Colonel Douglas Macgregor is a retired US Army colonel, author and commentator on defence and foreign policy. He served from 1976 to 2004, fought at the Battle of 73 Easting in the 1991 Gulf War and holds a PhD in international relations. His books include Breaking the Phalanx and Margin of Victory, and in late 2020 he was a senior adviser to the acting US Secretary of Defense.
Brian Rose has interviewed Macgregor on London Real seven times between 2023 and 2025. They have covered the war in Ukraine, the Israel and Gaza conflict, the US strikes on Iran, the risk of nuclear escalation, and his argument that American power is in decline while Russia, China and the BRICS nations rise.
Each interview is listed below in order with a short summary.
Gaza Burns. Ukraine Falls. Venezuela Plots. Is The American Era Over? (October 2025). His most recent appearance and the widest in scope: Ukraine, Gaza, Venezuela, BRICS and what a restrained US foreign policy would look like. For where the series began, watch The US Government Lied About The Ukraine War (2023).
From his first appearance in May 2023, Macgregor argued that Ukraine’s losses were far greater than Western media reported and that Russia would prevail. He repeated this view in later episodes.
Speaking in October 2023, he said Washington had underestimated Russia in Ukraine and should not now underestimate the chance of a regional alliance forming against Israel. He warned that a heavy campaign in Gaza could pull Egypt into the conflict.
In his 2024 interviews he argued that the greatest danger to the United States comes from inside Washington: rising national debt, weakening social cohesion and border policy, which he believes are pushing the country towards crisis.
In September 2024 he warned that strikes on Russian territory using long-range Western weapons would be treated by Moscow as an act of war, and that Washington was moving the world closer to a direct conflict.
In October 2025 he described the rise of BRICS and the end of US unipolar dominance, and called for a more restrained American foreign policy focused on national defence.
Douglas Macgregor is a retired US Army colonel, author and commentator on defence and foreign policy. He served from 1976 to 2004, fought at the Battle of 73 Easting in the 1991 Gulf War, and in late 2020 was a senior adviser to the acting US Secretary of Defense.
Across seven conversations with Brian Rose between 2023 and 2025 he discussed the war in Ukraine, the Israel and Gaza conflict, Iran, the risk of a wider or nuclear war, and what he sees as the decline of American power at home and abroad.
Start with Is The American Era Over? from October 2025, which pulls together his views on Ukraine, Gaza, Venezuela and the rise of BRICS. For his first London Real interview, watch The US Government Lied About The Ukraine War from May 2023.
Seven times between May 2023 and October 2025, most of them returning conversations as events in Ukraine and the Middle East developed.
The Battle of 73 Easting was a tank battle fought on 26 February 1991, during the Gulf War, in which US armoured cavalry destroyed a large Iraqi force. Macgregor was an operations officer in the battle and later wrote about it in his book Warrior’s Rage.
Since his first London Real interview in 2023 he has argued that Ukraine cannot win, that its losses are far higher than Western media report, and that continued Western military aid risks a direct war with Russia.
Yes. In November 2020 he was appointed senior adviser to the acting Secretary of Defense, Christopher Miller, and served until the Trump administration left office in January 2021.
Official site: douglasmacgregor.com
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