A complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages.

CFR's Max Boot foresees a great deal of future American involvement in Haiti, but only with a strategic justification.

CFR experts offer their analysis of President George W. Bush's final State of the Union address.

“America’s early lead in the Information Revolution can easily be lost—it may be lost already—if it does not stay at the forefront of military developments,” warns Senior Fellow for National Security Studies Max Boot in his latest book, War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History.

Two CFR experts on the war, Max Boot, senior fellow for national security studies, and Steven Simon, senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies, debate whether the surge has put Iraq on the path to success.

In light of the terrorist attack at the 2013 Boston Marathon, Max Boot writes, "Keep calm and carry on."

Max Boot writes about Afghanistan's upcoming presidential election.

Max Boot reflects on the tenth-anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Max Boot argues that substantial withdrawals of American military personnel from Afghanistan ignore the reality of the situation.

A precipitous drawdown to 6,000 troops in Afghanistan after 2014 would cripple the U.S. counterterrorism mission and Afghan security forces, vastly increasing the risk of a Taliban takeover, says Max Boot.

Max Boot says the U.S. intelligence community already suffers from a propensity to put quantity over quality.

Max Boot says David Petraeus's intellectualism was crucial to the U.S. military. Now the nation loses his skills.

Max Boot says Obama repeated Bush's mistake, and the power vacuum in Libya has now been filled by jihadists.

Michael Scott Doran and Max Boot lay out five reasons for why the United States should intervene in Syria, arguing that President Obama is forgoing his "lead from behind" approach where it would benefit the United States the most.

Max Boot says public apathy isn't necessarily fatal for the war effort. It could even provide the opportunity to finally get it "right."

Max Boot says the Middle East remains in turmoil. The U.S. should boost its air and naval assets in Asia but leave the other military branches free to focus on other regions.

Max Boot argues that the United States is sending a signal of weakness over the Scarborough Shoal.