Max Boot (born 1969 in Moscow) is a American author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian. He has been a prominent advocate for an actively engaged defense and foreign policy. He once described his ideas as "American might to promote American ideals" throughout the world. He self-identifies as a political conservative, once joking that "I grew up in the 1980s, when conservatism was cool". Boot worked as a writer and editor f...
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Max Boot (born 1969 in Moscow) is a American author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian. He has been a prominent advocate for an actively engaged defense and foreign policy. He once described his ideas as "American might to promote American ideals" throughout the world. He self-identifies as a political conservative, once joking that "I grew up in the 1980s, when conservatism was cool". Boot worked as a writer and editor for Christian Science Monitor and then for The Wall Street Journal in the 1990s. He is now a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has written for numerous publications such as The Weekly Standard, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times.
Boot was born in 1969 in Moscow. His parents, both Russian Jews, later emigrated from the Soviet Union to Los Angeles, where he was raised. 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...
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