38 Facts About Douglas Macgregor

Douglas Abbott Macgregor was born on January 4,1947 and is a retired colonel in the United States Army, former government official, author, consultant, and political commentator.

An Armor Branch officer by background, Macgregor was a leader in an early tank battle in the Gulf War and was a top planner in the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

On November 11,2020, a Pentagon spokesperson announced that Douglas Macgregor had been hired to serve as senior advisor to the acting secretary of defense, a post he held for less than three months.

Douglas Macgregor's commentary has been noted for placing a lower significance on Ukraine, illegal immigrants and refugees than competing priorities in terms of overall US foreign relations considerations.

Douglas Abbott Macgregor was born on January 4,1947, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Douglas Macgregor received his PhD from the University of Virginia in international relations in 1987.

Douglas Macgregor was the "squadron operations officer who essentially directed the Battle of 73 Easting" during the Gulf War.

Douglas Macgregor was at the front center of the formation with Eagle Troop on the right and Ghost Troop on the left.

Douglas Macgregor designated Eagle Troop the main attack and positioned himself to its left.

Douglas Macgregor "became prominent inside the Army" when his book Breaking the Phalanx was published in 1997, arguing for radical reforms.

Douglas Macgregor was an important planner for General Wesley Clark, the military commander of NATO, during the 1999 intervention in Yugoslavia.

Douglas Macgregor is the vice president of Burke-Douglas Macgregor, LLC, a consulting firm based in Reston, Virginia.

Douglas Macgregor argued that the military capability and pertinence of the Marines, along with Army's XVIII Airborne Corps, made them both "as relevant as the Army's horse cavalry in the 1930s".

Douglas Macgregor has appeared as a regular guest on Fox News, with at least 60 Fox weekday appearances from August 2017 to early 2022, including 48 on Tucker Carlson's show.

Carlson regularly praised Douglas Macgregor, describing him as "our first choice for foreign policy analysis" and "one of the people we trust to give us real information".

In May 2019, on the Carlson show, Douglas Macgregor urged Trump to replace senior national security officials, describing them as "part of this bipartisan globalist elite".

When John Bolton was removed from the White House in September 2019, Douglas Macgregor was one of five finalists under consideration for selection as President Trump's National Security Advisor.

On February 17,2020, Douglas Macgregor traveled to Israel to meet with the IDF General Staff and many of its senior officers to discuss General Kohavi's ongoing initiative to transform the IDF for future warfighting missions in the 21st century.

Douglas Macgregor had asserted that Muslim immigrants come to Europe "with the goal of eventually turning Europe into an Islamic state".

Douglas Macgregor had argued that the German concept of Vergangenheitsbewaltigung, used to cope with Germany's Nazi past and its atrocities during World War II, was a "sick mentality".

Douglas Macgregor's nomination stalled in the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

On November 11,2020, a Pentagon spokesperson announced that Douglas Macgregor had been hired by President Trump to serve as senior advisor to the new Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, as part of a sweeping change in senior defense staffing.

At the time, Douglas Macgregor was an advocate of US withdrawal from Afghanistan, a Trump policy opposed by the defense establishment.

Douglas Macgregor's appointment was welcomed by Senator Rand Paul, who described Macgregor as his friend.

Douglas Macgregor held the post until Trump left office in January 2021.

Douglas Macgregor's appointment was terminated by President Joe Biden in September 2021.

In 2004, Douglas Macgregor stated that he strongly supported the US war in Iraq, and regretted that the US had not enacted regime change in Iraq in 1991.

In 2006, after seven retired generals criticized then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's handling of the war, Douglas Macgregor faulted the generals themselves for poor war planning and the resulting complications in Iraq.

In 2008, Douglas Macgregor stated that he would argue that American military action in Iraq and Afghanistan "has produced very serious and negative consequences for American national-security interests".

Douglas Macgregor says that David Petraeus, Martin Dempsey, and other generals consistently exaggerated or falsified the effectiveness of the Iraqi army because "the generals were simply cultivating their Bush administration sponsors in pursuit of further promotion".

In 2019, on the Conservative Commandos radio show, Douglas Macgregor alleged that George Soros was financing the transportation of foreigners to the United States, purportedly to destroy American culture; he made similar claims about Soros on Lou Dobbs' Fox show.

Such comments by Douglas Macgregor were described by Maddow Blog, Media Matters for America, and Insider as a version of Great Replacement Theory.

In 2014, Douglas Macgregor went on Russian state-owned RT and criticized US intervention in the Kosovo War in the late 1990s.

Douglas Macgregor described the results of US intervention in Kosovo as to "put, essentially, a Muslim drug mafia in charge of that country".

Douglas Macgregor has made statements in support of Israel having defensible borders, the annexation of the Golan Heights, and the decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem.

In 2014, after the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and during a conflict with Ukraine over its eastern parts, Douglas Macgregor appeared on Russian state-owned network RT where he called for annexation of Donbas and said residents of the region "are in fact Russians, not Ukrainians, and at the same time, you have Ukrainians in the west and in the north, who are not Russians".

Douglas Macgregor defended Russia's invasion in an interview on The Grayzone, saying Putin had taken great care with civilians and this was delaying his victory.

Douglas Macgregor opposes diversity and affirmative action programs in the military.