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corruption, 59, 229–31, 259–68
Council of Europe, 123
Council on Foreign Relations Study Group on Space Weapons, 217–18
Counter-intelligence Field Activity (C1FA), 256–57
counternarcotics flights, 165
“counterspace operations,” 215–16
coups d’état, 20, 106–8, 250
Coyle, Philip, 210, 223, 227
Craig, Larry, 262
Crewdson, John, 128
crime, military bases and, 175–76, 178–93, 198, 206–7
Crisis and Leviathan (Higgs), 277
Cross, Suzanne, 66
cruise missiles, 218, 234
Cuba, 3, 19–20, 94, 96, 102–3, 105, 163. See also Guantanamo Bay
Cuidad del Este (Paraguay), 166–67
Cunningham, Randy “Duke,” 260–61
Curacao military base, 148, 165
current account deficits, 270–71
Curtis, John, 48, 52
Dahlgren, Hans, 128
Daily American (Italian newspaper), 106
Dakar military base (Senegal), 147–48
DalBello, Richard, 238
Daoud, Sardar Mohammed, 111
Darby, Joseph M., 22
Darnell, Daniel, 239
Darwinism, 76, 79
data mining, 251, 256–57
Davis, Mike, 78, 83
death squads, 121
deBlois, Bruce M., 215
decoys, 223–25, 228
Defense Appropriation bills, 149, 258–60, 264–66, 270, 276–77
defense budget, 9–10, 17, 115, 229–31, 260–61, 264, 276–77
Defense Contract Audit Agency, 230
defense contractors, 210, 212–15, 232, 242, 260–62, 264–65, 271, 274
Defense Department (DOD, Pentagon), 4, 9, 15, 19–21, 69, 102, 135, 200
budget of, 7–8, 10, 229–32, 264, 276–77, 275–78
corruption and, 260–61, 264–65
intelligence and, 94, 136, 256–57
Iraq and, 15, 47, 49–50, 99–100, 158, 160
military bases inventory of, 5–6, 138–41, 139
overseas bases and, 143–51, 155–56, 167–68, 171–72, 178, 201–4
Pax American and, 58
power of, 20–21, 71
space weaponry, missile defense and, 211–14, 218, 227–28, 238
torture and, 38, 44–45, 258
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), 26, 33, 44, 91, 99, 178
Defense Science Board Task Force on Strategic Communication (September 2004 report), 47
defense spending, 5, 9–10, 17, 115, 229–32, 260–62, 264–65, 271–78
“defense transformation” program, 143–45, 148–51, 195
DeLay, Tom, 261–63
Delta Force, 40
democracy
imperialism and, 55–56, 62, 70, 77, 88–89
threats to, in U.S., 9–14, 17–19, 21–22, 60, 249, 278–79
Democratic Party, 92, 255, 262
Denmark, 131
depleted-uranium ammunition, 197
deportation hearings, secret, 249
Depression, 271, 273–74
Der Monat (German newspaper), 106
desk murderers, 21–23, 45
detainees, 38, 249, 251, 266–67. See also prisoners of war
Detainee Treatment Act (2005), 258–59
Diamond, Larry, 158–59
dictatorship, 19, 152
possibility of, in U.S., 14, 267–69, 278
Diego Garcia (military base), 36, 124, 147
Diem, Ngo Dinh, 250
DINA. See Chilean Army Directorate of National Intelligence
Dinges, John, 108
Directorate of Intelligence (DI), 93–94, 101
Directorate of Operations (DO), 93, 96, 101, 114
Director of National Intelligence, CIA replaced by, 135
Disney World, 6
Djibouti (military base), 147, 166
Dobbs, Michael, 214
dollar, value of, 271
Dolman, Everett, 215–16
Domenici, Pete, 265
domestic surveillance, 94, 250–51, 254–57, 266
Dominican Republic, 94, 163
Donnelly, Thomas, 148
Doolittle, John, 261
Dora Farms compound bombing, 33
Dower, John, 76
Dratel, Joshua, 39
driving accidents, military bases and, 6, 174–75, 182, 190
drugs, 5, 77, 83, 110–11, 117, 126, 165, 167, 182
Duarte Frutos, Nicanor, 168
Duelfer, Charles, 99
dugong, 195
Dulles, Allen, 95, 136
Dulles, John Foster, 136
Dutch Empire, 279
Dyer, Reginald “Rex,” 79
DynCorp, 165
earmarks, 115, 229, 260, 262, 264–65
Earth Institute, 33
East Asia, 78, 81, 143, 178–79, 182, 199, 201, 207
Eastern Europe, 36, 157, 174
East Germany, 172
economy
defense spending and, 5, 8, 17, 138, 269–79
imperialism and, 77–78, 80–85
Ecuador, 94, 164–66, 169–70, 176
Ecuadoran Congress, 166
Eddie Bauer company, 263
Education Department, 263
Efron, Sonni, 15
Egypt, 9, 36, 74, 78, 87, 94, 112, 116, 122–125, 128–35
Ehmann, Amy, 155
Eichmann, Adolf, 21–22, 34
Eichmann in Jerusalem (Arendt), 21
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 18, 95, 103, 136, 216
elections
campaign contributions and, 242, 259, 261, 269
Founding Fathers and, 15–17
imperialism and, 88
of 2000, 143
of 2004, 8, 33, 101, 144, 199, 255, 261
Elkins, Caroline, 86
Ellsberg, Daniel, 246
EloyAlfaro Air Base (Ecuador), 165
El Salvador, 3, 112, 164–65
Encounter (British newspaper), 106
Endangered Species Act, 149
Energy Department, 7, 263, 276
Entebbe International Airport (military base), 148
environmental pollution, 6, 145, 149, 172–74, 194–95, 204
Equatorial Guinea, 148
Erato (mythic figure), 10
Essex, USS (amphibious assault ship), 198
Eucom, 61
eugenics, 76
euphemisms, 120–21
Euripides, 68
European Convention on Human Rights, 123
European Parliament, 123
European police authority, 131
European Space Agency, 235–37
European Union, 235
Everitt, Anthony, 56, 61–63, 65–67
Executive Orders
11905 (on assassinations), 250
13233 (on Presidential Records Act), 248
secret (on FISA), 255–57, 266
exoatmospheric kill vehicle (EKV), 222–28
“Exterminate All the Brutes” (Lindqvist), 76
extraconstitutional centers of power, 20–21
extraordinary renditions, 36, 38, 102, 104, 119–35, 152, 268
extraterritoriality, 172
Faisal II, king of Iraq, 46
Fallujah, 15, 29, 32, 33, 46
“false flag” agents, 106
Falwell, Jerry, 4
Farber, Dan, 252
Fast, Barbara, 40
Federal Aviation Administration, 125
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 37, 42–43, 104, 109, 121–23, 168, 246–47, 254
federal courts (judiciary branch), 15–16, 20, 60, 186, 246–47, 266–69
Federal Election Commission, 261
federalism, 16
Federalist Papers, 59
Federation of American Scientists, 18
Fein, Bruce, 250–51
Feinstein, Dianne, 149, 150
Feith, Douglas, 99–100, 144, 14
9
Feldman, Noah, 249, 259
Ferguson, Niall, 71, 74–75, 77, 79–87
Fifth Corps, 44
Fifth Air Force, 202
Financial Times, 71
First Armored Division, 141, 153
First Infantry Division, 141, 153
First Corps, 202
first-strike capability, 97–98
FISA court, 254–56
Fisk, Robert, 31, 49
Flanigan, Timothy, 38
Flynn, Michael, 165
Foley, Brian, 266, 267
Foner, Eric, 75, 76
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), U.N., 28
“force projection,” 6
Ford, Gerald, 246, 249–50
Foreign Affairs, 167
Foreign Assistance Act (1974), 102
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA, 1978), 254–56, 266
Foreign Operations bill (2004), 263–64
Forell.Paul, 128, 129
Forster, E. M., 80
Fort Benning (Georgia), 163
Fort Bragg (North Carolina), 128
Fort Carson (Colorado), 142
Fort Greely (Alaska), 210, 222
Fort Lewis (Washington State), 202
Forward Operation Sites (FOSs), 146–48, 153, 155, 159–60, 164
Founding Fathers, 15–16, 55, 59, 88–89, 267–68
Fourth Amendment, 254
Fourth Infantry Division, 162
Fox, Vicente, 164
Fox News, 23
Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, 167
France, 48, 54–55, 63, 73, 85, 148, 236, 279
Frankfurter, Felix, 253
Frankfurt International Airport, 156
Franklin, Benjamin, 15–16, 89
Franks, Tommy, 14–15, 30
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA, 1966, 1974), 42, 44, 245–48, 250
freedom. See also democracy
free market and, 82, 84–85
of religion, 152
“Free Major Brown” Web site, 187–88
free market, 82–85, 164
FreeRepublic.com Web site, 125–26
free trade, 77, 81–85
Frei, Eduardo, 105–6
French Foreign Legion, 147
Fried, Daniel, 153
Friedman, Thomas, 3, 80–84
From the Shadows (Gates), 90
Fukuchi Dam, 173
Fukuda.Yasuo, 183
Fukuoka High Court, 188
FuldaGap, 142
“full spectrum dominance,” 138
Furukawa, Teijiro, 193
Futenma Marine Corps Air Station, (Japan), 193–98, 204–6
Future of Freedom Foundation, 27
Gabe, Masaaki, 191, 205
Gabon, 148
Gaffney, Frank, Jr., 211–13
Galaxy IV satellite, 238–39
Galileo navigation system, 235–36
Gap, the, 263
Garfield, Richard, 28, 29
Garlasco, Marc, 33
Garmisch facility (Germany), 6, 155
Gamer, Jay, 50
Gates, Robert M., 90, 96, 110
Gaul, 63, 66, 74
General Dynamics, 262, 264
General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, The (Keynes), 271–72
Geneva Accords of 1988, 117
Geneva Conventions, 4–5, 8–9, 23, 25, 27, 36–37, 43–44
genocide, 29, 86
George III, king of Great Britain, 16
George Washington, USS (aircraft carrier), 202
Georgia (former Soviet state), 20, 152
geosynchronous or geostationary orbit (GEO) satellites, 237–39
German Social Democratic Party, 154
Germany, 14, 73, 85, 123, 141–43, 145, 149–50, 153–57, 174, 176, 178, 201, 269, 274
Nazi, 21–22, 121, 273
unification of, 157
Ghana, 148
“ghost detainees,” 124–25
Ghost Wars (Coll), 112
Gibbon, Edward, 55, 57, 67
Gibson, McGuire, 49
Gilman, Benjamin, 262
Gingrich, Newt, 212
Ginowan, Japan, 193–98
Girard, William S., 175–76, 181
Glina, Marsela, 132
global communications, 141
global Echelon eavesdropping system, 156
Global Hawk UAV, 233
globalization, 77, 80–85
Global Positioning System (GPS), 214, 223, 232–36
Global Posture Review (Integrated Global Presence and Basing Strategy), 143–45, 148–52, 154–57
Global Security Organization, 51, 160, 161
Global Strike Force, 209
Glonas navigation system, 235
God of Small Things, The (Roy), 80
Goldberg, Jeffrey, 167
Golove, David, 257–58
Gonzales, Alberto, 23, 33, 38, 44, 251
Goodman, Melvin A., 91
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 116
Gordon, Joy, 27–28
Gore, Al, 259
Goss, Porter J., 90–92, 100–102, 135
Government Accountability Office (GAO), 227, 277
GPS. See Global Positioning System
Gracchus, Tiberius, 66
Grafenwöhr training area (Germany), 155
Graham, Bradley, 160, 163
Graham, Lindsey, 262, 267
Graham, R. B. Cunninghame, 78
Graves, Robert, 69
Gray, John, 82
Great Britain, 16, 27, 28, 55, 100, 123, 140, 152, 163, 236, 240. See also British Empire
Great Leap Forward, 84
Great Transformation, The (Polanyi), 83
Greece, 3, 19, 94, 104, 114
ancient, 47, 63, 78
Greenberg, Karen, 39
Greenpeace, 195
Green Zone, 160–61
Gregson, Wallace C., 189
Grenada, 19, 163
Gronlund, Lisbeth, 227, 239
Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, 220–28
Guam, 20, 164, 204, 206
Guantanamo Bay (Cuba), 8, 34–35, 37, 40–45, 123–24, 181, 246, 266–67, 278
“Guantánamo Bay Express,” 127
Guantánamo (Rose) , 43
Guardian, 1, 49–50
Guatemala, 3, 94, 104, 112, 163
guerrilla wars, 94
Gulfstream jets (CIA), 125–28
Gulf War of 1991, 26–27, 47, 49–50, 163, 227
Gumbel, Andrew, 275
habeas corpus, 186, 244, 266
Habermas, Jiirgen, 272
Habiger, Eugene, 210
Haditha massacre, 29
Hadley, Stephen J., 92
Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property (1954), 50
Haig, Alexander M., 19
Haiti, 94
Haldeman, Bob, 92
Hall, Keith, 215
Halliburton Corp., 7, 140
Hailidav, Denis, 29
Hamas, 167
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 267
Hamilton, Alexander, 16, 59
Hamilton, Edith, 243–44
Hammer, Joshua, 159, 160
Hannibal, 58
Hart, Howard, 111–12
Hartford, USS (nuclear submarine), 154
Hartung, William D., 212, 230
Harvard School of Public Health, report of May 1991, 27
Hashimoto, Ryutaro, 181, 194
Hayashida, Soichi, 184
Hayden, Michael, 92, 135
Haynes, William J., 38
Hazar Qadam, civilian deaths at, 31
Health and Human Services Department, 263
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 76, 78
Heat and Dust (Jhabvala), 80
Heaven’s Command (Morris), 54
Hecksher, Henry, 106–7
Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin, 113, 117–18
Hellfire missile, 21
Helms, Richard, 92, 95–97, 104–7
Henriques, Diana B., 146
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Herbert, Bob, 268
Herodotus, 57
Hersh, Seymour, 37, 40
Hezbollah, 167
Higgs, Robert, 277
high value targets (HVTs), 32–33
Hill, James, 167
Hindu-Muslim conflict, 87–88
Hirohito, emperor of Japan, 201
Hispanic magazine, 44
Historia Universal de la Destruction de los Libras (Marquez), 49
Histories (Herodotus), 57
History of Rome (Livy), 57–58
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Gibbon), 55
Hitchens, Theresa, 215, 239, 240
Hitler, Adolf, 79, 273
Holland, Tom, 54, 57–60, 62, 64–65, 67
Homeland Security Department, 276
Honduras, 164–65, 176
Honeywell, 262
Hoover, J. Edgar, 247
Hornberger, Jacob, 27
Hosenball, Mark, 125
Housing and Urban Development Department, 263
“How Not to Catch a Terrorist” (Scheuer letter) , 99
Hubble Telescope, 218, 237
Hughes, Harold E., 103
Hughes-Ryan Act (1974), 102–3
“Humane Treatemnt of al-Qaeda and Taliban Detainees” (Yoo memorandum), 36–37
humanitarian imperialism, 73
Human Rights First, 259
Human Rights Watch, 124
Hungary, 94
Hunter, Duncan, 260–62
Huntington, Stuart A., 40–41
Huntsville, Alabama, 232
Hussein, king of Jordan, 94
Hussein, Saddam, 26–28, 32–33, 52, 87, 98–101, 143, 157, 160–61, 163, 214, 232
Hutchison, Kay Bailey, 149–50, 186
Hypervelocity Rod Bundles, 209
I, Claudius (Graves), 69
Ibrahim, Izzat, 32
ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles), 218, 220–23, 226–28, 231
Russian Topol-M, 228–29
Soviet SS-9, 97–98
ideology, 82
“of extermination,” 76
Ignatieff, Michael, 73–74
Iha, Yoichi, 196
“illegal combatants,” 37
illegal imprisonment, 8
illegal orders, obedience to, 269
impeachment powers, 16
Imperial Hubris (Scheuer), 99
imperialism. See also American empire; British Empire
administrative massacres and, 75
economic justification for, 77–78, 80–85
racial justification for, 75–78
Roman Republic destroyed by, 55, 59–60, 63–67, 70
imperial presidency. See presidential power
Inamine, Keiichi, 174, 181–83, 186, 189–91, 198
Incan civilization, 76
Incirlik Air Base (Turkey), 156
Independent (London), 31, 49, 275
India, 71–72, 77–84, 87–88, 116, 148, 236, 270, 278
Indian Congress Party, 88
Indian Muslim League, 88
Indian Mutiny, 81
Indochina, 85
Indonesia, 3, 19, 94, 104, 147
Integrated Global Presence and Basing Strategy. See Global Posture Review