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McMaster says U.S. military faces a huge bow wave of deferred modernization and failure to procure at scale.
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“I think what we're seeing in our military to a large extent is there's a huge bow wave of deferred modernization, and I think a failure to procure weapons and and capabilities at scale.”
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McMaster argues cyber defense must assume breaches will occur and focus on resilience and recovery capabilities.
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“Something may get through. But once it gets through, what have you built in terms of resilience and the ability to recover and restore operations?”
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McMaster says government cannot handle all cyber threats and private sector solutions must be encouraged.
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“So I I think that encouraging those kind of private sector solutions because the government there's no way the government can do it all, and I defer to some of our real cyber experts here.”
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McMaster states mature technologies exist for emerging threats but have not been fielded at scale.
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“There are mature technologies that that that we can apply to these emerging threats, but they they have not been fielded at scale yet.”
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McMaster says Putin lied directly to Trump and negotiating with Russia is dangerous.
“Vladimir Putin looked Trump in the eye and lied to him. We negotiate with Russia at our peril,”
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McMaster faced coordinated attacks from Bannon allies and Russian bots after firing NSC staff.
“ after he fired several National Security Council staff members. [ 60 ] [ 61 ] [ 62 ] White House officials and journalists suspected Steve Bannon of leading these attacks. [ 63 ] [ 64 ] Attorney Mike Cernovich , radio host Alex Jones and Breitbart News were among the foremost promoters of the anti-McMaster campaign; Cernovich's website for the campaign also included a cartoon depicting McMaster, which the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) labeled antisemitic . [ 65 ] [ 66 ] In addition, the Center for Security Policy criticized McMaster for being insufficiently conservative and for not supporting Trump's agenda. [ 67 ] [ 68 ] [ 69 ] The Russian intelligence services used internet bots and trolls to campaign to get McMaster out. The anti-McMaster campaign prompted dismissive responses by administration officials, and a statement from Trump affirming his confidence in McMaster. [ 70 ] [ 71 ] In February 2018, McMaster said that it was ”
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McMaster argues the Joint Chiefs had minimal influence on Vietnam strategy decisions.
“This paper will argue that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had little influence over the effort to devise a strategy for American military intervention in Vietnam,”
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Trump nominated McMaster as National Security Advisor on February 20, 2017, requiring Senate confirmation.
“ [ 51 ] On February 20, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump nominated McMaster for National Security Advisor following the resignation of Michael T. Flynn [ 52 ] [ 53 ] on February 13. [ 54 ] Trump asked McMaster to remain on active duty while he served as national security advisor. [ 55 ] [ 56 ] Because McMaster intended to remain on active duty, his official assumption of the National Security Advisor's duties and responsibilities required a United States Senate vote; lieutenant generals and generals require Senate confirmation of their rank and assignments. [ 57 ] On March 6, 2017, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted 23–2 to recommend to the full Senate that McMaster be confirmed for reappointment at his lieutenant general rank during his service as the National Security Advisor. [ 58 ] The committee recommendation was referred to the Senate on March 7, and the full Senate confirmed McMaster by a vote of 86–10 on March 15, 2017. [ 59 ] In early August, McMaster was targeted by what some deemed a ”
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Bolton replaced McMaster as National Security Advisor on April 9, 2018.
“ [ 160 ] Bolton was seen at the White House on the evening of March 6, 2018, presumably to be interviewed as a candidate for national security adviser. [ 161 ] The New York Times reported on March 22, 2018, that John Bolton would replace National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster, which was confirmed by Trump in a tweet later that day. Bolton began his position as National Security Advisor on April 9, 2018. [ 162 ] [ 163 ] The New York Times wrote that the rise of Bolton and Mike Pompeo , coupled with the departure of Rex Tillerson and General McMaster, meant Trump's foreign policy team was now ”
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Bolton pushed for complete Iran deal withdrawal while McMaster and Tillerson sought fixes.
“. [ 323 ] Unlike several of President Trump's early national security officials like National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson , Bolton campaigned to press President Trump for a complete withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran (the JCPOA) and rejected the idea it could be fixed. Unable at the time to directly present his position to President Trump, Bolton published his proposal on how to withdraw from the Iran deal in an August 28, 2017 National Review Online article. [ 324 ] After he was named to succeed McMaster as Nation Security Adviser in April 2018, Bolton pressed the President to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal , a decision President Trump announced a month later. [ 170 ] Bolton has been one of the biggest anti-Iran hawks in the Trump administration. [ 325 ] Speaking to a meeting of Iranian exile group Mujahedin-e-Khalq in March 2018, Bolton said the Trump administration should follow the goal of regime change in Iran and that ”
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McMaster repeatedly challenged the military system and still reached senior ranks.
“Recently tapped for his third star, H. R. is also the rarest of soldiers—one who has repeatedly bucked the system and survived to join its senior ranks.”
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McMaster is described as the Army's leading warrior-thinker of the 21st century.
“Major General Herbert Raymond McMaster might be the 21st century Army's pre-eminent warrior-thinker,”
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