H. R. McMaster Quotes
It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.
McMaster, H. R. "Continuity and Change: The Army Operating Concept and Clear Thinking About Future War." Military Review, vol. 95, no. 2, Army University Press, 2015, p. 20.
Von Stuben brought a formal discipline and organization to the American army and is referred to as “The Father of the U. S. Army.” Beaumarchais was a leading dramatist as well as a secret agent and his communiqués were doubtless the most flowery in the history of espionage and spying.
The General refused. He had already achieved a strategic victory and it was only a matter of time when the Dutch would withdraw on their own as their supply lines were cut off and the populations wanted them out.
He was objecting to the current crop of senior military officer who have little experience in fighting and much in academic, strategic and technical training. Many however see him as a dinosaur who does not realized the complex nature of the modern military missions. In general, we have won almost all of our fighting battles but often failed in our maintaining civil society, occupation, nation building, military procurement, preventing sexual assault of our own troops by our own soldiers, assuring mental health of our soldiers. Hackworth, detractors argue, wants to change what already works and ignore what does not.
General Shafter had a major attack of Gout, a terribly painful disease for which there was little relief at the time. As a result he had little involvement in the battle of Santiago at the most critical period. Crassus was an incompetent general in a famous Roman battle.
Of her husband, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America:
The term “your” referred to the imperialists in America who were supporters of the war in the Philippines. There were some unfortunate atrocities committed by American officers. See General Jacob H. Smith: {42097}.
Attlee was not the first person who observed this phenomenon about peace and war politics but his articulation of it is classic.
Ikle wrote this over a decade before both the military and civilian leaders fell into this trap in the 1994 Iraq War.
Herbert Raymond McMaster is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General who served as the 26th United States National Security Advisor from 2017 to 2018. He is also known for his roles in the Gulf War, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
