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• Originally published 08/14/2017

  Anti-McMaster campaign is about to get uglier

  His foes are going to claim that he has a drinking problem (though reporters say they are unaware of any evidence for the claim).

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• Originally published 08/03/2017

  Trump Defends McMaster as Conservatives Seek His Dismissal

  “General McMaster and I are working very well together.” – Donald Trump

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• Originally published 08/03/2017

  H.R. McMaster continuing to clean house at the NSC

  This time he got rid of an aide who claimed in a memo that Trump is under sustained attack from subversive forces both within and outside the government who are deploying Maoist tactics.

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• Originally published 07/21/2017

  One reason H.R. McMaster and Trump don't have a close relationship

  Mike Allen

  Trump wants to kibitz. McMaster wants to get down to business. 

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• Originally published 06/22/2017

  The Trump team is obsessing over Thucydides, the ancient historian who wrote a seminal tract on war

  Steve Bannon, H.R. McMaster, James Mattis – they all love Thucydides.

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• Originally published 05/31/2017

  HR McMaster claims Trump has strengthened alliances with NATO countries

  HR McMaster & Gary Cohn

  "A determination to stand up for our people and our way of life deepens our friends’ respect for America."

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• Originally published 05/29/2017

  Military Journalist Calls on General McMaster to Step Down—And Let Trump Be Trump

  Thomas E. Ricks

  Save your reputation while you still can. The country will be fine, says Thomas Ricks.

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• Originally published 05/22/2017

  What Does H.R. McMaster’s Famous Book Tell Us About Him?

  Michael H. Hunt

  How would McMaster today compare the Vietnam policy he indicted in his book with the failed record of counter-insurgency in which he has played so signal a role?

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• Originally published 05/19/2017

  H.R. McMaster criticized – and not for his defense of Trump

  Daniel Bessner

  He’s taken to task because he "clearly and unquestioningly embraces the premises that have supported the American empire since 1945.”

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• Originally published 05/18/2017

  H.R. McMaster Takes a Dive

  Jack Shafer

  "The national security adviser’s fanboys are having a sad over his shilling for Baby Donald."

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• Originally published 05/08/2017

  Trump screamed at national security adviser H.R. McMaster over comments to South Korea

  Trump was livid after reading McMaster called South Korean officials to say Trump's statement that the American ally would have to pay for a missile defense system wasn't official policy.

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• Originally published 02/27/2017

  What LT. Gen. H.R. McMaster will offer as new national security adviser

  Unlike others in the Trump administration, he's known for telling it like it is. 

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• Originally published 02/24/2017

  McMaster knows how national security policy can go wrong. Will that help him?

  Phillip Carter

  Trump's new adviser will need to avoid the Vietnam-era mistakes he studied, says former Army officer.

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• Originally published 02/20/2017

  Trump Chooses Historian H.R. McMaster as National Security Adviser

  General McMaster is author of the highly respected book, "Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam." He chided the Bush administration for the Iraq War.

• Originally published 07/22/2013

  The Pipe Dream of Easy War

  H.R. McMaster

   “A GREAT deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep,” the novelist Saul Bellow once wrote. We should keep that in mind when we consider the lessons from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — lessons of supreme importance as we plan the military of the future.

• Originally published 05/25/2010

  Jill O'Neill: H.R. McMaster's War Against PowerPoint

  The successful conciliation of the Iraqi city Tal Afar in 2005 now stands as a prime example and archetypal strategy of how to effectively implement U.S. counterinsurgency strategies, and Brigadier General H.R. McMaster can not only be credited with this successful campaign but also with the development of counterinsurgency theories, as he was part of General David Petraeus’ counterinsurgency council of experts in from 2007 to 2008. 

• Originally published 10/20/2008

  Learning from Contemporary Conflicts to Prepare for Future War

  H.R. McMaster:

  War is the final auditor of military institutions. 

• Originally published 11/20/2007

  Peter Mansoor and H.R. McMaster: Complaints that the Army has passed over both for promotion

  Max Boot

• Originally published 08/27/2007

  H.R. McMaster: Historian passed over for promotion in the army

  [The claim that H.R. McMaster, the historian-soldier, has been passed over for promotion in the army has surfaced in the mainstream media for the first time in an article by Fred Kaplan, the national security reporter for Slate. The claim appears in Kaplan's article in the current issue of the NYT Magazine about Lt. Col. Paul Yingling, author of a devastating critique of the leadership of the army during the Iraq War published in May by the Armed Forces Journal. Yingling argues that generals

• Originally published 05/11/2007

  H.R. McMaster: Featured this week in the New Yorker

  A few weeks ago Col. H.R. McMaster, who holds a Ph.D. in history and is the author of the highly acclaimed book, Dereliction of Duty, was featured in a 60 Minutes story about his work in freeing Tal Afar of terrorists. This week he was featured in a New Yorker (issue: April 10, 2006) story by George Packer,"The Lesson of Tal Afar."