I didn't say I was impressed by him. I just said this is a good concise to the point analysis of the global situation of the US and the situation in Ukraine. Obviously you are unused to this sort of discussion since your response is ad hominums. And I don't care about your reading list. I car about what you argue. Moreover energy strategy and economic strategy is interesting, but it is not the same as political and military strategy.
Economics and specifics like energy are inextricably connected to military strategy. As Mahan, etc. pointed out.
You ARE crediting MacGregor with HIS reading list. That’s what scholarship is.
Read (yes, I know you don’t like it, but try), Yervin, “The Prize”.