H. R. McMaster was the 26th assistant to the president for National
Security Affairs and served as a commissioned officer in the United
States Army for thirty-four years before retiring as a Lieutenant
General in June 2018. He is author of the award-winning book,
Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam.
He has published scores of essays, articles, and book reviews on
leadership, history, and the future of warfare in many publications
including Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, and the New
York Times. McMaster was commissioned as an officer in the United
States Army upon graduation from the United States Military Academy
in 1984. He holds a PhD in military history from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
‘Indispensable… Battlegrounds provides a comprehensive and expert
review of the strategic threats the US faced when the author was in
the White House – not only the Chinese challenge but also Russia’s
troublemaking everywhere from Syria to cyberspace, and the
perennial North Korean and Iranian menaces’
TLS Praise for H.R. McMaster’s Dereliction of Duty ‘A stunning
book: eloquent and highly effective. The word noble would not be
going too far.’
Paul Fussell, author of The Great War & Modern Memory ‘Well-written
and full of enlightening new details … Significantly adds to the
historical record of a great national failure.’
Arnold R. Isaacs, Washington Post ‘Carefully researched and vividly
narrated, H.R. McMaster's book adds a new and disturbing dimension
to an understanding of the decisions that propelled us into the
Vietnam war. It should be read by anyone interested in the origins
of one of the great tragedies in American history.’
Stanley Karnow, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of Vietnam: A History
‘A book to boggle your mind with new revelations of ineptness,
duplicity, and arrogance amongst the senior-most officials of the
United States … McMaster pastes all the puzzle pieces together to
reveal a plot Shakespearean in its proportions … McMaster's
scholarship and presentation is exemplary. The author's arguments
are coherent and convincing and important to the historical
record.’
Peter Arnett, The Washington Monthly ‘An outstanding example of
historical research, interpretation, scholarship, and fair-minded
analysis.’
Donald Kagan, author of On the Origins of War
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