OSWEGO — It always surprises us when someone says they have never been to a performance produced by the Oswego Players or, even more surprising, they have never heard of
America the Coercive: On H. R. McMaster’s “Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World”
H. R. McMaster
IN THE SPRING of 2006, H. R. McMaster visited West Point, where he had once taught in the history department. The US Army colonel had recently gained national prominence for the 3rd Cavalry Regiment’s counterinsurgency campaign in Tal Afar, a hotly contested area in northwest Iraq. President George W. Bush was publicly praising the campaign that “worked so well in Tal Afar” because it gave him “confidence in our strategy.” McMaster returned home a triumphant warrior from a conflict producing far too few heroes for Americans’ liking.