National Security in Trump's White House

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🗓️ 22 August 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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H. R. McMaster is both a soldier and a scholar and has served at the highest level in government as National Security Advisor to President Trump. He served in the US Army for more than 30 years achieving the rank of lieutenant general, he saw combat during the first Gulf War and later was a counterinsurgency advisor to General David Petraeus. He has a PhD from the University of North Carolina and examining the failures of leadership during the Vietnam War and he is now a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He joins Dan on today's podcast to bring his experience and knowledge from decades of public service to bear on some of the most challenging questions of our age. He and Dan discuss the failures of the Vietnam and Afghan wars, how to fight a successful insurgency campaign, the meaning of leadership and what it was like to work for Donald Trump.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. It is a very exciting day because we managed
0:05.6	to get Herbert Raymond McMaster, HR McMaster, Donald Trump's National Security Advisor,
0:14.3	a retired United States Army Lieutenant General who became famous for his successful prosecution
0:21.0	of counterinsurgency in Iraq, junior US occupation there, and then went on to solve the highest
0:27.4	levels of government. HR McMaster is on the pot, very, very excited indeed. He is both a soldier
0:34.1	and a scholar. He served in the first Gulf War as a cavalryman. He did a PhD in which he
0:40.5	discussed military and political failures of leadership during the Vietnam War, and then
0:45.8	he became one of the top counterinsurgency advisors to General Petraeus in Baghdad during the
0:51.5	insurgency there. In February 2017, he succeeded Michael Flynn as Donald Trump's National Security
1:00.2	Advisor, and he resigned just over a year later. In this podcast I ask him about his PhD,
1:06.4	Vietnam Leadership, Afghanistan obviously came up because we talked during this week's events
1:10.6	in Afghanistan, also about Donald Trump and what it was like serving in his cabinet. This was a huge
1:16.0	pleasure. It's amazing for me to talk to someone who is at the same time a veteran who has seen
1:20.6	active service in the front line. He's held high command. He's thought widely and deeply about
1:25.7	military history and academic now, and he's also served the highest levels of government.
1:30.7	Not to say any government folks, Donald Trump's government. This was one of my favorite ever podcasts.
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