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• Please use the drop down menu to select a certain speaker. • The Honorable Ed Perlmutter • The Honorable Jim Leach • Christine Brennan • Helen Thorpe • Jim Wallis • Richard Reeves • Doug Price • Steve Farber • James Hackett • Marty Meehan • T.R. Reid • The Honorable Michael Bennett • The Honorable Alan Bersin • Gretchen Peters • Lew Daly • Laura Flanders • Christine Brennan • Craig Mullaney • Dr. William E. Spriggs • Roy Blount Jr. • The Honorable Mitch Morrissey • The Honorable Ken Salazar • Dr. William R. Brody • A Special Luncheon Honoring Senator George McGovern for a Lifetime of Service to America • The Honorable Gary Hart • Red Cavaney • Dick Flavin • Fred Krupp • The Honorable Mary Peters • His Excellency Pierre Vimont • The Rt. Reverend John Bryson Chane • Walter Russell Mead • Branch Rickey III • Richard Reeves • Dick and Dottie Lamm • Tim Kurkjian • Naomi Wolf • The Honorable Diana DeGette • The Honorable Bill Ritter • Frank Deford • His Excellency Flavio Espinal • Dr. Marion Nestle • The Honorable Troy Eid • Dr. Harlan Kenneth Ullman • The Honorable Kathleen Kennedy Townsend • The Honorable Wellington Webb • James Quigley • John Hofmeister • The Honorable Ken Adelman • Ms. Lynn Sherr • The Honorable David Walker • Max Boot • Dr. J. Edward Hill • Kitty Dukakis • The Honorable Ben Barnes • James Fallows Wednesday, July 19, 2006 • Bonnie McElveen-Hunter Thursday, June 15, 2006 • 7th District Colorado Democratic Congressional Candidates Friday, May 19, 2006 • Rick Reilly Thursday, April 13, 2006 • The Honorable Robert S. Mueller III Wednesday, March 15, 2006 • Colonel Nathan Sassaman Thursday, February 23, 2006 • The Honorable George McGovern • Gary Smith Back to past speaker page... Wednesday, November 15, 2006 The Denver Forum Proudly Presents: Max Boot -- A Fellow of The Council on Foreign Relations Author of and Speaking on: "War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today" 12-Noon Luncheon Oxford Hotel 1600 17th Street Sage Room Cost: $30 per person Phone Reservations: 303-832-9030 Corporate Event Sponsor: Max Boot Max Boot is a Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He is also a weekly foreign-affairs columnist for the Los Angeles Times, a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, and a regular contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, and many other publications. In 2004, he was named by the World Affairs Councils of America one of “the 500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy.” His last book, "The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power"(Basic Books) was selected as one of the best books of 2002 by The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Christian Science Monitor. It also won the 2003 General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award, given annually by the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation for the best nonfiction book pertaining to Marine Corps history. He is now completing his next book, "War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today," which will be published in October 2006 by Gotham Books, an imprint of Penguin (USA). Boot is a frequent public speaker and guest on radio and television news programs, both at home and abroad. He has lectured at many military institutions, including the Army and Navy War Colleges, the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School, the Army Command and General Staff College, Marine Corps University, West Point, and the Naval Academy. He is a member of the U.S. Joint Forces Command Transformation Advisory Group. Before joining the Council in 2002, Boot spent eight years as a writer and editor at The Wall Street Journal, the last five years as editorial features editor. From 1992 to 1994 he was an editor and writer at The Christian Science Monitor. Boot holds a bachelor’s degree in history, with high honors, from the University of California, Berkeley (1991), and a master’s degree in history from Yale University (1992). He grew up in Los Angeles and now lives with his family in the New York area.