On January 5, the Center for the National Interest held an event on
the conflict in Ukraine with the following experts:
Mathew Burrows is Director of Foresight, Scowcroft Strategy Initiative, and
Co-Director of the American Engagement Initiative at The Atlantic Council.
He is a former Counselor on the National Intelligence Council and head of
the NIC’s Strategic Futures Group.
Anatol Lieven is a senior research fellow on Russia and Europe at the Quincy
Institute for Responsible Statecraft. A former professor at Georgetown
University in Qatar and at the War Studies Department of King’s College
London, he is the author of numerous books on Russia and its neighbors,
including Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry.
Douglas Macgregor, Col. (ret.) is a decorated combat veteran, the former
advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration, and the
author of five books.
Cynthia Roberts is Professor of Political Science at Hunter College, CUNY,
and a Senior Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace
Studies, Columbia University. In 2019, Prof. Roberts served as a policy
adviser at the Joint Staff, Department of Defense in J-5, Strategy, Plans,
and Policy.
George Beebe, Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for the
National Interest, and a former head of Russia analysis at the Central
Intelligence Agency, moderated the discussion.
Questions discussed included: What factors will be pivotal in determining
the prospects for war or diplomatic resolution? What key assumptions should
the United States examine about how events might unfold? What kind of attack
could Russia launch? And what might be the unanticipated consequences of
various U.S. policy options?
C2 and Force Design
for "All Arms-All Effects" Warfare
in Cross Domain Operations
The John Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory
10:30 a.m., 30 January 2020
A presentation by
Colonel (ret) Douglas Macgregor, U.S. Army, PhD
EVP, Burke-Macgregor Group LLC
In the photo below, LTG Kohavi, IDF Chief is on
Douglas Macgreor's right. Macgregor is speaking to the IDF General Staff and
Commanders on 17 Feb in Israel.
The Chief of the IDF General Staff made Macgregor's book,Transformation
under Fire (Praeger, 2003), required reading for all officers in the rank of
LTC and above.
This is the first time in the history of the IDF that a Chief of the Israeli
General Staff has identified a book as the intellectual basis for future
change in the IDF.
Calendar No. 469 114TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION S. 2943 [Report No. 114–255]
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for military activities of
the Department of Defense,
for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of
Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes.
http://douglasmacgregor.com/sectionFY17NDAA.pdf
THE JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY
reviews MARGIN OF VICTORY
Pritzker Military Museum & Library and
Naval Institute Co-Sponsor Events in Chicago this Spring
The Pritzker Military Museum and Library, in co-sponsorship with the
Naval Institute, will host three author events and one oral history
event this spring in downtown Chicago. Visit
the Pritzker's website for more
details on these events.
