Max Boot is an author, military historian, and foreign-policy analyst who has been called one of the “world’s leading authorities on armed conflict” by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. The Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow in national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, he is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam. His previous books were widely acclaimed and include The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power; War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today; and Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present. He has been called “a master historian” by the New York Times and a “a penetrating writer and thinker” by the Wall Street Journal. |
