Consulting Senior Fellow
Expertise:
Main responsibilities: Conduct research to identify opportunities for improved multi-national cooperation and political-military integration in the areas of counterinsurgency, counter-terrorism, and state building.
Background: Colonel H.R. McMaster is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and holds a PhD in military history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of the book Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam (1997), and among his many other publication is the 2003 monograph, Crack in the Foundation: Defense Transformation and the Underlying Assumption of Dominant Knowledge in Future War . Colonel McMaster served as an assistant professor of history at the U.S. Military Academy from 1994 to 1996. He is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution on War Revolution and Peace and a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. Colonel McMaster joined US Central Command in May 2003, serving as Director, Commander’s Advisory Group until May 2004. From June 2004 until June 2006, Colonel McMaster served as the 71st Colonel of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment.
Joined IISS: September 2006
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