'''Max Boot''' (born September 12, 1969) is a [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] Russian-American author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, and [[military historian]].<ref name=los/> He once described his ideas as "American might to promote American ideals."<ref name=heck>{{cite news |first=Max |last=Boot |title=What the Heck Is a 'Neocon'? |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB104121045871745553 |work=[[OpinionJournal.com]] |publisher=The Wall Street Journal |date=December 30, 2002 |accessdate=2007-02-06 }}</ref> Boot worked as a writer and editor for ''[[Christian Science Monitor]]'' and then for ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' in the 1990s. He is now [[Jeane J. Kirkpatrick]] Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the [[Council on Foreign Relations]]. He has written for numerous publications such as ''[[The Weekly Standard]]'', ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'', and ''[[The New York Times]]'', and he has also authored books of military history.<ref name=cfr>[http://www.cfr.org/bios/5641/max_boot.html Max Boot]. [[Council on Foreign Relations]]. Accessed March 1, 2009.</ref> Boot's most recent book, titled ''Invisible Armies,'' which came out in 2013, is about the history of [[guerrilla warfare]].
==Personal life==
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==Political beliefs==
In general, Boot considers himself to be a "natural [[contrarian]]".<ref>http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people3/Boot/boot-con1.html</ref> He identifies as a [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]], once joking that "I grew up in the 1980s, when conservatism was cool".<ref name="heck">{{cite news |first=Max |last=Boot |title=What the Heck Is a 'Neocon'? |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB104121045871745553 |work=[[OpinionJournal.com]] |publisher=The Wall Street Journal |date=December 30, 2002 |accessdate=2017-12-28}}</ref> He is in favor of limited government at home and American leadership abroad. He strongly opposed Trump's [[Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016|presidential candidacy in 2016]]<ref>{{Cite |url=http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-boot-republicans-in-exile-20160508-story.html|title=The Republican Party is dead|last=Boot|first=Max|date=2016-05-08|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2016-07-20}}</ref> and has been highly critical of the Republican Party.<ref>{{Cite |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/01/opinion/how-the-stupid-party-created-donald-trump.html|title=How the stupid party created Donald Trump|last=Boot|first=Max|date=2016-08-01|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=2016-12-19}}</ref> Boot was critical of the nomination of [[Rex Tillerson]] to the position of [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]], believing him to be problematically pro-Russian, and subsequently called on Tillerson to resign.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/23/time-is-up-on-rex-tillerson/ |publisher=''[[Foreign Policy]]'' |quote=Having proved a failure at every aspect of being secretary of state, he should do the country a favor and resign. |first=Max |last=Boot |date=August 23, 2017 |title=Time Is Up on Rex Tillerson |access-date=August 25, 2017}}</ref>
In an opinion piece for ''[[Foreign Policy]]'' in September 2017, Max Boot outlines his views thusly: "I am socially liberal: I am pro-LGBTQ rights, pro-abortion rights, pro-immigration. I am fiscally conservative: I think we need to reduce the deficit and get entitlement spending under control. I am pro-environment: I think that climate change is a major threat that we need to address. I am pro-free trade: I think we should be concluding new trade treaties rather than pulling out of old ones. I am strong on defense: I think we need to beef up our military to cope with multiple enemies. And I am very much in favor of America acting as a world leader: I believe it is in our own self-interest to promote and defend freedom and free markets as we have been doing in one form or another since at least 1898."<ref>https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/09/20/i-would-vote-for-a-sane-donald-trump/</ref>
