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63/100Critics
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95/100Author:
H.R. McMaster
Publisher:
Harper/HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C.
Date:
September 22, 2020
Lt. General H.R. McMaster, U.S. Army, ret., the former National Security Advisor under President Trump examines some of the critical foreign policy and national security challenges that face the United States and offers ideas on foreign policy.
What The Reviewers Say
McMaster writes of his White House time with surprising detachment.
He is clearly not a man who suffers fools gladly and Battlegrounds, his assessment of the US’s strategic imperatives, does not shy away from exposing the many weaknesses in the country’s foreign policy.
Without question, Battlegrounds emanates from noble sentiments. The former national security advisor is concerned for our nation’s future and takes readers on a global tour evaluating the threats from Russian disinformation campaigns to Chinese authoritarianism and Iranian efforts to become a nuclear power. The world is a dangerous place, yet in McMaster’s view, self-satisfied American policymakers have placed the nation at risk because they somehow 'forgot that they had to compete.'.
In it, we learn almost nothing about his interactions with Trump or his personal opinion of the man. McMaster holds up this decision as a virtue, prefacing his book with a brushback statement that amounts to a pox on both houses.
