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  3. H.R. McMaster
August 5, 2026
August 5, 2026

•Episode length: 1h 4m

American Enterprise Institute

H.R. McMaster

Episode length: 1h 4m

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Everyone knows the Warrior Poets get the headlines, but do Warrior Historians deserve the recognition? Do free societies produce better soldiers? How do leaders know when to be disagreeable? H.R. McMaster joins the guys to talk about the history of tanks, the dynamics of leadership and teamwork, and his reading list of American heroes.

  • James Webb — Fields of Fire
  • James R. McDonough — Platoon Leader: A Memoir of Command in Combat
  • Charles B. McDonald — Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II
  • Leo Tolstoy — The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
  • Michael Shaara —The Killer Angels
  • Anton Myrer — Once An Eagle
  • John Keegan — The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
  • Lewis Sorley — Thunderbolt: General Creighton Abrams and the Army of His Time
  • Carlo D'Este — Patton: Genius for War, A – The Definitive Portrait of the Complex and Misunderstood American Warrior
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•BSBen Sasse•CSChris Stirewalt

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