Max A. Boot is a Russian-born naturalized American author, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian. He currently serves as the Jeane J.
Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and is a regular contributor to The Washington Post. His career began in journalism, writing for The Christian Science Monitor and The Wall Street Journal in the 1990s. He has also contributed to The Weekly Standard, the Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times.