Max Boot
Max Boot is a leading military historian and foreign-policy analyst. The Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, he is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller "Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present." His earlier books include "War Made New: Technology, Warfare and the Course of History, 1500 to Today" and "The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power." Boot holds a bachelor's degree in history, with high honors, from the University of California, Berkeley (1991), and a master's degree in history from Yale University (1992). He was born in Russia, grew up in Los Angeles, and now lives in the New York area.
Recent Blog Posts
- Can Obama Learn to Punish Tyrants Instead of Rewarding Them?, Dec 19 2014
- Yes, It’s Time to Lift the Cuban Embargo, Dec 17 2014
- Pakistan: Incubator of Evil, Dec 16 2014
- Sydney Siege and Monitoring Extremists, Dec 15 2014
- Abandoning the Free Syrian Army, Dec 14 2014
- Max Boot: Nothing Else Like COMMENTARY, Dec 11 2014
- The “Torture Report” and American Values, Dec 10 2014
- The CIA, Interrogation, and Feinstein’s Parting Shot, Dec 09 2014
- Why Is Military Morale Dropping?, Dec 08 2014
- A Digital Milestone, Dec 08 2014