Major General Donald A. McGregor, USAF (Ret.)

The author, a retired Air Force major general, is a former lead advisor to the chief of the National Guard Bureau, who is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In this role, he was the National Guard’s director of strategy, policy, plans and international affairs, developing overall strategy, secretary of defense policy and civil support planning for the Guard’s warfighting, homeland, and international partnership missions.