"The most significant shift in US policy since the end of the Cold War”

As President Trump's National Security Advisor, General H.R. McMaster was instrumental in recalibrating American strategy toward geo-political heavyweights, Russia and China. In this eye-opening interview on his new book “Battlegrounds,” the “architect of the future U.S. army” outlines what he sees as the biggest military and political dangers threatening the free world. McMaster candidly discusses the greatest strengths and weaknesses of the 45th US President and reveals why he abruptly departed Trump’s White House after thirteen, short, tumultuous, yet decisive, months.

“This is not the book that most people wanted me to write,” General H.R. McMaster announces in the preface to "Battlegrounds,” his new, sweeping, 560-page memoir.  Friends, agents, editors, and even family members lobbied the former national security advisor to pen a splashy tell-all about advising one of the most controversial and unconventional leaders in American history,  to, as he puts it, “confirm their opinions of President Donald Trump” — or, as Washington wags like to say, tell where all of the bodies are buried, figuratively speaking, of course.  

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