![]() ![]() Many specialists, myself included, criticized former President Barack Obama’s team for being sloppier about the way that they blurred the lines between the president’s partisan political interests and the national interest. Bush strove mightily to achieve this and, in my experience, largely succeeded. ![]() From the outset, McMaster will face at least three important civil-military challenges.įirst, he will need to build a presidential advisory process that develops and debates options in a candid setting where every professional voice is free to speak and where the perceived taint of partisan politics is not believed to have corrupted the process. But he may also need to tap something else that he has in particular abundance - a finely tuned sensibility for the norms of proper civil-military relations. He will need to draw on that reservoir to deal with the geostrategic challenges confronting the country. The pick has generated near unanimous support across party lines and so McMaster will start his new assignment with a very large reservoir of a resource that is all too rare in Washington these days: trust and good will. McMaster to replace Mike Flynn as National Security Advisor (NSA). ![]() ![]() President Donald Trump has made a fine pick in tapping Lt. ![]()
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