National Review Institute invites you to a special webinar featuring Former National Security Advisor of the United States John Hillen in conversation with Former National Security Advisor of the United States, H. R. McMaster, on his National Review cover story titled,
“Preserving the Warrior Ethos.”

This in-depth essay, which will appear in the November 15th issue, describes the importance of the American people understanding war and warriors. McMaster writes that “In democracies, if citizens do not understand war or are unsympathetic to the warrior ethos, it will become difficult to maintain the requirements of military effectiveness and to recruit the best young people into military service. The warrior ethos is what makes combat units effective. And because it is foundational to norms involving professional ethics, discipline, and discrimination in the use of force, the warrior ethos is essential to making war less inhumane.”

Hillen and McMaster have known each other as friends and colleagues in arms for over 30 years. In the late 1980’s, then Lieutenant Hillen served under the command of then Captain McMaster in the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Germany and fought alongside him in the Battle of the 73 Easting in Operation Desert Storm. They always stayed in close contact and reconnected again in a war zone in 2006 when then Assistant Secretary of State Hillen visited then Colonel McMaster during his celebrated command of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in its fight against Iraqi insurgents in Tal Afar, Iraq.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS

H. R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.  He is also the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.  He was the 26th assistant to the president for National Security Affairs. Upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1984, McMaster served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army for thirty-four years before retiring as a Lieutenant General in June 2018.

John Hillen is a member of the NR, Inc. Board of Directors and is an award-winning CEO and leadership expert, former Assistant Secretary of State, public intellectual, decorated combat veteran, and popular business-school professor. He served for eight years as a trustee of Hampden-Sydney College, received the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Medallion from Hampden-Sydney College in 2016, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the college in 2019.