WASHINGTON (TIP): Readers of The Indian Panorama will recall the news we published last week that President Trump had made up his mind to give marching orders to his national security adviser H.R. McMaster. And we have been proved right, as Trump ousted McMaster who is to be succeeded by John Bolton, a former ambassador.

The president announced the news in a tweet on Thursday, March 22, saying that Bolton would take the job starting April 9, making him Trump’s third national security adviser in the first 14 months of his presidency. In dismissing McMaster from the job, Trump praised the Army general for his “outstanding work” and said he would “always remain his friend.”

Bolton, 69, served in the George W. Bush administration in a key arms-control job. Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell said he was strongly encouraged to take Bolton by Vice President Richard B. Cheney, who shared Bolton’s belief in American military power.

On March 13, Trump had fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and signaled in recent days that a shake-up at the top levels of his administration was not over.

“I’m really at a point where we’re getting very close to having the Cabinet and other things that I want,” Trump told reporters after Tillerson was fired.