Ep. 1: H.R. McMaster on the Gulf War

Biography

H. R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He was the 26th assistant to the president for National Security Affairs. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy and served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army for thirty-four years before retiring as a Lieutenant General in June 2018.

He is the author of Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World and Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam. 

Times

• 03:10 - Introduction
• 04:02 - Biography
• 06:35 - Leading Eagle Troop
• 08:16 - Post Cold War preparation for Desert Shield and Desert Storm
• 15:17 - The Battle of the 73 Easting
• 23:17 - Advantages of the American military
• 26:12 - Overconfidence in American military dominance
• 29:16 - China's reaction to the Gulf War and technological development
• 32:30 - China's tactics
• 35:04 - The Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan

Recorded August 31, 2021