‘We Are Going to War’: H.R. McMaster Remembers 9/11
From the battlefield in Iraq to the White House Situation Room, the former national security adviser examines 25 years of American war, and how military gains became strategic self-defeat.
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Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster was on the phone with the Pentagon when the plane struck the building on September 11, 2001. “I thought, Okay, we are going to war,” he recalls. Twenty-five years after 9/11, McMaster joins Aaron MacLean to discuss the wars that followed. Drawing on his experience as a wartime commander and national security adviser, McM…
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