H.R. McMaster holds esteemed positions as the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and as the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute. Additionally, he serves as a lecturer at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.

Upon graduating from the U.S. Military Academy in 1984, McMaster embarked on a distinguished 34-year career in the U.S. Army, retiring in June 2018 at the rank of lieutenant general. Notably, he served as the 25th Assistant to the U.S. President for National Security Affairs. Between 2014 and 2017, McMaster played a pivotal role in shaping the future army as the director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center and deputy commanding general, futures, of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). As the commanding general of the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, he oversaw all training and education for the army’s infantry, armor, and cavalry forces.

His wartime command experience includes leading the Combined Joint Inter-Agency Task Force—Shafafiyat in Kabul, Afghanistan, from 2010 to 2012; the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment in Iraq from 2005 to 2006; and Eagle Troop, Second Armored Cavalry Regiment during Operation Desert Storm from 1990 to 1991. McMaster also served as an advisor to senior commanders in the Middle East, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

McMaster holds a Ph.D. in military history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He previously served as an assistant professor of history at the U.S. Military Academy. He is the author of the bestselling books "Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World" and "Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam." In August 2024, he published his latest book, "At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House." His extensive essays, articles, and book reviews on leadership, history, and the future of warfare have been featured in The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, National Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.

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