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Jan 9, 2018 · Max Boot’s biography of CIA operative Edward Lansdale shows us that it didn’t necessarily have to turn out this way. Lansdale, AKA “the T.E. Lawrence of Asia,” had favored a “hearts and minds” approach in adversarial political landscapes, eschewing pure militarism as a panacea in global policy by introducing social and economic ...
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Mar 11, 2014 · Max Boot challenges those assumptions with example after example of wars waged by fiat of executive rather than declarations of war by congress of the people. Oddly, the author's conclusion is that overall this is a good trend that should be continued and encouraged once it has been acknowledged.
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Max Boot, historian and foreign-policy analyst, is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a columnist for the Washington Post. His New York Times bestseller The Road Not Taken was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
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Jan 9, 2018 · Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam. By Max Boot. Illustrated. 715 pp. Liveright. $35. Could it have turned out differently? Even before the guns fell silent in Vietnam, Americans ...
May 6, 2024 · Weapons of War: The Race Between Russia and Ukraine. After a shamefully long delay, the U.S. Congress passed legislation that includes $61 billion for Ukraine on Tuesday, only days after CIA Director Bill Burns warned that Ukraine was in danger of “losing” the war this year without U.S. assistance. This aid should help fill critical ...
Max Boot is the author of the award-winning The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power, which was selected as a 2002 Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. A senior fellow in national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a weekly ...
New York. Max Boot is a historian, best-selling author 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. He is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a ...
