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The Murder of Yet Another Putin Critic
March 1, 2015Commentary
In 1934 Sergei Kirov, an old Bolshevik who had been head of the Party organization in Leningrad, was assassinated with a shot to the back. Most of his NKVD bodyguards had been mysteriously removed before the murder. Josef Stalin, the Soviet Union�s absolute dictator, expressed shock at the murder and promised to investigate personally.
Russian Federation Presidents and Chiefs of State
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February 23, 2015
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No Need to Declare War Against Our Current Enemy
February 19, 2015Hoover Institution
Congress is now debating President Obama�s proposed Authorization for the Use of Limited Military Force to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Yet the president�s request for this action from Congress comes more than six months after U.S. aircraft began bombing ISIS positions in Iraq and Syria, and even if passed it is merely an authorization for the use of force, not a full-fledged state of war, which Congress has not passed since World War II.
Wars and Warfare Congresses, Parliaments, National Legislatures
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February 12, 2015
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Obama's Anti-ISIS AUMF: A Classic Muddle
February 11, 2015
Yesterday I wrote �here we go again� with President Obama agonizing over another major foreign-policy decision�whether or not to arm Ukraine�even as our enemies push ahead with great determination and cunning. Today we are seeing yet another Obama MO: the tendency, once endless administration deliberations are finished, to produce a split-the-difference solution that doesn�t accomplish as much as it should.
Military Operations; Presidents and Chiefs of State
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February 10, 2015
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General Meeting ⁄ New York
Assessing the Surge In Iraq: Observations from the Ground
Speakers:
Stephen D. Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations, Max Boot, Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider:
Brian D. Williams, Anchor and Managing Editor, NBC Nightly News
May 9, 200712:15-2:00 p.m.
General Meeting
Town Hall Meeting: Foreign Policy and the Presidential Election
Presider:
Carla Anne Robbins, Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal
Speakers:
Max Boot, Senior Fellow, National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow and Director of Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations and Professor of International Affairs, School of Foreign Service and Government Department, Georgetown University, Peter Brookes, Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs and Director, Asian Studies Center, Heritage Foundation, Robert L. Gallucci, Dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Steven A. Cook, Next Generation Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Robert Lieber, Professor of Government and Foreign Service, Georgetown University
October 18, 2004
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This meeting is not for attribution.
General Meeting
War in Iraq: One Year Later
Presider:
Barton Gellman, National Correspondent, The Washington Post
Speakers:
Todd Purdum, Political Correspondent Washington Bureau, The New York Times, Max Boot, Olin Senior Fellow, National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Rick Atkinson, Author, In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat in Iraq
March 16, 2004
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General Meeting
Defining U.S. Foreign Policy: Is the United States a Rogue Nation?
Presider:
Christopher Makins, President, Atlantic Council of the United States
Speakers:
Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr., President, Economic Strategy Institute; Author, Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions, Max Boot, Olin Senior Fellow, National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
June 5, 2003
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Term Member Program Meeting
Term Member Annual Conference: Terrorism, the Middle East, and Iraq
Speaker:
Max Boot
February 20, 2003
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General Meeting
Iraq: The War Debate
Presider:
Leslie H. Gelb, President, Council on Foreign Relations
Speakers:
William Kristol, Editor, The Weekly Standard, Stephen M. Walt, Academic Dean and the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Max Boot, Olin Senior Fellow, National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
February 5, 2003
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February 4, 2015
536 items
ArticleAmerican Sniper, American Marines, Iraqi Army
February 2, 2015Hoover Institution
Clint Eastwood�s film American Sniper has become a popular if controversial sensation. Critics accuse it of glamorizing Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, while many have rushed to Kyle�s and the movie�s defense. But one aspect of the debate has gone largely unexamined: How historically accurate is the film?
United StatesConflict Assessment; Society and Culture
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January 28, 2015
535 items
Is Kobani the New Khe Sanh?
January 27, 2015Commentary
The Obama administration will be tempted to take a victory lap because of recent news that Kurdish militiamen have regained control of Kobani, a Syrian town near the border with Turkey. ISIS forces that had been attacking it for months have melted away. This is, to be sure, a nice achievement, but its wider significance is limited.
SyriaUnited States; Terrorist Organizations and Networks;
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January 22, 2015
Article
Jan 06, 2015
Tim Arango of the New York Times recounts the impact of Max Boot's Foreign Affairs article to soldiers at Camp Taji, Iraq.
Radio InterviewMax Boot Blasts Release of Senate ReportDec 09, 2014Video InterviewMax Boot on Small Wars
Oct 28, 2014
Washington simply doesn�t have the luxury of simply avoiding long wars against brutal insurgencies. Instead, it needs to figure out how to fight them better, argues Max Boot, Jeane Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, in the latest edition of Foreign Affairs. Boot recently sat down with Gideon Rose to discuss how.
Video InterviewGrowing Fears of a Coup in IraqAug 11, 2014
U.S. officials continue to pressure Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to step down. Max Boot from the Council on Foreign Relations joins to discuss.
Unconventional wars are our most pressing national security concern. They're also the most ancient form of war in the world. Max Boot on the lessons of insurgency we seem unable to learn.
In the new book Invisible Armies, author Max Boot traces the role of guerrilla warfare through history, starting in the Roman Empire all the way up to Afghanistan. He tells Steve Inskeep the American Revolution was the turning point in guerrilla warfare.
Max Boot is featured as CNN's Fareed Zakaria leads a conversation looking back at whether the war in Iraq was worth it.
Max Boot on Small Wars
Washington simply doesn�t have the luxury of simply avoiding long wars against brutal insurgencies. Instead, it needs to figure out how to fight them better, argues Max Boot, Jeane Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, in the latest edition of Foreign Affairs. Boot recently sat down with Gideon Rose to discuss how.
Growing Fears of a Coup in Iraq
U.S. officials continue to pressure Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to step down. Max Boot from the Council on Foreign Relations joins to discuss.
In the new book Invisible Armies, author Max Boot traces the role of guerrilla warfare through history, starting in the Roman Empire all the way up to Afghanistan. He tells Steve Inskeep the American Revolution was the turning point in guerrilla warfare.
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January 21, 2015
534 items
Obama Makes Clear: No Foreign-Policy Recalibration Coming
January 21, 2015Commentary
Listening to President Obama�s penultimate State of the Union address last night, I was more struck by what was missing rather than by what was included. The speech, naturally, featured a long wish list of domestic policy proposals (free community college, etc.) that have no chance of passing a Republican Congress.
United States Presidents and Chiefs of State
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January 13, 2015
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