{"id":30917,"date":"2017-02-21T22:28:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T22:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=30917"},"modified":"2017-02-21T22:28:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T22:28:57","slug":"trump-names-h-r-mcmaster-as-national-security-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=30917","title":{"rendered":"Trump names H R McMaster as national security advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US President Donald Trump (Center) announces H.R. McMaster (Left) as his national security adviser and Keith Kellogg (Right) as McMaster\u2019s chief of staff at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Monday. AFP Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

International Desk: Donald Trump tapped respected Army lieutenant general H.R. McMaster as his national security advisor Monday, hoping to course correct after his first pick resigned and his second turned down the vital post, reports AFP.<\/p>\n

Trump announced the counterinsurgency strategist\u2019s appointment at his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago, ending a one-week search to replace Michael Flynn, who lasted less than a month on the job.Flynn was forced to resign on February 13, after questionable contacts with the Russian government and revelations that he lied about them to the vice president and the FBI.<\/p>\n

Trump scrambled to replace Flynn after retired vice admiral Robert Harward turned down the post, amid a wrangling over lower-level National Security Council appointments and a meandering Trump press conference.<\/p>\n

The White House said that Trump \u201cgave full authority for McMaster to hire whatever staff he sees fit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 54-year-old McMaster is know for his criticism of the US military\u2019s handling of Vietnam War and his own service as a commander in northern Iraq in 2005.<\/p>\n

A 1997 book he authored is pointedly titled \u201cDereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies That Led to Vietnam.\u201d<\/p>\n

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes was prompt to praise McMaster\u2019s \u201chistory of questioning the status quo and infusing fresh thinking and new approaches into military affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n

His experience in Iraq\u2019s Tal Afar is likely to come in useful as US and allied forces attempt to retake nearby Mosul from the Islamic State group.<\/p>\n

McMaster, still dressed in uniform, appeared with Trump on a sofa in the glitzy living room of Mar-a-Lago as music played overhead.<\/p>\n

Trump described McMaster as \u201cman of tremendous talent and tremendous experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is highly respected by everyone in the military and we\u2019re very honored to have him.\u201d
\nMcMaster is another name on the long list of Trump advisors who have been plucked from the military.<\/p>\n

Among others, Trump has named retired officers as his defense secretary and homeland security secretary.<\/p>\n

McMaster was most recently the deputy commanding general of the Futures Center at US Army Training and Doctrine Command at Fort Eustis.<\/p>\n

Trump said McMaster would work in a \u201cvery, very special\u201d collaboration with Keith Kellogg, a retired three-star general who had served as acting national security advisor since Flynn resigned a week ago.<\/p>\n

Kellogg will act as NSC chief of staff.<\/p>\n

Former president Barack Obama\u2019s last national security advisor, Susan Rice, congratulated McMaster on his appointment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish you every success,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In the path of Kissinger -The post of national security advisor is a crucial, if discreet, engine for White House power and the smooth functioning of government.<\/p>\n

Henry Kissinger and Colin Powell are among those who previously held the post.<\/p>\n

The national security advisor manages hundreds of staff members, arbitrates between sometimes feuding government departments, balances foreign policy and military policy and ensures the president\u2019s national security agenda gets implemented.<\/p>\n

Current and former staffers fear that under Trump the council is currently being bypassed as political aides like strategist Steve Bannon seize the agenda.<\/p>\n

They point to an ill-conceived ban on travelers from seven majority-Muslim nations that further complicated counterterrorism partnerships in the Middle East and sullied America\u2019s image abroad, but was ultimately struck down by US courts.<\/p>\n

If policy is \u201cbeing done over dinner with the president, or in Steve Bannon\u2019s office or haphazardly via email or phone calls\u201d said Loren DeJonge Schulman\u2014a veteran of Barack Obama\u2019s NSC\u2014then \u201cthey are shooting themselves in the foot because you can\u2019t implement foreign policy from the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is something that President Obama learned, this is something that every administration goes through,\u201d she told AFP.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing on Fox News and announcing a policy doesn\u2019t mean that policy is going to be executed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

International Desk: Donald Trump tapped respected Army lieutenant general H.R. McMaster as his national security advisor Monday, hoping to course correct after his first pick resigned and his second turned down the vital post, reports AFP. Trump announced the counterinsurgency strategist\u2019s appointment at his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago, ending a one-week search to replace Michael Flynn, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n