Former national security adviser and retired three-star Army Gen. H.R. McMaster is returning to Stanford to take on a job as a visiting fellow this fall, Defense News reported Tuesday.
The military news outlet, citing a news release from Stanford, said the retired three-star general will be a fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and serve in multiple roles — lecturing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in management and the Hoover Institution.
In addition to a 34 year career of military service, McMaster earned his doctorate in American history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996, Defense News noted.
McMaster retired from the Army in June — the last year of which he spent as adviser with the Trump administration before he was forced out in March and replaced by John Bolton.
The Wall Street Journal first reported McMaster’s return to Stanford.
“Our discourse about national security has become infected by this severe form of political polarization, and it’s regrettable because I do think some really excellent work has happened across the last year-and-a-half to help frame some of the most significant strategic challenges and to craft strategic approaches to advance and protect our interests,” McMaster told the Journal in his first interview since leaving the White House.
McMaster worked at Hoover in 2002 as a national security affairs fellow and then served as a visiting fellow from 2003 to 2017, the Journal reported.
The Journal reported McMaster — replaced by President Donald Trump after clashes with other top-ranking officials including Defense Secretary James Mattis and former White House strategist Stephen Bannon — plans to work on a new book about national security while he’s at Stanford.
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