H. R. McMaster. (2020). Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World. Unabridged HarperAudio.

H. R. McMaster. 2020. Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World. HarperAudio.

H. R. McMaster, Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World. HarperAudio, 2020.

H. R. McMaster. Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2020.

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     H. R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Stanford University. He is also the Susan and Bernard Liautaud Fellow at The Freeman Spogli Institute and Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He serves as chairman of the advisory board of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Japan Chair at the Hudson Institute. A native of Philadelphia, H.R. graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1984. He served as a U.S. Army officer for thirty-four years and retired as a lieutenant general in 2018. He remained on active duty while serving as the twenty-sixth assistant to the president for national security affairs. He taught history at West Point and holds a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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     H. R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Stanford University. He is also the Susan and Bernard Liautaud Fellow at The Freeman Spogli Institute and Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He serves as chairman of the advisory board of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Japan Chair at the Hudson Institute. A native of Philadelphia, H.R. graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1984. He served as a U.S. Army officer for thirty-four years and retired as a lieutenant general in 2018. He remained on active duty while serving as the twenty-sixth assistant to the president for national security affairs. He taught history at West Point and holds a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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From Lt. General H.R. McMaster, U.S. Army, ret., the former National Security Advisor and author of the bestselling classic Dereliction of Duty, comes a bold and provocative re-examination of the most critical foreign policy and national security challenges that face the United States, and an urgent call to compete to preserve America's standing and security.

Across multiple administrations since the end of the Cold War, American foreign policy has been misconceived, inconsistent, and poorly implemented. As a result, America and the free world have fallen behind rivals in power and influence. Meanwhile threats to security, freedom, and prosperity, such as nuclear proliferation and jihadist terrorism have grown. In BATTLEGROUNDS, H.R. McMaster describes efforts to reassess and fundamentally shift policies while he was National Security Advisor. And he provides a clear pathway forward to improve strategic competence and prevail in complex competitions against our adversaries.

BATTLEGROUNDS is a groundbreaking reassessment of America's place in the world, drawing from McMaster's long engagement with these issues, including 34 years of service in the U.S. Army with multiple tours of duty in battlegrounds overseas and his 13 months as National Security Advisor in the Trump White House. It is also a powerful call for Americans and citizens of the free world to transcend the vitriol of partisan political discourse, better educate themselves about the most significant challenges to national and international security and work together to secure peace and prosperity for future generations.

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     November 15, 2020
     The retired general and former national security adviser limns the failures of American foreign policy. Although he was forced out for being insufficiently laudatory about Donald Trump's fawning approach to dictators in Russia, North Korea, and elsewhere, McMaster's criticisms of his former boss are more nuanced than one might expect. While being interviewed for the job as national security adviser after Michael Flynn was himself forced out, he writes, "President Trump seemed sympathetic to my observation that the United States had not competed effectively in recent years and that, as a result, determined adversaries had gained strength and our power and influence had diminished." In this ongoing degradation, the U.S. had lost ground, especially to Russia and China, both of which played the long game in geopolitics, leaving the U.S. a victim of its own "strategic narcissism." That flaw, writes the author, plagues both the right and the left, abetted by the likes of George Soros and Charles Koch to the same effect. McMaster finds fault in the strategic policies of the last several administrations, though none more so than Trump's, which he seems to view as feckless. Certainly, Trump's people have not been able to counter adequately what in military-speak is called RNGW, or "Russia new-generation warfare." The fundamental problem, he suggests, is psychological, even spiritual. "Our will is diminished," writes McMaster. "As our foreign policies swung from over-optimism to resignation, identity politics interacted with new forms of populism." The manifestations are political polarity, an inability (even if Trump was amenable to the idea) to counter Russian cyberwarfare and especially electoral interference, "diminishing trust in authoritative sources of information," a "toxic environment in Washington," and, as one international relations expert put it, the inability to play a strong hand well even as adversaries play poor hands well. An illuminating source of geopolitical insight without the tell-all urgency of so many other books by former Trump aides.

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