Max Boot

Max Boot is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His forthcoming book is “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam.”
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David Petraeus Would Be a Great Secretary of State

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Trump’s ‘America First’ Is the Twilight of American Exceptionalism

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Why a Trump Presidency Might Not Be as Awful as We Fear

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This Lifetime GOP Voter Is With Her

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Duterte’s Flip-Flop Into Bed With China Is a Disaster for the United States

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What the Hell Happened to My Republican Party?

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Donald Trump Isn’t Campaigning to Run a Democracy

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America Is Turning Into a Confederacy of Dunces

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Why Trump Is the Islamic State’s Dream Candidate

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It’s All Fun and Games, Until Someone Unleashes Death Squads

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USAID Should Become the Department of Nation-Building

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Department of Dirty Tricks

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Think Again: Neocons

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Whatever Happened to Preemption?

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