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H.R. McMaster

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The Free World’s Competitive Edge

Openness, innovation, entrepreneurship: tools to counter America’s greatest rival.

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The Iran Wars: History, Ideology, And Prospects For Peace

H.R. McMaster and Abbas Milani discuss the Iran War, its effects on the Iranian people, the Iranian regime, and prospects for peace and security in the Middle East and beyond.

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Good Fellows LIVE: The US Constitution And A Republic - If You Can Keep It

For the first time in the show’s six-year run, an episode of GoodFellows was recorded live before a public audience. The three fellows discuss the principles behind the US Constitution, why the language has stood the test of time, and debate whether several provisions within the storied document need updating in a world the Founding Fathers couldn’t imagine.

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    H.R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. At Stanford, he is also the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and lecturer at the Graduate School of Business. McMaster was assistant to the US president for national security affairs and served as a commissioned officer in the US Army for thirty-four years.

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    H.R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. At Stanford, he is also the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and lecturer at the Graduate School of Business. 

    Upon graduation from the US Military Academy in 1984, McMaster served as a commissioned officer in the US Army for thirty-four years. He retired as a lieutenant general in June 2018 after serving as the twenty-fifth assistant to the US president for national security affairs. From 2014 to 2017, McMaster designed the future army as the director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center. As commanding general of the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Georgia, he oversaw training, education, and modernization for the Army’s infantry, armor, and cavalry force. He has commanded organizations in wartime including the Combined Joint Inter-Agency Task Force–Shafafiyat in Kabul, Afghanistan (2010–12); the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment in Iraq (2005–6); and Eagle Troop, Second Armored Cavalry Regiment in Operation Desert Storm (1990–91).

    McMaster holds a PhD in military history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was an assistant professor of history at the US Military Academy. He is author of the bestselling books Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam; Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World; and At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House. His many essays, articles, and book reviews on leadership, history, and the future of warfare have appeared in The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, National Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Free Press, The New York Times, and The Economist.

    McMaster is the host of Today's Battlegrounds and is a regular on GoodFellows, both produced by the Hoover Institution. McMaster was a Hoover National Security Affairs Fellow from 2002 to 2003 and is a Distinguished University Fellow at Arizona State University.

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H.R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. At Stanford, he is also the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and lecturer at the Graduate School of Business. He is the host of Today's Battlegrounds and is a regular on GoodFellows, both produced by the Hoover Institution.

McMaster served as a commissioned officer in the US Army for thirty-four years and as the twenty-fifth assistant to the US president for national security affairs. As the director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center, McMaster designed the future army; and as commanding general of the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Georgia, he oversaw training, education, and modernization for the Army’s infantry, armor, and cavalry force. He has commanded organizations in wartime including the Combined Joint Inter-Agency Task Force–Shafafiyat in Afghanistan; the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment in Iraq; and Eagle Troop, Second Armored Cavalry Regiment in Operation Desert Storm.

McMaster holds a PhD in military history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was an assistant professor of history at the US Military Academy. He is author of Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam; Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World; and At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House. His many essays, articles, and book reviews on leadership, history, and the future of warfare have appeared in The AtlanticForeign AffairsForeign PolicyNational Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Free Press, The New York Times, and The Economist.

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Battlegrounds with H.R. McMaster

H.R. McMaster is the host of Battlegrounds. Each episode features McMaster, in a one-on-one conversation with a senior foreign government leader to allow Americans and partners abroad to understand how the past produced the present and how we might work together to secure a peaceful and prosperous future. “Listening and learning from those who have deep knowledge of our most crucial challenges is the first step in crafting the policies we need to secure peace and prosperity for future generations.”

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