Max Boot 
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SOURCE: Perspectives
3/7/19
What's Behind the Lamentations Over History?
by James Grossman
Max Boot’s questions imply change over time. But we can’t know why something has declined if we don’t know what conditions have changed.
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SOURCE: History Headlines
2/20/19
A quick response to Max Boot’s critique of historians
by Glenn David Brasher
Aren’t retention and anti-intellectualism the real problems?
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SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
2/20/19
Max Boot’s Screed Against Historians
by John Fea
Boot is the latest public intellectual to chide academic historians for failing to speak to public audiences.
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2/27/19
UPDATED: What Historians are Saying: In Response to Max Boot's Op Ed on Historians
Max Boot published an article saying historians are not engaged enough with the public. Here's how historians reacted.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
12-23-2018
Max Boot the victim of a fake headline apparently concocted by QAnon, the rightwing conspiracy pro-Trump troll
by Max Boot
A photoshopped headline made it seem that Boot had changed his opinion about troops in Syria.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
11-5-18
I was a refugee. I know Trump is wrong.
by Max Boot
Historian Max Boot cites facts and his own experience in repudiating Trump’s view of refugees.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
10-24-18
Max Boot: Trump finally gets something right
by Max Boot
The longtime critic says Trump was right to withdraw from the INF Treaty.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
7-24-18
Max Boot says flatly that without the Russians, Trump wouldn’t have won
"Russian disinformation wasn’t the only factor in the outcome and was probably less important in the end than FBI Director James B. Comey’s announcement 11 days before the election that he was reopening the Clinton email investigation.” But it mattered.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
7-20-18
Max Boot: This conservative would take Obama back in a nanosecond
by Max Boot
"How I miss Barack Obama."
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SOURCE: Foreign Policy
12-27-17
Max Boot: 2017 Was the Year I Learned About My White Privilege
by Max Boot
"I used to be a smart-alecky conservative who scoffed at 'political correctness.' The Trump era has opened my eyes.”
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SOURCE: Foreign Policy
12-5-17
Max Boot says Donald Trump Is Guilty
by Max Boot
"The only remaining question is what exactly he’s guilty of.”
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SOURCE: Foreign Policy
10-19-17
Max Boot is done with the GOP
by Max Boot
"I am done, done, done with the GOP after more than 30 years as a loyal Republican.”
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SOURCE: Fox News
7-12-17
Max Boot goes at it with Fox News host Tucker Carlson
Their Russia discussion goes off the rails: "You are ridiculous."
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SOURCE: Foreign Policy
6-16-17
Max Boot Says "Donald Trump Is Proving Too Stupid to Be President"
by Max Boot
A smart person wouldn't act like he's acting, says Boot.
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SOURCE: Commentary
5-31-17
Max Boot calls on the Pentagon to drop Confederate names of military installations
by Max Boot
"Bad history begets bad politics.”
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SOURCE: WSJ
7-2-13
Max Boot: What the Snowden Acolytes Won't Tell You
Max Boot is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of "Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present" (Liveright, 2013).'The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe."That quip from Tom Wolfe is worth savoring as the U.S. prepares to celebrate the Fourth of July—and as overheated rhetoric emanates from fans of Edward Snowden, the proud thief of American secrets. Even supporters, like Sen. Rand Paul, who express discomfort with how he fled to China and Russia, nevertheless applaud Mr. Snowden for alerting Americans to a supposedly dangerous infringement of liberty from the government's monitoring of electronic communications. Mr. Snowden's more extreme acolytes credit him with stopping the rise of a new tyranny in Washington.
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SOURCE: WSJ
1-21-13
John Nagl: Review of Max Boot's "Invisible Armies"
Mr. Nagl, a retired Army officer, is the author of "Learning to Eat Soup With a Knife" and helped write "The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual."In 2003, I deployed to Anbar Province in Iraq with my armored battalion to conduct counterinsurgency operations. I had spent nearly a decade studying the subject academically, and my reading had convinced me that counterinsurgency was the hardest kind of war, much more intellectually and emotionally difficult than the tank warfare I had seen in Iraq in 1991. Even so, I was unprepared for the blind-man's-bluff challenge of fighting an enemy I could rarely see. I would have been on firmer ground if I had read Max Boot's "Invisible Armies" before I had deployed to Iraq. The prolific journalist and military historian has taken on no less a task than presenting the "epic history of guerrilla warfare from ancient times to the present."...
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