Posted on 08/02/2017 5:42:46 PM PDT by be-baw
“Who is the know-nothing who HIRED this guy?”
That would be President Donald J. Trump.
“During the Gulf War in 1991 he was a captain commanding Eagle Troop of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of 73 Easting. During that battle, though significantly outnumbered and encountering the enemy by surprise as McMaster’s lead tank crested a dip in the terrain, the nine tanks of his company destroyed twenty-eight Iraqi Republican Guard tanks without loss in twenty-three minutes.
McMaster was awarded the Silver Star. The battle features in several books about Desert Storm and is widely referred to in US Army training exercises. It also receives coverage in Tom Clancy’s 1994 popular non-fiction book Armored Cav. McMaster served as a military history professor at West Point from 1994 to 1996, teaching among other things the battles in which he fought. He graduated from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in 1999.”—Wikipedia
And the Atlantic First knows this to be true how?
[And the Atlantic First knows this to be true how?]
Several related articles about other NSC members who have left their positions are posted on the thread below.
McMaster is purging....
See #5, #11, #20, #27, #41, #42
An NSC Staffer Is Forced Out Over a Controversial Memo
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3574061/posts
So basically his staff did what you did—went to Wikipedia. Great.
McMaster, Dunford and the Coast Guard Leader should all be relieved of duties ASAP.
LTG H.R. McMaster also wrote “Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam” published in 1998. Folks in DC did not like it.
“The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.”
—H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion)
“Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Fully and convincingly researched, based on transcripts and personal accounts of crucial meetings, confrontations and decisions, it is the only book that fully re-creates what happened and why. McMaster pinpoints the policies and decisions that got the United States into the morass and reveals who made these decisions and the motives behind them, disproving the published theories of other historians and excuses of the participants.”
“A page-turning narrative, Dereliction Of Duty focuses on a fascinating cast of characters: President Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, General Maxwell Taylor, McGeorge Bundy and other top aides who deliberately deceived the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. Congress and the American public.”
“McMaster’s only book, Dereliction of Duty is an explosive and authoritative new look at the controversy concerning the United States involvement in Vietnam.”
Rich Higgins nailed it in May 2017
A link to the memo for those who have not read it. Like he had a crystal ball.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3922874/Political-Warfare.pdf
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