General McMaster to national security

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Just announced

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1. Sloppy 4ths?

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2. Voluntold. Still on active duty. Can't say no. nt

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3. That's the only way Trump can get someone

For some reason I thought you had to be a civilian? Or is that just Sec of D and Sec of St?

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7. General Powell served as NSA between

Army postings. He eventually became Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff after being Reagan's NSAdvisor.

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8. I was too young to care at that point. I remember him as CH Joint Staff

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4. Wow. So they had to force someone to take the gig?

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6. If he had to be told to do it, that might mean he's actually competent.

Seems like the smart people were turning down the gig, meaning that the position could only be filled either by someone who was completely unqualified, or someone who had no choice.

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9. According to Wikipedia is is something of a maverick

He wrote a book about Vietnam that did state a position I agree with. Here is a summary from Wikipedia.

Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam is a book written by then Major McMaster that explores the military's role in the policies of the Vietnam War. The book was written as part of his Ph.D. dissertation at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The book examines Robert McNamara and U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's staff, alongside the military and particularly the Joint Chiefs of Staff, failure to provide a successful plan of action to pacify either a Viet Cong insurgency or decisively defeat the North Vietnamese Army.

McMaster details why military actions intended to indicate "resolve" or to "communicate" ultimately failed when trying to accomplish sparsely detailed, confusing, and conflicting military objectives.

He has the background to make a great NSA based upon Wikipedia. Infinitely better than Flynn or Bolton.

Cute parody site story on him making homemade wings and getting injured using them.

http://www.duffelblog.com/2014/12/hr-mcmaster-injured-army/

According to senior defense officials, McMaster apparently mounted the roof of ARCIC Headquarters using a ladder in the fourth-floor stairwell. After gauging the wind with the standard licked finger method, he backed up ten or twelve steps, screamed “Attica!” and charged headlong at the ledge. Witnesses report that he was flapping madly the entire time. Once he was out over the open air, he hung in empty space for almost ten seconds.

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5. I suppose that's one way to fill the position.

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10. Night of the Generals

to many.

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11. Heres a link to an article 5 Things You Need to Know About Gen. McMaster's

http://heavy.com/news/2017/02/h-r-mcmaster-donald-trump-national-security-adviser-wife-career-bio-age-who-is-books-flynn/


1. McMaster Wrote the Book ‘Dereliction of Duty,’ Criticizing Vietnam-Era Officers

2. McMaster Warned That the Army Is ‘Outranged & Outgunned by Many Potential Adversaries’

3. McMaster Says the Army Needs to Work Together & Calls Cyber-Terrorism a ‘Significant Threat’

4. McMaster’s Success at the Battle of 73 Easting Was Included in a Tom Clancy Novel

5. McMaster Is a Student of Military History Who Sees Similarities in All Wars

The one that bothers me is #2. That's all we need, billions more $ that we don't have, budgeted for the bloated Military!