Book Review - Breaking the Phalanx: A New Design for Landpower in the 21st Century

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Book Review - Breaking the Phalanx: A New Design for Landpower in the 21st Century

266 MILITARY LAW REVIEW [Vol. 160

BREAKING THE PHALANX:

A NEW DESIGN FOR LANDPOWER IN THE 21ST CENTURY1

REVIEWED BY MAJOR JAMES R. AGAR, II2

Few soldiers could accomplish the feats of Colonel Douglas Macgregor. During the Persian Gulf War, he directed a battle against Iraq's elite Republican Guard with only ten tanks and thirteen Bradley fighting vehicles at his disposal. After just twenty-three minutes, the Battle of 73 Easting was over with Iraqi losses of nearly seventy armored vehicles. Macgregor's troop suffered no casualties. Two years later at the U.S. Army's National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, Macgregor again proved indomitable. "In a series of five battles, ...

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