Some will know General McMaster as having served as President Trump's Second National Security Advisor. What you may not know is General McMaster’s long and storied military career. He served tours of duty in both Afghanistan and Iraq. In Iraq, he served as the captain of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of 73 Easting. During that battle he encountered the enemy by surprise, leading 9 American tanks into battle against 28 Iraqi Republican Guard tanks, destroying all of the Iraqi tanks, without an American loss, in 23 minutes.
General McMaster is a widely decorated war veteran, with both the Silver Star and Purple Heart. In addition to his storied military career, he has also served as a military history professor at West Point, and received his Ph.D. and Masters in American History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Interestingly, his thesis ultimately became his first book entitled “Dereliction of Duty” which explores the controversial American strategy in Vietnam War. This book is reportedly read widely at the Pentagon, and is included in many military reading lists.
In addition to his service as the National Security Advisor, General McMaster served as the top counterinsurgency advisor to General David Petraeus and became the Deputy Commanding General of the Army Training and Doctrine Command.
Time Magazine
in 2014 named him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, saying that “he might be the 21st Century Army’s preeminent warrior – thinker."
General McMaster currently is a the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and author of the forthcoming book ‘Battlegrounds: The Fights to Defend the Free World.’