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
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