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McMaster says U.S. military faces a huge bow wave of deferred modernization and failure to procure at scale. [1]
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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 says U.S. military faces a huge bow wave of deferred modernization and failure to procure at scale. [1]
Read the supporting quotation · Forbes Breaking News · 2026-07-31
“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 says government cannot handle all cyber threats and private sector solutions must be encouraged. [1]
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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 says U.S. military faces a huge bow wave of deferred modernization and failure to procure at scale. [1]
Read the supporting quotation · Forbes Breaking News · 2026-07-31
“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.”
Selected points from existing editorial summaries and source excerpts. This covers the material on this page.
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McMaster says government cannot handle all cyber threats and private sector solutions must be encouraged. [1]
Read the supporting quotation · Forbes Breaking News · 2026-07-31
“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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Quoted in printThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“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,”
National Security Adviser a two-time Carolina graduate - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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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.”
“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.”
“ 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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“ [ 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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“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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“ [ 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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“. [ 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 ”
