The revenge of Col. Douglas Macgregor
Amid an unprecedented Pentagon shakeup, an outspoken defense reformer who wants out of endless war, finally gets his shot.
Mark Perry is a senior analyst at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a widely published military and foreign affairs reporter. He is also an award-winning author of ten books, including The Pentagon’s Wars: The Military’s Undeclared War Against America’s Presidents (Basic Books, 2017); The Most Dangerous Man In America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur (Basic Books 2014); and Talking To Terrorists (Basic Books, 2010). The Boston Globe named his book on Gen. MacArthur the best non-fiction work of 2014.
Previously, Perry served as a senior foreign policy analyst and political director for Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, which founded the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which won the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. He is a graduate of Boston University.
Amid an unprecedented Pentagon shakeup, an outspoken defense reformer who wants out of endless war, finally gets his shot.
The few. The proud. The Naval landing party?
Decades of disarray have led many to wonder: What’s going on with the U.S. Navy?
Instead of declaring victory and pulling out, the Very Serious People in Washington want the U.S. declare a stalemate and stay in.