Hey, everybody, I'm very, very happy to be here today with a special guest, Colonel Douglas McGregor,

is a decorated combat veteran. The author of five books, a PhD and an offense and foreign policy

consultant. He was commissioned in the regular army in 1976 after one year of the Virginia

military and four years at West Point in 2004. McGregor retired with the rank of Colonel.

In 2020, the president appointed McGregor to serve as a senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense.

He holds an MA in comparative politics and a PhD in international relations from the universe

of Virginia. McGregor is widely known inside the US, Europe, Israel, Russia, China, and Korea for

both his leadership in the Battle of 73 Easting, US Army's largest tank battle in World War II,

in which Colonel McGregor commanded the tank and a unit of, I think, 19 tanks and about.

There actually was 1,100 men with 42 tanks, 42 Bradley's and eight guns.

I believe it was during a sandstorm in the middle of the night.

Well, I was in the sandstorm late in the afternoon, but the battle lasted for over three hours

and we did have one man killed six wounded and we lost a Bradley in infantry fighting vehicle.

So he is a war fighter. He's written groundbreaking books on military transformation.

One of them, the breaking the phalanx from 1997 and transformation under fire in 2003.

I'm a Gregor's recommendations for change in force design and integrated all arms effects

operations of profoundly influenced force development in Israel, Russia, and China.

In 2010, Colonel McGregor traveled to Seoul, Korea to advise the Republic of Korea

and its defense force design transformation under fire was selected by Lieutenant

Avi of the chief of the Israeli defense forces as the intellectual basis for the transformation

of that military force. In 28 years of service, McGregor taught in the Department of Social

Sciences at West Point and commanded the first squadron fourth cavalry and serves as director

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