We are honored today to host Lieutenant General h. R. Mcmaster, Board Director of the Atlantic Council and senior fellow at stanfords hoover institution, and the 26th assistant for the president for National Security affairs. General mcmaster joins us for a discussion of u. S. Grant strategy with a particular emphasis on u. S. Foreignpolicy regarding china and the middle east. There are a few who bring a more , as agic mindset historian, as a retired officer with 34 years of experience in the u. S. Army, and is one of our nations senior policymakers. , generalw book mcmaster lays out what he sees as a new vision for a better u. S. National firm policy. He advises the use of strategic empathy to better know and understand our adversaries and using that perspective to rather thanrategies episodic or shortterm engagements to solve longterm problems. General mcmaster has cited one of the great examples of Strategic Thinking and character and our foreignpolicy leaders as an inspiration and
Atlantic Council Front page, or ac front page, a Global Platform for global leaders. We have had heads of state, heads of government and former cabinet level officials and International Cabinet level officials, International Organization leaders, and sometimes they also are new authors of this wonderful book that i am going to talk a little bit more about in a minute. We are honored today to host Lieutenant General h. R. Mcmaster, Board Director of the Atlantic Council and a senior fellow at stanfords hoover institution, and the 26th assistant for the president for National Security affairs. General mcmaster joins us for a discussion of u. S. Grand strategy with a particular emphasis on u. S. Foreignpolicy regarding china and the middle east. There are few who bring a more strategic mindset on these issues, as a historian, as a retired officer with 34 years of experience in the u. S. Army, and as one of our nations senior policymakers. In his new book, general mcmaster lays out what he
Presidency along with the 117th congress should do about them. I am joined by a distant wish group of scholars and friends from numerous institutions all around washington but nonetheless, reflecting a real divergence and breadth of thinking experience and approach in thinking about these kinds of things. Lots of handson expertise. Americanat the new initiative at the Atlantic Council. He is a longstanding scholar. Any of you will know him for his years at the Cato Institute many of you will know him for his years at the Cato Institute. He is a former navy officer and is in many ways one of the great skeptics and contrarian voices in American Foreign policy who i have known for a long time and am really pleased to have them with us in this event. , the Catholic University he used to be at cato as well. He recently wrote a important article called of the case for the throng from the middle east. He is an advocate of minimizing the u. S. Military footprint. I think it is fair to say that
Administration or a new term of an Old Administration depending what happens, but in time for the stocktaking going around the world on how to open the economy when the u. S. Has behaved as it has for the past four years, but also equally importantly, when we are all facing the vulnerabilities that came out of the pandemic. Before introducing my colleagues that will be speaking today to the National Economic council and the economic advisers and trade policy and industrial policy about the u. S. , china dialogue, let me say a couple of words about the rebuilding project. We come from different classes but they reinforce each other paid we went through decades in which they went handinhand, the International Peace and posterity. That has not gone well since the Global Financial crisis and the pandemic has intensified those actions. Face, real risk we all Climate Change, technological slowdown and oppression and disinformation and the loss of privacy are all rising in a world in which th
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