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| US President Donald Trump shakes hands with US Army Lieutenant General
H.R. McMaster (L) as his national security adviser at his Mar-a-Lago
resort in Palm Beach, Florida. (AFP)
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United States President Donald Trump has named US Army Lieutenant
General H.R. McMaster as his new national security adviser on Monday,
taking over the post left vacant after Michael Flynn’s resignation.
Trump
called McMaster, a career Army officer and prominent expert on
counterinsurgency warfare, a “man of tremendous talent and tremendous
experience.”
“He is highly respected by
everyone in the military and we’re very honored to have him,” Trump told
reporters at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida.
He
spoke sitting alongside McMaster, who was dressed in uniform. Trump
said McMaster would work alongside acting national security adviser
Keith Kellogg, a retired three-star general, in a “very, very special”
collaboration.
McMaster, who heads the
Army Capabilities and Integration Center and is deputy commanding
general of the Futures Center at US Army Training and Doctrine Command
at Fort Eustis, previously directed a transparency task force in
Afghanistan.
He also held key roles in the
Iraq War and Gulf War, and is known for his criticism of the US
military’s involvement in the Vietnam War.
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