Battlegrounds by H R Mcmaster

Battlegrounds by H R Mcmaster

New York Times Bestseller

Now with new text from McMaster addressing the January 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol and recommending how citizens across the free world can work together to restore confidence in democratic institutions and processes

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. 

H.R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institute. He is also a Freeman Spogli Institute Susan and Bernard Liautaud Fellow and a Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Management. He is the chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Center on Military and Political Power's advisory board, as well as the Hudson Institute's Japan Chair. H.R. is a native of Philadelphia. In 1984, he graduated from the United States Military Academy.

He was a member of the United States military. For 34 years, he served in the army and retired as a lieutenant general in 2018. While serving as the president's twenty-sixth assistant for national security matters, he remained on active duty. He earned his PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and taught history at West Point.