Max Boot

No President can achieve everything or please everyone.

— Max Boot

Increasingly I feel like a Jew, an immigrant, a Russian - anything but a normal, mainstream American.

— Max Boot

In 1964, the GOP ceased to be the party of Lincoln and became the party of Southern whites.

— Max Boot

Political paralysis and partisanship are sabotaging American power.

— Max Boot

I don't know if I can ever change the world, but at least I can change the oil in my car.

— Max Boot

Often the process of writing can feel like spitting into the ocean.

— Max Boot

Americans are in vital need of the instruction that historians can provide.

— Max Boot

Without U.S. troops, Afghanistan, like Iraq, could descend into chaos.

— Max Boot

There is little doubt that our society is changing rapidly, but one thing will never change as long as we remain a…

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Protests, such as those in favor of labor rights, women's suffrage, civil rights and gay rights, helped to make America as great…

— Max Boot

France has had socialist presidents on and off since the 1920s, and it remains a free country. Socialists have ruled in many…

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You simply can't understand the present if you don't understand the past. There is no more alarming case study of the consequences…

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At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.

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There has been an unspoken assumption among establishment Republicans that all they have to do is wait out Hurricane Trump and then…

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Republicans used to bash President Barack Obama for alienating American allies, but Trump is turning off our partners like no one ever…

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Unfortunately, history suggests that dictatorial regimes can withstand years, even decades, of economic sanctions.

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Well, a general danger of punditry is that there's very little incentive to change your position or admit error. If you reverse…

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For years, as a seller of real estate and star of reality TV, Donald Trump made a living wooing customers and viewers.…

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Anyone anywhere - as long as you live in a country that does not censor the Internet - can now read this…

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Once upon a time - in the days of Margaret Thatcher and John Major - I would have rejoiced in a Conservative…

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The 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, has not so far provoked the kind of anguished…

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Air superiority, which the United States has taken for granted since World War II, is no longer assured. And, without control of…

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In the 16th and 17th centuries, as many as 60,000 people were executed in Europe as suspected witches. But it would be…

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In some ways the most appalling thing of all, that Trump continues to question the fact of a very serious Russian attack…

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“It was not always the case, of course, that navies paid for themselves. In wartime, costs often exceeded revenues, and those deficits…

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I can actually approve of some of Donald Trump's North Korea policy, the sanctions, for example, doing things that other presidents would…

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I think, of the kind of erratic behavior that many of us feared once Trump came into office. And I think you're…

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“The blitzkrieg is one of the best-known examples of a “military technical revolution”—and one of the most misunderstood by the general public.…

— Max Boot

“The dominance of the man on horseback was challenged during the fourteenth century in what some historians call the infantry revolution. English…

— Max Boot

“There were few more unlikely candidates in 1611 for Great Power status than Sweden. Even with its satrapy of Finland, the total…

— Max Boot

Even getting a college degree does not guarantee a minimal knowledge of U.S. history.

— Max Boot

Every four years since 1988, I have voted for the Republican presidential candidate.

— Max Boot

I find contentment in the craft of writing and fulfillment in self-expression.

— Max Boot

Growing up in the 1980s, I remember when the GOP was the party of ideas. Now it's brain dead.

— Max Boot

I have been a Republican as long as I can remember.

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I saw America as a land of opportunity, not a bastion of racism or sexism.

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Protests are the very essence of America! It is a country founded in protest.

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People who sit for hours in a beach chair or an airplane seat without any reading material simply baffle me: What is…

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What's true for New York is true for most of the country: We are a long way removed from the double-digit interest…

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“a crucial element of English success was their commanders’ ability to learn on the fly, make adjustments, and attempt new tactics. The…

— Max Boot