Max Boot

New York

Columnist covering national security

Education: University of California at Berkeley, BA in history; Yale University, MA in history

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 columnist for The Washington Post. Max Boot is now writing a biography of Ronald Reagan for Norton/Liveright. His previous biography, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam (Norton/Liveright, 2018), was a New York Times bestseller and a finali
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Why liberals protesting cluster munitions for Ukraine are wrong

Kyiv needs all the help it can get to win the war.

July 11, 2023

Ukraine in NATO? My heart says yes. But my head says no.

The West can safeguard Ukraine even without NATO membership.

July 9, 2023

Don’t second-guess the Ukrainian counteroffensive. It’s just starting.

Instead of second-guessing the Ukrainian push, the West should be supporting it

June 29, 2023

What happened in Russia — and what happens next? Our columnists weigh in.

Yevgeniy Prigozhin's coup-that-wasn't has left the world wondering what happens next in Russia — and in Ukraine. The Post's columnists share their insights.

June 26, 2023

Putin finally learns the lesson all tyrants learn

The Wagner rebellion shows how Putin’s war is backfiring.

June 24, 2023

The GOP claims to be strong on defense. Tommy Tuberville shows otherwise.

A senator’s devotion to the culture wars imperils the ability of the United States to fight real wars.

June 19, 2023

If the United States can spy on China, why can’t China spy on the U.S.?

We shouldn’t let reports of a Chinese listening station derail efforts to improve relations.

June 12, 2023

The Ukrainian offensive is beginning. David Petraeus is optimistic.

The retired general says Ukraine has a chance to break the Russians.

June 9, 2023

Washington is sanctioning 12,000 entities. It’s backfiring.

Washington has sanctions on nearly 12,000 entities. Does the policy make sense?

June 5, 2023

What do the Ukrainian people think? Max Boot answered questions on his trip to Ukraine.

Max's Q&A with readers was at 12 p.m. ET on Friday, June 2. Read the transcript.

June 2, 2023