川普任命軍事戰略家爲國家安全顧問

U.S. President Donald Trump named a new national security adviser Monday, picking Army Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, a military strategist who has spent his entire career in the U.S. armed forces.

Trump called the 54-year-old McMaster "a man of tremendous talent and tremendous experience."

The president, making the announcement from his Florida retreat Mar-a-Lago along the Atlantic Ocean, said that retired Army Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, who had been his acting adviser, will now serve as chief of staff of the National Security Council.

McMaster is currently director of the Army's Capabilities Integration Center, an Army agency tasked with integrating "war-fighting capabilities into the force" and with other government agencies. Trump selected him over at least three other contenders, including Kellogg.

McMaster will replace Michael Flynn, the retired Army general Trump fired a week ago after just 24 days on the job at the start of Trump's assumption of power in Washington. The new president said last week it was unacceptable to him that Flynn lied to Vice President Mike Pence about contacts he had with the Russian ambassador to Washington in the weeks before Trump was inaugurated a month ago.

McMaster is a much-decorated soldier. He won a Silver Star early in his Army career for leading U.S. troops in their destruction of 80 Iraqi Republican Guard tanks, without U.S. losses, in a battle against Saddam Hussein's forces during their 1991 invasion of Kuwait. McMaster has held numerous key Army postings over the last 25 years. Three years ago, Time magazine put him on its list of the 100 most influential people in the world, calling him "the architect of the future U.S. Army."美國總統川普星期一任命陸軍中將麥克馬斯特爲新的國家安全顧問。這名軍事戰略家的整個職業生涯都是在美國武裝部隊渡過的。

川普稱54歲的麥克馬斯特是“一個極有天賦和經驗豐富的人”。
川普總統是在他位於佛羅里達州大西洋岸邊的度假莊園宣佈這一任命的。他還提出，一直擔任代理顧問的退休陸軍中將凱洛格將擔任國家安全委員會總參謀長。

麥克馬斯特目前是陸軍能力整合中心的指揮，這是一個陸軍機構，負責將“作戰能力納入部隊”和其他政府機構。川普在包括凱洛格在內的至少另外三名候選人中選定麥克馬斯特。

麥克馬斯特將取代一週前辭職的邁克爾·弗林。弗林在川普政府接掌華盛頓的工作後只擔任了24天的國家安全顧問。川普總統上週說，弗林沒有如實向副總裁彭斯彙報他在川普一個月前就職之前的幾個星期裏與俄羅斯駐美大使的聯繫，這是不可接受的。

麥克馬斯特在軍隊生涯中多次獲獎，包括早年獲得陸軍部隊銀星獎章。在1991年伊拉克入侵科威特期間，麥克馬斯特領導美軍部隊在與薩達姆侯賽因的部隊進行的戰鬥中摧毀了80輛伊拉克共和國衛隊的坦克，而美軍沒有損失。過去25年來麥克馬斯特擔任過軍中許多關鍵職位。三年前，美國“時代”週刊將他列入世界上最有影響力的100名人物名單，稱他爲“未來美軍的設計師”。