HR McMaster: war hero and intellectual who couldn’t curb Trump

Lieutenant General HR McMaster gained fame for a landmark book blaming politicians for the US debacle in Vietnam. After one year at the White House as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, he likely doesn’t have a higher opinion of Washington’s political elites. On Thursday McMaster announced he would be stepping down to make way for Bush-era defense hawk John Bolton — and became the latest victim of the never ending bedlam, infighting and capriciousness that has ch