Oh, sure, he’s a good officer. He is still not what he tries to present himself as.

He tried to make his intellectual bones with Breaking the Phalanx. Sadly, it was a book about organization and he really didn’t understand organization for beans. All he understood was Armored Cavalry. This wouldn’t be so bad except that Armored Cavalry is of somewhat limited use.

You recall Trotsky’s observation about finding the truth in war by comparison of the lies? That’s how to take MacGregor; he is the fountain of the Russian lies we are not permitted by CNN, MSNBC, and the USG to see, the lies we can then compare with the Ukie lies with a fair chance of finding out the truth. Yes, of course the Russians are lying, too. No, I don’t think he’s consciously lying; I think he’s repeating lies he was told that he’d like to believe. Even so, and even despite his moral innocence, they remain lies.

A comparison of the lies, by the way, will still suggest that the Ukrainians are probably losing.