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Max Boot

Max Boot

Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the author of the forthcoming book The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam (Liveright, 2018).

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I confess that I don’t usually read the editorials in the New York Times. They tend to be full of high-minded imprecations to observe liberal...

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It may not be worth the billions in dues that we pay, but the United Nations does perform a few useful functions, among them producing...

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In the midst of the usual catastrophes, there is, finally, a bit of good news from Iraq. As a Los Angeles Times headline on Monday...

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One of the most common arguments employed by those who argue for a rapid drawdown of U.S. force in Iraq is that we don’t need...

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During the cold war, the American public often recoiled from the possibility that the Soviet Union might be behind some outrage too horrific to ignore....

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Good news from Iran. The Associated Press reports that “Iranians smashed shop windows and set fire to a dozen gas stations in the capital Wednesday,...

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Senator Richard Lugar is winning encomia from all the predictable quarters—e.g., Joe Conason in the New York Observer—for his supposed wisdom and independence in declaring...

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Readers of contentions interested in learning more about current military operations in Iraq than what they get from the headlines (which invariably focus on casualties,...

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Dissecting and analyzing what passes for news in the New York Times can be a full-time job. (The estimable Hilton Kramer used to do precisely...

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If you ask the average American what life is like for our troops in Iraq, the answer you get would probably be "a living hell."...

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It seems fairly certain that the Army will expand over the next few years. The only question is by how much. Secretary of Defense Robert...

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The recent spate of appointments of admirals to top “joint” jobs within the U.S. armed forces is, so to speak, making waves within the military....