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Max Boot

Max Boot

Max Boot is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a regular contributor to Commentary. He is completing The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Experience in Vietnam.

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Iran

On Sunday, three cruise missiles were fired from the Houthi-controlled coast of Yemen at the USS Mason, an American destroyer in international waters in the...
OSS

All but forgotten today, the Office of Strategic Services was America’s first civilian intelligence agency. Hastily organized after the start of World War II by...
Yemen

On Sunday night, as Americans were transfixed by the spectacle of the second presidential debate, events occurred off the coast of Yemen that remind us...
Vladimir Putin

Almost forgotten now amid the justifiable uproar over the Donald Trump-Billy Bush tape was another significant development that occurred on Friday: The Director of National...
referenda

I got to California on Sunday, the very same day that the world was stunned by the news that Colombia's voters had by the tiniest...
Colombia

First the victory of Brexit and now the defeat of the Colombian peace deal: The world keeps getting shocked by the outcome of pivotal referenda....
Joakim Noah

Back in 1933, the Oxford Union provoked a furor when its member approved a resolution stating that "this House will in no circumstances fight for...
congress

If you want to know why so many people hate Congress, look at the way it has handled the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act...
Vladimir Putin

It's unlikely to happen, but if there is any justice in this world, Vladimir Putin will someday have to answer for his crimes. He has...
Edward Snowden

The Kremlin thinks everyone should see Oliver Stone's adulatory bio-pic Snowden. “[It has] a brilliant script,” said Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, “and, what is most...
terrorism

Based on the spate of recent terrorist attacks in the United States, it's easy to conclude that the FBI is incompetent. After all, the FBI...