Scott Taylor, the editor and publisher of military magazine Esprit de Corps, believes President Donald Trump has made a good decision picking Lt. General H.R. McMaster to replace Mike Flynn as National Security Advisor.

Taylor, a war correspondent who has covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, the former Yugoslavia, Libya, and the Western Sahara, says McMaster brings a broad depth of knowledge to the job.

Taylor met McMaster after being kidnapped and held by Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists in northern Iraq while reporting on the US invasion in 2004. Held for 5 days, Taylor was brutally tortured before being released—at the time, one of the only Western hostages to have ever been released by Al-Qaeda.

McMaster asked Taylor to address American troops under his command following Taylor’s release, and the two have been in regular contact since.