Max Boot

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Max Boot (born 1971, Moscow, Soviet Union) is an author and military historian noted for his support of a strong U.S. leadership role in the world. He is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, a weekly columnist for The Los Angeles Times and a regular contributor to other publications including the Financial Times and The New York Times. He is also a consultant to the U.S. military and a regular lecturer at U.S. military institutions such as the Army War College and the Command and General Staff College. He has previously worked for The Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor. While at the Wall Street Journal, Boot collaborated with Steve Milloy of JunkScience.com to write an editorial critical of EPA regulations. [1] In 2004, he was named by the World Affairs Councils of America one of “the 500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy.”

Boot earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991, and a master's degree in diplomatic history from Yale University in 1992.

Boot is a member of Benador Associates a neoconservative PR firm.

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Boot and his family emigrated to Los Angeles, United States in 1976. He is a hawk advocating American imperialism and American empire, benignly interpreted. As a hawk, he dwells on past U.S. failures to persist in various military enterprises. He faults Ronald Reagan for withdrawing from Lebanon in 1983, following the truck bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks. See History of Lebanon.

He faults George H.W. Bush for the failure to retain Afghanistan as a client state following Soviet withdrawal in 1989. During that war the U.S. covertly armed the mujahideen resistance forces with the aid of the Pakistani ISI. (See Soviet war in Afghanistan.) Boot dismisses the U.S. withdrawal as a "classic realpolitik policy," realpolitik being a term associated with Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft.

In a similar vein, he faults Bush the Elder for failing to depose Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq following the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Boot wrote that "Afghanistan and other troubled lands today cry out for the sort of enlightened foreign administration once provided" by the British Empire. As a series of successful U.S. colonial projects, Boot lists: Haiti (1915-1933), the Dominican Republic (1916-1924), Cuba (1899-1902, 1906-1909), the Philippines (1899-1935), as well as Germany and Japan.

See also: Neoconservatism in the United States.

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Bibliography

  • The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power (Basic Books, 2002), ISBN 046500721X
  • Out of Order: Arrogance, Corruption and Incompetence on the Bench (Basic Books, 1998), ISBN 0465053750
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