Max Boot is one of America's leading military historians and foreign-policy analysts. The Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow in national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, Max Boot is also a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and the Los Angeles Times, a blogger for Commentary, and a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and many other publications. The author of two-widely acclaimed books of military history, he is now completing a history of guerrilla warfare and terrorism. Max Boot's books have been assigned reading by the military services, and he has lectured widely at military schools. Max Boot has also advised military commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was a senior foreign policy adviser to the McCain campaign in 2007-2008 and a defense policy adviser to the Romney campaign in 2011-2012.

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"A master historian" -- New York Times

"A penetrating writer and thinker" -- Wall Street Journal

"Not only an excellent historian, but also an excellent writer" 
-- Philadelphia Inquirer

"One of the 500 most influential Americans in foreign policy" 
-- World Affairs Councils