H. R. McMaster
Retired Army general and author
H. R. McMaster is a retired US Army lieutenant general who served as National Security Advisor from 2017 to 2018, and is also an author.
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American Born 1962 in Philadelphia, United States
About H. R. McMaster
Herbert Raymond McMaster was born in Philadelphia in 1962 and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1984. As a captain in the Gulf War, he commanded Eagle Troop, 2nd Cavalry Regiment, at the Battle of 73 Easting. He later held senior Army commands, including the 3rd Cavalry Regiment in Iraq and Fort Benning in Georgia. In 1996 he completed a doctorate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studied American history. His dissertation on the Vietnam War was developed into Dereliction of Duty, a New York Times bestseller. He has also written Battlegrounds and At War with Ourselves. McMaster succeeded Michael Flynn as National Security Advisor in February 2017 and resigned the post in 2018. He has since taken up academic roles at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and hosts Battlegrounds With H.R. McMaster.