Edited sentence: Award, given annually by the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation for the best nonfiction book pertaining to Marine Corps history.Boot earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991, and a master's degree in diplomatic history from Yale University in 1992.Greene Jr.He has previously worked for The Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor.He is a senior fellow in national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, a weekly foreign-affairs columnist for The Los Angeles Times and a regular contributor to other publications including the Financial Times and The New York Times.He is also a consultant to the U.His new book, "War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today" (Gotham Books), has been hailed by Publishers’ Weekly as “a well-paced, insightful narrative.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.It also won the 2003 General Wallace M.Max Boot is an author and military historian noted for his support of a strong U.leadership role in the world.military and a regular lecturer at U.military institutions such as the Army War College and the Command and General Staff College.” His previous 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