Col. Douglas Macgregor: NATO is an Appendage of Globalist Foreign Policy
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
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🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Col. Douglas Macgregor discusses the threat of globalism and how NATO has become instrumentalized to work as an appendage of globalist foreign policy run out of Washington and London. He provides his view on the current state of the war in Ukraine, how America is staring at armageddon financially, and multipolarity.
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About Col. Douglas Macgregor
Douglas Macgregor is a decorated combat veteran, the author of five books, a PhD, and a defense and foreign policy consultant. He was commissioned in the Regular Army in 1976 after 1 year at VMI and 4 years at West Point. In 2004, Macgregor retired with the rank of Colonel. In 2020, the President appointed Macgregor to serve as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense, a post he held until President Trump left office. He holds an MA in comparative politics and a PhD in international relations from the University of Virginia.
Macgregor is widely known inside the U.S., Europe, Israel, Russia, China and Korea for both his leadership in the Battle of 73 Easting, the U.S. Army’s largest tank battle since World War II, and for his ground breaking books on military transformation: Breaking the Phalanx (Praeger, 1997) and Transformation under Fire (Praeger, 2003). Macgregor’s recommendations for change in Force Design and “integrated all arms-all effects” operations have profoundly influenced force development in Israel, Russia and China. In 2010, Macgregor traveled to Seoul, Korea to advise the ROK Ministry of Defense on force design. In 2019, Transformation under Fire was selected by Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi, Chief of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), as the intellectual basis for IDF transformation. His fifth book, Margin of Victory: Five Battles that Changed the Face of Modern War from Naval Institute Press is available in Chinese, as well as, English and will soon appear in Hebrew.
In 28 years of service Macgregor taught in the Department of Social Sciences at West Point, commanded the 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry, and served as the Director of the Joint Operations Center at SHAPE during the 1999 Kosovo Air Campaign for which he was awarded the Defense Superior Service medal. In January 2002, at Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s insistence the USCENTCOM Commander listened to Colonel Macgregor’s concept for the offensive to seize Baghdad. The plan was largely adopted, but assumed no occupation of Iraq by U.S. Forces.
Macgregor has also testified as an expert witness before the Senate and House Armed Services Committees and appeared as a defense analyst on Fox News, CNN, BBC, Sky News and public radio. He is fluent in German.
*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
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| 0:00.0 | Geopolitics and Empire is joined by a man who needs little introduction by now, Colonel Douglas McGregor, |
| 0:06.2 | who's a decorated combat veteran, author of five books, a PhD, and the Defense-informed Policy. |
| 0:11.9 | Consultant, it's an honor to have you on geopolitics and Empire Colonel. |
| 0:15.9 | Thanks. |
| 0:17.3 | We met briefly this past spring in my home state of Illinois, where I attended an amazing |
| 0:23.0 | VIP event of yours organized by Olga Ravasi of a Serbian American Voters Alliance. |
| 0:28.1 | So shout out to her. |
| 0:30.1 | And you'll be attending, I think, in September 2nd, the next Rompal Institute conference in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:37.0 | So I plan to be there as well. So I urge |
| 0:39.5 | everyone to catch Colonel McGregor in person if you get the chance. And I like to start out sort of big |
| 0:46.9 | picture and then drill down in details. I'm often concerned and preoccupied with globalism and the |
| 0:52.9 | American empire. I know you talk about the threat |
| 0:56.1 | of globalism. It's almost as if the American Empire is the battering ram for globalism. Today, |
| 1:02.2 | it was reported that Alex and George Soros have maxed out their donations to Joe Biden for the next |
| 1:07.3 | elections. I've read stories like the USAID financing drag queen events in Ecuador. |
| 1:13.8 | You know, Washington and Brussels seem to be pushing for one-worldism everywhere. What are your |
| 1:18.4 | thoughts on globalism today? |
| 1:21.8 | Thoughts on globalism? That's a loaded question. First, I think we do need to define it a little bit. |
| 1:30.3 | The people that are today arguing for globalism were very similar to the people that wanted us to go to Vietnam. |
| 1:38.3 | Walt Rostow and his brother were advocates for going into Southeast Asia with a goal of building a new nation |
| 1:46.2 | on the foundations of South Vietnam. |
| 1:49.7 | We've been going through this process off and on much longer than people realize. |
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