Sadly, this is probably the truth. There is an 80% chance that this fukking idiot Trump hired dude for the built in mnemonic device.
Mc Master of the Military
Trump picks Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster as new national security adviser
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Sadly, this is probably the truth. There is an 80% chance that this fukking idiot Trump hired dude for the built in mnemonic device.
Mc Master of the Military
What's your issue with him?
He wanTed Israel to nuke Iran for God sakes
He thinks the Iraq War was a success and regime change has to be done far and wide to promote Jeffersonian Democracy
Gimme a break
Go to 2 min
Pft, yeah right.
This weasel-faced prick voted "yes" on every Trump nominee except Mike Pompeo.
He can't be trusted.
McMaster’s first true test of leadership was during the 1991 Gulf War. Then a young captain in the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, he fought in the Battle of 73 Easting. His unit, Eagle Troop, got caught in a sandstorm — and then ran headlong into a larger Iraqi force.
Eagle Troop’s nine tanks managed to destroy no fewer than 80 Iraqi tanks and other vehicles without any losses of their own.
Of course, it helped that the Americans’ state-of-the-art M-1 tanks were greatly superior to the Iraqis’ much older, Soviet-made T-62s and T-72s and Chinese Type 69s.
McMaster received a silver star for his actions. Later, McMaster would say that the ’91 conflict gave commanders an unrealistic view of what modern war was going to be like.
It’s not just his battlefield accomplishments that have defined McMaster. He’s equally well-known for his intellectual pedigree. He was a military history professor at West Point and, as a major and Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina, wrote Dereliction of Duty, a critical perspective on the Vietnam War.
McMaster lambasted Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara for their wartime leadership. But he reserved his harshest criticism for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other military officers for being more interested in currying favor and protecting their careers than giving their civilian superiors candid advice.
He argued that military force should be deployed carefully and only with clear objectives — which he asserted were absent in Vietnam.
In March 2003, the U.S. Army steamrolled into Iraq following a devastating air campaign. The Iraqi army crumbled in the face of America’s technological superiority.
Just a month later in April 2003, the U.S. Army War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership released McMaster’s monograph “Crack in the Foundation: Defense Transformation and the Underlying Assumption of Dominant Knowledge in Future War.”
In it, McMaster argued that the ’91 Gulf War had made U.S. military planners arrogant — and had led them to assume that technological superiority would allow them to achieve swift, easy victories through air power.
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Eagle Troop’s nine tanks managed to destroy no fewer than 80 Iraqi tanks and other vehicles without any losses of their own.
Of course, it helped that the Americans’ state-of-the-art M-1 tanks were greatly superior to the Iraqis’ much older, Soviet-made T-62s and T-72s and Chinese Type 69s.
McMaster received a silver star for his actions. Later, McMaster would say that the ’91 conflict gave commanders an unrealistic view of what modern war was going to be like.
It’s not just his battlefield accomplishments that have defined McMaster. He’s equally well-known for his intellectual pedigree. He was a military history professor at West Point and, as a major and Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina, wrote Dereliction of Duty, a critical perspective on the Vietnam War.
McMaster lambasted Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara for their wartime leadership. But he reserved his harshest criticism for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other military officers for being more interested in currying favor and protecting their careers than giving their civilian superiors candid advice.
He argued that military force should be deployed carefully and only with clear objectives — which he asserted were absent in Vietnam.
In March 2003, the U.S. Army steamrolled into Iraq following a devastating air campaign. The Iraqi army crumbled in the face of America’s technological superiority.
Just a month later in April 2003, the U.S. Army War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership released McMaster’s monograph “Crack in the Foundation: Defense Transformation and the Underlying Assumption of Dominant Knowledge in Future War.”
In it, McMaster argued that the ’91 Gulf War had made U.S. military planners arrogant — and had led them to assume that technological superiority would allow them to achieve swift, easy victories through air power.
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Pull Up the Roots
I have a good time when I go out of my mind..
Patrolling the city and partnering quickly with an Iraqi mayor and police, McMaster conceded American faults in the war and was quick to credit Iraqi politicians with successes. He was willing to meet with local potentates tied to the insurgency – “We understand why you fight,” he was once quoted as saying.
In contrast to Trump’s stated enthusiasm for torture, McMaster ordered detainees be treated humanely, and even polled detainees on how well the regiment followed through. And in contrast to the dark view of Islam put forward by Trump, his strategy chief Steve Bannon and, most notably, Flynn – who once tweeted that fear of Muslims is “rational” – McMaster ordered his troops not to use derogatory terms to refer to Muslims.
On the backs of arduous fighting as well as nimble diplomacy, McMaster’s approach quieted Tal Afar. McMaster’s time there became a proof-of-concept for Petraeus and the rising band of counterinsurgent theorist-pratictioners – currently out of vogue – to pursue the Iraq surge.
But though McMaster won acclaim, the army did not appreciate McMaster opting for a different approach – one that contradicted and upstaged its advice on the war – and it took Petraeus’ recommendation to get McMaster promoted to general. His subsequent service within the Army’s training and doctrine command is institutionally respected but lower in profile, a move observers tend to interpret as lingering Army discomfort with McMaster.
Trump appoints HR McMaster as national security adviser
Sounds surprisingly sane and about the best we could hope for under a Trump presidency. Hoping he brings in his own, hand-picked staff, and gets rid of that dunderhead McFarland.
In contrast to Trump’s stated enthusiasm for torture, McMaster ordered detainees be treated humanely, and even polled detainees on how well the regiment followed through. And in contrast to the dark view of Islam put forward by Trump, his strategy chief Steve Bannon and, most notably, Flynn – who once tweeted that fear of Muslims is “rational” – McMaster ordered his troops not to use derogatory terms to refer to Muslims.
On the backs of arduous fighting as well as nimble diplomacy, McMaster’s approach quieted Tal Afar. McMaster’s time there became a proof-of-concept for Petraeus and the rising band of counterinsurgent theorist-pratictioners – currently out of vogue – to pursue the Iraq surge.
But though McMaster won acclaim, the army did not appreciate McMaster opting for a different approach – one that contradicted and upstaged its advice on the war – and it took Petraeus’ recommendation to get McMaster promoted to general. His subsequent service within the Army’s training and doctrine command is institutionally respected but lower in profile, a move observers tend to interpret as lingering Army discomfort with McMaster.
Trump appoints HR McMaster as national security adviser
Sounds surprisingly sane and about the best we could hope for under a Trump presidency. Hoping he brings in his own, hand-picked staff, and gets rid of that dunderhead McFarland.
“Every time you disrespect an Iraqi, you’re working for the enemy.” They even had “Customer Satisfaction Forms” that detainees were asked to fill out upon release: Were you treated well? How was the food? What could we do better?
Last man standing: McMaster for NSA?
Last man standing: McMaster for NSA?
Maj. Gen. H.R. McMaster’s suggested reading list for military professionals
Maj. Gen. H.R. McMaster’s suggested reading list for military professionals
General grounding
There are several essential reads for professionals involved in military affairs:
Carl von Clausewitz, On War. The author uses a dialectical approach to understanding war without being prescriptive.
Michael Howard, War in European History. This book is excellent, as is anything by this author.
Elting Morison, Men, Machines, and Modern Times. The author discusses the limitations of emerging technologies-specifically, he argues that instead of taming our environment, technology has further complicated it.
Williamson Murray, The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War. This book helps connect military action to strategy.
Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War. The Greek historian shows that the drivers of war-fear, honor, self-interest-haven’t changed over time.
Innovation and the world wars
Much has been written about World War I, World War II, and the interwar period-and about how these events changed the nature of war. The following are favorites:
Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat
Robert A. Doughty, The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940, and Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War
Timothy T. Lupfer, Dynamics of Doctrine: The Changes in German Tactical Doctrine During the First World War
Williamson Murray, Military Innovation in the Interwar Period
Memoirs and biographies
It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War is perhaps the best war memoir ever written. The following are some other significant titles:
Carlo D’Este, Patton: A Genius for War
David Fraser, Knight’s Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Matthew B. Ridgway, The Korean War
Selected histories of military campaigns
For selected histories of wars and military campaigns, the following are some of my favorites; I’ve also included recommendations on contemporary threats:
Ancient warfare
Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War
Seven Years’ War
Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
The American military profession and the American Revolution
David Hackett Fischer, Washington’s Crossing
Don Higginbotham, George Washington and the American Military Tradition and The War of American Independence
Civil War
James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Franco-Prussian War
Michael Howard, The Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France 1870-1871
World War II
Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943; The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944; and the forthcoming The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
Gerhard Weinberg, A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
Korean War
T. R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War
David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
Vietnam War
Eric Bergerud, Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning: The World of a Combat Division in Vietnam
Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway, We Were Soldiers Once . . . And Young: Ia Drang-The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
Iraq
Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq and The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama
Afghanistan
Peter Tomsen, The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers
Contemporary threats to international security
Peter Bergen, The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda
Victor Cha, The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future
David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
Bruce Riedel, Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad
Maj. Gen. H.R. McMaster’s suggested reading list for military professionals
General grounding
There are several essential reads for professionals involved in military affairs:
Carl von Clausewitz, On War. The author uses a dialectical approach to understanding war without being prescriptive.
Michael Howard, War in European History. This book is excellent, as is anything by this author.
Elting Morison, Men, Machines, and Modern Times. The author discusses the limitations of emerging technologies-specifically, he argues that instead of taming our environment, technology has further complicated it.
Williamson Murray, The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War. This book helps connect military action to strategy.
Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War. The Greek historian shows that the drivers of war-fear, honor, self-interest-haven’t changed over time.
Innovation and the world wars
Much has been written about World War I, World War II, and the interwar period-and about how these events changed the nature of war. The following are favorites:
Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat
Robert A. Doughty, The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940, and Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War
Timothy T. Lupfer, Dynamics of Doctrine: The Changes in German Tactical Doctrine During the First World War
Williamson Murray, Military Innovation in the Interwar Period
Memoirs and biographies
It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War is perhaps the best war memoir ever written. The following are some other significant titles:
Carlo D’Este, Patton: A Genius for War
David Fraser, Knight’s Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Matthew B. Ridgway, The Korean War
Selected histories of military campaigns
For selected histories of wars and military campaigns, the following are some of my favorites; I’ve also included recommendations on contemporary threats:
Ancient warfare
Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War
Seven Years’ War
Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
The American military profession and the American Revolution
David Hackett Fischer, Washington’s Crossing
Don Higginbotham, George Washington and the American Military Tradition and The War of American Independence
Civil War
James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Franco-Prussian War
Michael Howard, The Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France 1870-1871
World War II
Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943; The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944; and the forthcoming The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
Gerhard Weinberg, A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
Korean War
T. R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War
David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
Vietnam War
Eric Bergerud, Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning: The World of a Combat Division in Vietnam
Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway, We Were Soldiers Once . . . And Young: Ia Drang-The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
Iraq
Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq and The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama
Afghanistan
Peter Tomsen, The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers
Contemporary threats to international security
Peter Bergen, The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda
Victor Cha, The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future
David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
Bruce Riedel, Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad
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Rhyme Reason
At least there won't be any Russians in his closet. Sounds like an alright guy.
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Playa from the Himalayas #ByrdGang
Seems like an ok dude. Hope he can bring his own staff in stand for what he thinks is right.