Trump had never warmed to McMaster, finding the three-star army lieutenant-general and PhD military history scholar hectoring and stiff. WASHINGTON—In his second move in a week to put a military hawk in his inner circle, U.S. President Donald Trump has replaced national security adviser H.R. McMaster with John Bolton, one of the country’s most controversial advocates of the aggressive use of U.S. force. Other than Flynn’s time in the post, it was the shortest for any national security adviser since the Reagan administration. Hiring him as the president’s top national security adviser is an invitation to war, perhaps nuclear war.

Source: thestar March 22, 2018 22:59 UTC