July, 2008.
Tcswrgp's List: BG H. R. McMaster
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Afghanistan
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Aug 19, 10
Army Brig. Gen. H.R. McMaster, one of the military's key out-the-box strategic thinkers, is going to Afghanistan as an aide to new Afghan commander Army Gen. David H. Petraeus.
Gen. McMaster is director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center's (ARCIC) Concepts Development and Experimentation Directorate, part of the Army Training and Doctrine Command in Virginia. He was picked up by Gen. Petraeus for duty in Afghanistan two weeks ago.
Source: Bill Gertz, Washington Times. 14 July 2010.
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Aug 19, 10
Expertise: American political and diplomatic history, national security, military history, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism.
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Aug 19, 10
The Wall Street Journal reports that, to help ensure that the coalition does a better job of fighting corruption, Petraeus is assigning Brigadier General H.R. McMaster — one of the brightest and most famous officers in the entire army — to spearhead a new task force dealing with this problem.
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McMaster's Writing
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in conjunction with a U.S. Marine Corps team under the direction of Lieutenant General James Mattis.
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The doctrinal manual was built around two big ideas: first, that protecting the population was the key to success in any counterinsurgency campaign, and second, that to succeed in counterinsurgency, an army has to be able to learn and adapt more rapidly than its enemies.
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Biographical
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
According to Scales, the word in Army circles is that McMaster will be given a key role shaping future Army doctrine. "We are in a very similar place now to the period after Vietnam in the 1970s, when a lot of officers returned and everyone was asking 'What is next?' " said Scales. "It's time now for the Army to think about the future and institutionally anticipate the changing nature of war." -
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he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the Joint Chiefs of Staff handling of the Vietnam War.
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General Petraeus chaired the selection board
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Army Col. John A. Davis for promotion to the grade of brigadier general. He is currently as deputy commander, Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations, Defense Information Systems Agency, Arlington, Va.
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Petraeus is assigning Brigadier General H.R. McMaster — one of the brightest and most famous officers in the entire army — to spearhead a new task force dealing with this problem.
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