LTG H.R. McMaster
H.R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Stanford University. A native of Philadelphia, H.R. graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1984. He served as an Army officer for thirty-four years and retired as a Lieutenant General in 2018. He remained on active duty while serving as the twenty-sixth assistant to the president for national security affairs. McMaster taught history at West Point and holds a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.