The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) recently added U.S. Army Lt. Gen. (Ret.) H.R. McMaster to the FPRI Board of Trustees.
A combat veteran with 34 years as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army, McMaster also holds a doctorate in military history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, according to an FPRI news release. In combat, McMaster served as commander of the Combined Joint Interagency Task Force – Shafafiyat in Kabul, Afghanistan from 2010 to 2012; commander of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Iraq from 2005 to 2006; and commander of Eagle Troop, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Operation Desert Storm from 1990 to 1991.
“We are very excited and deeply honored to have General McMaster join our Board of Trustees. He is one of his generation’s most preeminent soldier-scholars, and he will bring to FPRI an extraordinary perspective on international affairs and a unique understanding of our nation’s defense and national security challenges,” Rollie Flynn, president of FPRI, said in the release.
From 1994 to 1996, McMaster taught undergraduate courses in military history and history of the Korean and Vietnam Wars as an assistant professor of history at the United States Military Academy, according to the release. He also served in peacetime as Deputy Commanding General, Futures, of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.
“H.R. McMaster combines extensive high-level practical experience with a scholarly mindset – a perfect fit with FPRI,” Robert Freedman, chair of the FPRI Board of Trustees, said in the release.
FPRI plans to host a book talk with McMaster on Friday, Oct. 16, moderated by Robert Kaplan, to discuss McMaster’s forthcoming book "Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World," according to the post. This is McMaster’s second book, and his first, "Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam," was a New York Times bestseller.
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