Trump wants McMaster as adviser

washington - US President Trump Monday, Lieutenant General Herbert Raymond McMaster appointed his security adviser. The 54-year-old McMaster will succeed Michael Flynn, who had to leave last week because he had spoken and had lied about secretly with the Russian ambassador in Washington about the US economic sanctions.

Trump wants to make Keith Kellogg chief of staff of the National Security Council. The 72-year-old former general took Flynn's role as adviser in recent days where. The president is looking for in his team also a function for John Bolton, the US ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006.

McMaster is since 1984 the army has played a long series of functions. He took part in the Gulf War, commanded units in Iraq and Afghanistan and had a role in the War on Terror, as President Bush's military campaign dubbed after 9/11 against international terrorism in 2001.

On the other hand McMaster worked as a professor of military history. He studied and worked at the famous military academy West Point, graduated from the University of North Carolina and later worked at Stanford University. He currently sits on the board of the Army Capabilities Integration Center, a military institute that will include working on equipment, training systems and doctrine.

The general is widely appreciated as a military tactician and strategic thinker. But his appointment nevertheless comes as a surprise because he also is known as someone who does not hesitate to inform the authority of another discussion. In 2014, McMaster made it to the list of hundred most influential men of Time Magazine. He published in 1997, the critically acclaimed book Dereliction of Duty (default task), in which he criticized the US political and military leadership in the Vietnam War.

President Trump was last weekend in Florida working with the succession of Flynn. Admiral Robert Harward was Trump's first choice, but turned down the job. The retired general and CIA chief David Petraeus was here in the picture but fell off.