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    What H.R. McMaster’s retirement reveals

    by James Stavridis Apr 09, 2018 3 minutes

    I MET COLONEL H.R. MCMASTER IN THE early years of the Iraq War, when he was in command of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment in Tal Afar, Iraq. It was a hot and dusty day, and I was a three-star Vice Admiral traveling with my boss at the time, Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld. McMaster, who looks like he ought to be working as a bouncer in a city bar in the Badlands neighborhood of his Philadelphia hometown, briefed us on his work in pacifying the violent region with an adept

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