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Now entering the final chapters of AT WAR WITH OURSELVES: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House (2024) by H.R. McMaster which recounts his time serving as the National Security Advisor during Trump's first term before he was dismissed in 2018.
Not really a tell-all book, but it does paint a very interesting picture of what an uphill battle it was to develop and implement national security policies in the face of all the challenges that the U.S. had to deal with at the time.
Though I am no fan of Trump, the book does give credit to him for being willing to shake things up and take new approaches to foreign policy. But there were too many bad actors (both inside the beltway and across the globe) to get those efforts across the finish line.
McMaster, who retired as a three-star general shortly after leaving the NSA position, served 34 years in the Army with service in Operation Desert Storm, Afghanistan, and Iraq. His PhD history thesis was reworked and published as the book DERELICTION OF DUTY (1997) and in 2020 he wrote BATTLEGROUNDS which reviews the strengths and weaknesses of U.S. foreign policy towards Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, The Middle East, and South Asia.
I hope this latest book of his finishes strong so I can consider adding it to my permanent collection along with his earlier work.
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