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United States President Donald Trump has appointed Lieutenant General Herbert Raymond McMaster as his new national security adviser.
Mr Trump continued to make key appointments in unconventional ways, performing the announcement from a luxurious living room at his Palm Beach club Mar-a-Lago.
He had been looking for a replacement for Michael Flynn, who resigned in disgrace after lying to the White House about his conversations with Russia.
"He is highly respected by everybody in the military and we're very honoured to have him," Mr Trump said of General McMaster.
"He's a man of tremendous talent and tremendous experience."
General McMaster is a highly regarded military tactician and strategic thinker, but his selection surprised some observers who wondered how the General, who is known for questioning authority, would deal with a White House that has not welcomed criticism.
He wrote a book critical of US generals for not taking a tougher line with their political masters during the Vietnam War.
Retired Army Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, who had been Mr Trump's acting adviser, will now serve as the national security council chief of staff.
The President said John Bolton, a former US ambassador to the United Nations, would serve the administration in another capacity.
Mr Trump spent the weekend considering his options for replacing Mr Flynn.
His first choice, retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward, turned down the job last week.
The national security adviser is an independent aide to the president and does not require confirmation by the US Senate.
The role has varied from administration to administration, but the adviser attends National Security Council meetings along with the heads of the State Department, the Department of Defense and key security agencies.
A willingness to buck the system
General McMaster, 54, is a West Point graduate known as "HR" with a PhD in US history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He was listed as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in 2014, partly because of his willingness to buck the system.
A combat veteran, he gained renown in the first Gulf War — and was awarded a Silver Star — after he commanded a small troop of the US 2nd Army Cavalry Regiment that destroyed a much larger Iraqi Republican Guard force in 1991 in a place called 73 Easting, for its map coordinates, in what many consider the biggest tank battle since World War II.
As one fellow officer put it, referring to General Trump's inner circle of aides and speaking on condition of anonymity, the Trump White House "has its own Republican Guard, which may be harder for him to deal with than the Iraqis were".
The Iraqi Republican Guard was ousted dictator Saddam Hussein's elite military force.
General McMaster's fame grew after his 1997 book Dereliction of Duty criticised the country's military and political leadership for poor leadership during the Vietnam War.
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