Dialogue: Max Boot and Geoffrey Wheatcroft will be posting comments throughout the week on the Iraq and American foreign policy.

(Paul Reynolds and Max Boot have made similar observations.)

Max Boot says of Moltke in his War Made New:

"You can't incite people and then do nothing to help them," said Max Boot, a conservative commentator at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Max Boot (born September 12, 1969) is a Russian-born American author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian.

Max Boot (military historian, and foreign policy expert)

"A classic Washington gaffe, one where you tell the truth inadvertently," said Max Boot, a conservative scholar and columnist.

"He's been all over the place on foreign policy," Max Boot, a conservative foreign policy expert, said.

In the Book Review Max Boot called this "a work of impressive literary craftsmanship."

Max Boot - Military historian, columnist, author.