Future Urban Warfare: Colonel Macgregor's Concepts

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Find out where the Iraq Debacle began!

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On 26 February 1991, cavalry troops of ""Cougar Squadron,"" the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, charged out of a sandstorm during Operation Desert Storm and caught Iraq's Republican Guard Corps in the open desert along the North-South grid line of a military map referred to as the ""73 Easting."" Taken by surprise, the defending Iraqi armor brigade was swept away in salvos of American tank and missile fire in what became the U.S. Army's largest tank battle since World War II.

Douglas Macgregor, the man who trained and led Cougar Squadron into battle, recounts two stories. One is the inspiring tale of the valiant American soldiers, sergeants, lieutenants, and captains who fought and won the battle. The other is a story of failed generalship, one that explains why Iraq's Republican Guard escaped, ensuring that Saddam Hussein's regime survived and America's war with Iraq dragged on.

Certain to provoke debate, this is the latest book from the controversial and influential military veteran whose two previous books, Breaking the Phalanx and Transformation Under Fire, are credited with influencing thinking and organization inside America's ground forces and figure prominently in current discussions about military strategy and defense policies. Its fast-moving battle narrative, told from the vantage point of Macgregor's Abrams tank, and its detailed portraits of American soldiers, along with vivid descriptions of the devastating technology of mounted warfare, will captivate anyone with a taste for adventure as well as an interest in contemporary military history.

Douglas Macgregor, Colonel, USA (Ret.), is a decorated combat veteran with a PhD in international relations from the University of Virginia. He is the author of Breaking the Phalanx and Transformation under Fire and is a frequent guest on television and radio news shows. He is the lead partner of the Potomac League, LLC, in Reston, VA.

Praise for his Transformation Under Fire:

""Transformation Under Fire offers a strident critique of recent Army transformation efforts while also providing the reader a comprehensive vision of near-term changes within the Department of Defense that could truly enhance our military's ability to conduct joint expeditionary operations. . . . Essential reading for military professionals and for those with oversight of defense programs.""Army Magazine

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[douglasmacgregorTV]

RussianPower666 writes:

"Bradley and Stryker are just trash"

[Baal616]

The under-use of M113s in Iraq is unforgivable. So is failure to properly equip guntrucks.

[BlacktailFA]

I've been telling people on Youtube that these things NEED to be done YESTERDAY for a while now --- you wouldn't believe how maniacally people shout me down for saying the same things you do!

[MRWALKER500000]

@douglasmacgregorTV

Stryker cant be deployed from an aircraft = waste of money (as they were to be deployable within 96 hours)

Bradely isnt ideal, but ok, but the army shoulve got an M113 and stuck a 25 mm turret on top

[c9ari]

Thank you for making this video! Where is the Airborne armor? We must have it!

[chunkeyhotdog144]

as shown in this video take a leaf out of Israelis and Australia's book u already hav the Gavins just upgrade them like we did. in Indonesia our light armor and infantry rolled all over the indonesia army and the the Jakarta supporters.

[usebah]

I Agree with what you said, especially the part about leaving and not living in palaces, only intervening to stop anarchy (islamic terrorists) killing people. Stay holed up in those giant megabases that the US has built in Iraq, and have guards for the oil, and share the oil revenue with iraq so that you can at least help them in some other way than invading the country to get rid of a bad guy.