Col Doug Macgregor: The US Military LOST Against Iran? (Daniel Davis)

US involvement in the Middle East has been disastrous for both the US and the West in general. Everything has ended in failure. The wars have been neocon projects and NOT conducted in the interests of the USA.
These military veterans talk about what the US military has learnt, and a lot of what it hasn't learnt. The big problem is the politicians and senior leadership leading the troops into dead end situations because of politically driven thinking (and corruption) that has divorced them from reality and stopped them from asking the right questions. 

This is an excellent, must see, discussion about systems analysis. Macgregor makes a great point that clear thinking trumps one's level of education in many circumstances, and that systems that reward (unthinking) 'yes men' have led to failures in command and organisation. A lot of what he talks about comes down to recognising psychological failures of various kinds. This has become a common theme in many situations outside of the military. It's not one's level of supposed intelligence or expertise that is the most valuable characteristic when it comes to taking in new information and learning, it's one's psychological disposition. 

Note: When it comes to their discussion about future war, the answer (that they don't quite reach) is that we are returning to industrial war, and war of attrition, but with drone and ballistic missile saturation overlapping with existing conventional forces. Until satellite and optical drone sensing technology, or their communications, can be defeated (with lasers, jamming or hacking) then future wars will be massed drone armies vs similar armies.

Their idea of focusing US military forces on the Mexican border, where the mission is clear, is a good one. Missions that don't have clear objectives in directly helping the country, like attacking Iran, must be avoided.     

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 6, 2026.]