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 also a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and the Los Angeles Times, as well as a regular contributor to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Commentary, and other publications. (His articles are at www.maxboot.net.) 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 with his family in the New York area.
Recent Blog Posts
- A Lieutenant’s Unfounded Accusations, Feb 22 2012
- Afghan Security Forces Cuts Likely to be “Catastrophic,” Warns General, Feb 20 2012
- Obama’s Egyptian Hostage Crisis, Feb 19 2012
- The Myth About Our “Pivot to the Pacific”, Feb 17 2012
- Congress Must Act Now on Defense Budget, Feb 17 2012
- Caution Urged About Excessive Reliance on SOCOM, Feb 15 2012
- Self-Defeating, But Dangerous Terror Acts, Feb 14 2012
- Without Regime Change, Foreign Jihadists Will Flock to Syria, Feb 13 2012
- Calls for Action on Syria Grow, Feb 10 2012
- Time to Target Insurgents in Pakistan, Feb 09 2012
