989. In the same year he was ordered to the 2nd cavalry regiment in Germany, where he was initially employed as a regimental adjutant and from 1990 as operations officer of the 2nd squadron.
He took part in the Second Gulf War as an operations officer ( S3 officer ) of armored units (2nd Squadron of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment). In February 1991, as part of what was later called the Battle of 73 Easting , the unit he led destroyed 70 Iraqi armored vehicles in a battle lasting around 23 minutes without suffering any casualties. [8] He took an unconventional approach, anticipating the movements of the Iraqi unit. [9] For this he received the Bronze Star Medal with Combat Distinguishing Device .
From June 1991 to June 1992, Macgregor worked as a special assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Concepts, Doctrine, and Developments at the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) at Fort Monroe . In June 1992, the US Army placed him in command of the 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division , Fort Riley . He left that role in July 1994 to serve as Forces Team Chief in the War Plans Division of the Operations Section 12 of the Army Staff . In April 1995 he became a Fellow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The following November, the US Army promoted him to the rank of colonel . From November 1996 to October 1997 he worked as Deputy Director of the Command and Control Battle Lab at Fort Leavenworth, in the same period of the following year in the Future Plans Division (J5) at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Brussels .
Under the command of Wesley Clark , he served from October 1998 to January 2000 as Chief Planning Officer - Director of the SHAPE Joint Operations Center (JOC) - for the deployment of NATO forces in the Kosovo War . For this he received the Defense Superior Service Medal . [10] From February 2000 he worked as a special assistant for the Department of Defense at the National Defense University in Washington, DC , [11] later there at the Institute for National Strategic Studies [12] and at the Center for Technology and National Security Policyas a senior research fellow . [13] In June 2004, the US Army decommissioned Macgregor. He is currently Executive Vice President of consulting firm Burke-Macgregor Group LLC . [14]
MacGregor probably took on too many of Wesley Clark's crazy left wing ideas.
He knows how the entire panoply of NATO resources are mobilized, transported and deployed. My fear is we are totally mobilized, sitting at our failsafe positions and rather than hitting a barn that errant Uke rocket takes out the 101st command and control? I think we came very close to war that night. This guy obviously has similar concerns. If you look at this jingoistic, destabilizing and threatening mobilization and deployment of NATO assets on the Russian frontier it is breathtaking to behold. Any NATO incursion into Russia will be stopped with theater nukes. It is the Reagan Thatcher defense on the cheap for massively superior armor arrayed against you. Historically, a perfect storm for a Russian pre emptive strike.
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_136388.htm