During the Gulf War in 1991 he was a captain commanding Eagle Troop of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of 73 Easting. During that battle, though significantly outnumbered and encountering the enemy by surprise as McMaster’s lead tank crested a dip in the terrain, the nine tanks of Eagle Troop destroyed over eighty Iraqi Republican Guard tanks and other vehicles without loss, due to the Abrams tank being state-of-the-art armored technology while the Iraqi equipment included grossly outdated T-62s and -72s of the Soviet era as well as similarly dated Type 69s of Chinese manufacture.<\/p>\n
McMaster was awarded the Silver Star. The battle features in several books about Desert Storm and is widely referred to in US Army training exercises.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
His book, “Dereliction of Duty” criticized commanders in Vietnam for failing to confront civilian leadership about the realities of the Vietnam War and it was a best seller in the halls of the Pentagon in the years leading up to the war against terror.<\/p>\n
In April 2014, McMaster made Time’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. He is hailed as “the architect of the future U.S. Army” in the accompanying piece written by retired Lt. Gen. Dave Barno, who commanded U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2005. “Major General Herbert Raymond McMaster might be the 21st century Army’s pre-eminent warrior-thinker,” Barno wrote. “Recently tapped for his third star, H.R. is also the rarest of soldiers\u2014one who has repeatedly bucked the system and survived to join its senior ranks.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
We chewed the same sand when my unit passed through his from 73 Easting to Objective Norfolk through the swath of destruction his soldiers had cut through the Iraqi Army.<\/p>\n
The Marines have Mattis, and the Army has McMaster – now Trump has them both on his team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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