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H.R. McMaster is an author and a former United States Army lieutenant general who has since retired. His full name is Herbert Raymond McMaster.

Born July 24, 1962, H.R. has served as the 25th United States National Security Advisor for a year from 2017 to 2018. He has also had important roles in Operation Enduring Freedom, the Gulf War, and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

He was born in Philadelphia and graduated in 1984 from the United States Military Academy. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned his Ph.D in the subject of American History in 1996. He wrote a dissertation that would become the foundation of his book Dereliction of Duty. The book hit the top of the New York Times bestsellers charts and continues to be read throughout the U.S. military.

He also served during the Gulf War as a captain, commanding the Eagle Troop’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment while in the Battle of 73 Easting. After the War, he went to UNC Chapel Hill for graduate school and then taught military history for two years from 1994 to 1996 at the United States Military Academy.

He served at Fort Irwin, California as a squadron executive officer and a regimental operations officer as part of the 11th Cavalry Regiment and then commanded the 1st Squadron 4th Cavalry from 1999 to 2002 at Schweinfurt, Germany for three years. He took an Army War College Fellowship at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and then was in Qatar for some time as part of the Commander’s Advisory Group.

He has also been in Baghdad from 2007 to 2008 and then served for two years as the Director of Concept Development and Learning for the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. He also commanded a Task Force in Afghanistan for two years from 2010 to 2012. He has also been a commander of Fort Benning from 2012 to 2014. He became Director at TRADOC in 2014. In 2017, he took over as National Security advisor for President Trump, replacing Michael Flynn. He was on active duty while serving and retired in May of 2018, where he received an Army Distinguished Service Medal at the ceremony. That same year he took an academic appointment at the Hoover Institution.

McMaster is a Bernard and Susan Liautaud Visiting Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies’s Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow. He is also a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in management and a distinguished visiting fellow at Arizona State University.

He was born in Philadelphia to his father Herbert Senior who was a military veteran and his mother Marie who was a school teacher and an administrator. He grew up with his younger sister Letitia and went to Norwood Fontbonne Academy. He graduated in 1976 and then graduated in 1980 from the Valley Forge Military Academy. He then got a commission as second lieutenant in 1984 after his graduation from West Point’s U.S. Military Academy.

After his retirement, McMaster did not stop working. He joined Spirit of America as an Advisory Board Member. In 2020, he also joined Zoom Video Communications as a board member. He also became an advisor to Mischler Financial Group Inc. He serves as Chairman of Ergo’s Flashpoints Forum, and joined Shield Capital’s National Security Advisory Board in 2021 as their Senior Advisor.

He joined Edgybees’s advisory board in 2021 and in 2022 joined the advisory board of the software firm Strider Technologies. He has been Arizona State University’s Distinguished University Fellow, as mentioned above, and was appointed the position in 2021. He is also a guest lecturer there, guiding and mentoring students at the university as well as hosting events about national security and defense. In 2021 he would be taken off of the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Military Academy under President Biden, part of a removal of over a dozen appointees put there by Trump on three different service board branches.

McMaster is a host of the video and podcast series, entitled “International Perspectives on Crucial Challenges to Security and Prosperity”.

Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World is a 2020 book by H.R. McMaster. It was published by HarperCollins and was the second book by this author to hit the top of the bestsellers charts on the New York Times.

This book is made up into seven different parts, each about an area of interest for foreign policy and containing autobiographical details within. It has been called ‘thoughtful’ and ‘substantive’ by Cliff May, a founder and president of Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Steve Cohen also liked the book, calling it a volume that deserves shelf space for those who are ‘serious’ about the state of United States foreign policy in the beginning of the twenty-first century.

The bestseller also comes with additional text from the author that deals with the January 2021 assault conducted on the United States Capitol, which recommends how free world citizens can collaborate to put back confidence in both democratic institutions and processes.

This is an examination of critical foreign policy and national security challenges that are staring the United States in the face, as well as a call to fight to protect not only America’s standing but its security too.

American foreign policy has been inconsistent as well as misconceived and poorly implemented, especially since the Cold War’s conclusion, across various administrations, asserts McMaster. The United States and the rest of the free world are behind their rivals, while security threats and more have only grown larger.

The author goes over efforts to reassess and shift policies that were made during his time as National Security Advisor. He also includes paths forward and more in this assessment of where exactly America stands in the world in a compelling book nonfiction readers can look forward to.

At War with Ourselves– My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House by H.R. McMaster first became available to readers in 2024.

He was interviewed by Anderson Cooper for this book regarding such topics as Trump’s choice to make a deal with the Taliban and cut out the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from the negotiations.

This is the account of the thirteen months that the author spent in the Trump White House, helping a President pursue foreign policy shifts, rising above the fray, what he achieved and failed at during his tenure, and more. Read this book to follow along and find out what H.R. McMaster has to say!