Colonel Douglas McGregor

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797 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Sep

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Redacted News · Impeach Hegseth? Thomas Massie Makes His Case · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

We appointed uh Chiefs of Staff for only two years.

Now the appointments last for four, because he said that uh anyone who was contemplating a war on the on the Asian continent with United States ground forces uh was effectively crazy.

And so if McDamara said he's gotta go, they got rid of him.

So I mean this is an old story.

We talk about the importance of civilian leadership, it is important, but you gotta be careful who the civilian leaders are that you appoint.

And right now, uh and in the past, certainly over the last fifty, sixty years that I've been around,

You get there for all sorts of reasons, none of which have anything to do with your really competent understanding of military affairs, let alone anything else nationally, as how much money did you contribute to the president's campaign?

Did you room with the president when you went to college?

I mean these kinds of things are much more important than do you actually know anything about the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines and the force structure and force development or anything else?

No, I I agree.

I I think what you have to understand is that that perspective is something that one hears particularly on the battlefield when you're fighting.

Uh in uh nineteen ninety one

Uh on the twenty sixth of February, this would have been around ten PM in the evening.

Uh I was introduced to the uh

Iraqi brigade commander, this Republican Corps brigade commander who had commanded the force to our front that we had destroyed.

He had survived the whole thing.

His English wasn't bad, he'd gone to Fort Bennington.

It was trained by us when we were supporting Saddam Hussein.

Anyway.

One of my soldiers who was standing nearby, uh he was actually my tank driver.

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