Breaking the Phalanx - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Breaking the Phalanx write by Douglas A. Macgregor. This book was released on 1997-01-30. Breaking the Phalanx available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work proposes the reorganization of America's ground forces on the strategic, operational and tactical levels. Central to the proposal is the simple thesis that the U.S. Army must take control of its future by exploiting the emerging revolution in military affairs. The analysis argues that a new Army warfighting organization will not only be more deployable and effective in Joint operations; reorganized information age ground forces will be significantly less expensive to operate, maintain, and modernize than the Army's current Cold War division-based organizations. And while ground forces must be equipped with the newest Institute weapons, new technology will not fulfill its promise of shaping the battlefield to American advantage if new devices are merely grafted on to old organizations that are not specifically designed to exploit them. It is not enough to rely on the infusion of new, expensive technology into the American defense establishment to preserve America's strategic dominance in the next century. The work makes it clear that planes, ships, and missiles cannot do the job of defending America's global security issues alone. The United States must opt for reform and reorganization of the nation's ground forces and avoid repeating Britain's historic mistake of always fielding an effective army just in time to avoid defeat, but too late to deter an aggressor.
Warrior's Rage
Warrior's Rage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Warrior's Rage write by Douglas MacGregor. This book was released on 2009-09-01. Warrior's Rage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Transformation Under Fire
Transformation Under Fire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transformation Under Fire write by Douglas A. MacGregor. This book was released on 2003-09. Transformation Under Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. MacGregor argues for a tight integration between air and ground forces to change the way that our armed forces organize their capacity to fight.
Margin of Victory
Margin of Victory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Margin of Victory write by Douglas MacGregor. This book was released on 2016-06-15. Margin of Victory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Margin of Victory Douglas Macgregor tells the riveting stories of five military battles of the twentieth century, each one a turning point in history. Beginning with the British Expeditionary force holding the line at the Battle of Mons in 1914 and concluding with the Battle of Easting in 1991 during Desert Storm, Margin of Victory teases out a connection between these battles and teaches its readers an important lesson about how future battles can be won. Emphasizing military strategy, force design, and modernization, Macgregor links each of these seemingly isolated battles thematically. At the core of his analysis, the author reminds the reader that to be successful, military action must always be congruent with national culture, geography, and scientific-industrial capacity. He theorizes that strategy and geopolitics are ultimately more influential than ideology. Macgregor stresses that if nation-states want to be successful, they must accept the need for and the inevitability of change. The five warfighting dramas in this book, rendered in vivid detail by lively prose, offer many lessons on the tactical, operational, and strategic levels of war.
The Soviet-East German Military Alliance
The Soviet-East German Military Alliance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Soviet-East German Military Alliance write by Douglas A. Macgregor. This book was released on 1989. The Soviet-East German Military Alliance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The German Democratic Republic's emergence as the key political player within the Warsaw Pact has intensified debates concerning the critical East German military role in Soviet strategy for the future of Eastern Europe. Douglas Macgregor traces the origins of current collaboration to earlier forms of Russo-German military alliance.
