Posted on 02/20/2017 11:59:35 AM PST by GIdget2004
@potus has named Lt Gen HR McMaster as the Director of the National Security Council, Lt Gen Keith Kellogg remains NSC CoS
(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...
I’ve read in several articles that Bolton has a photographic memory and has instant recall re small details. This ability alone would make him very useful, if it is true.
“The book showed me someone who is not afraid to criticize what he sees as wrong and improper.”
It shows that in spades. The sort of courage in shortest supply among those who put their career first.
Excellent!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3527180/posts?page=25#25
I got your book; gotta start reading it...
Amazon will do it.... if its owner continues his angry anti-Constitution propaganda.
Maj Gen McMaster is a great choice.
His book, which was originally his thesis, is required reading for all officers and is on the USMC Commandant’s reading list.
It tells a very sad and sordid tale.
An administration that was so obsessed with domestic policies and politics that it failed to properly conduct the war in Vietnam.
Worst still, a Joint Chiefs who because of rivalries and political pressure were unable to properly advice the President or even to tell the truth of what was really going on.
....Sound familiar?
Maj Gen McMaster is a blunt talking hard charging officer who has never been afraid to speak his mind and to step on toes.
He was passed up for promotion to Brig Gen twice because of that.
It took the combined efforts of Gen Petraus and SecArmy Geren to get him his first star.
Are you okay with McMaster? I’m watching a few interviews now. Not sure yet personally but I trust our President’s judgment.
Ha...I read and still own that book. I didn’t realize he was the author.
you are foolish in the extreme for allowing radical politics to interfere with business
LBJ inherited McNamara from Kennedy who thought McNamara was brilliant. JFK was the dope there. LBJ wasn’t a dope, he was a consummate liar just like McNamara.
“During the Gulf War in 1991 he was a captain commanding Eagle Troop of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of 73 Easting.[2] During that battle, though significantly outnumbered and encountering the enemy by surprise as McMaster’s lead tank crested a dip in the terrain, the nine tanks of Eagle Troop destroyed over eighty Iraqi Republican Guard tanks and other vehicles without loss, due to the Abrams tank being state-of-the-art armored technology while the Iraqi equipment included grossly outdated T-62s and -72s of the Soviet era as well as similarly dated Type 69s of Chinese manufacture.[3]
McMaster was awarded the Silver Star...”
A Leo and a Scot sounds like the right pick.
;)
Irish, (half Scot myself)
Mike Flynn seemed like a good, honest person also. I feel bad for him. Perhaps he was a bit naive on the good will of Russian officials.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for readjusting our relationship with Russia, a shakeup of NATO, etc...but after having lived in Russia, I don’t have the best impression of its leaders in terms of their moral character. The corruption is depressing and the people really lose out. :( -
On the macroscale though there is still room for cooperation.
Wonder what McMaster’s instincts on Russia are...
Whaddyathink? Is this a step up, step down, or step across from the other guy who got canned?
Another Obama General. It’s only time before Trump rolls snake eyes on one of them. I hope this isn’t the one.
I had a good long talk with him in Iraq.
My impression of him was that he had a well-grounded personality - a real mensch. Took his job seriously, but was not hung up on himself, and treated others well. Also, I was struck that he seemed very intellectually honest about the topic that he was studying - open to any ideas to solve the challenge at hand, and objective in assessing them.
“Worst still, a Joint Chiefs who because of rivalries and political pressure were unable to properly advice the President or even to tell the truth of what was really going on.”
Not exactly.
At the beginning of the book McMaster describes how JFK dismantled the national security advisory structure that he inherited from Eisenhower.
This cut the JCS out of the decision making loop. They no longer could hear policy debates nor offer their input.
LBJ took this bad policy up several notches, consciously lying to the JCS with McNamara and Taylor playing along. And they exploited interservice rivalry to keep the JCS from ever forming a unified front to challenge the terrible strategy that they were being required to implement.
It took the combined efforts of Gen Petraus and SecArmy Geren to get him his first star.
And it took the combined efforts of Hagel and Obama to get him his third star. I’ll reserve judgement here until we have some facts in his role as NSA.
“Another Obama General.”
An ‘Obama General’?
McMaster?
You haven’t the remotest idea of what you are talking about.
His 8 tanks defeated 80 iraqi tanks they stumbled upon.
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