Guardian
Guatemala
coup of 1954
Gulf War (1991)
Gun Owners of America
Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property (1954)
Haig, Alexander
Halliburton Corporation
Handbook of the Law of Visiting Forces
Haney, Albert R.
Hanks, Tom
Hart, Howard
Hartung, William D.
Hatoyama, Yukio
health care
Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin
Hellfire antitank missile
Helms, Richard
Henry V (Shakespeare)
Herbert, Bob
Heritage Foundation
Herring, Joanne
Hersh, Seymour
Hidden Terrors (Langguth)
Higgs, Robert
Hirohito, emperor of Japan
Historia Universal de La Destrucción de Los Libros (Márquez)
Hitz, Fred
Hobsbawn, Eric
Hoehn, Andy
Hoffman, Philip Seymour
Homeland Security Department
Honduras
Hoover, J. Edgar
Huizenga, John
Hunter, Stephen
Hussein, Saddam
Hutchison, Kay Bailey
Imperial Hubris (Scheuer)
imperial overstretch. See also empire and imperialism; military bases
imperial presidency
imports
Independent (London)
India
Indochina
Indonesia
coup of 1958
coup of 1965
industrial policy
intelligence. See also specific agencies
flaws in
number of agencies for
private contractors and
secrecy and spending on
Intelligence and Research Bureau (INR)
International Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders
international law
International Olympic Committee
international treaties
“inverted totalitarianism,”
Invisible History (Fitzgerald and Gould)
Iran
coup of 1953
revolution of 1979
Iran-Contra affair
Iraq
ancient history of
antiquities laws
covert actions and
elections and
Iraqi Central Bank
Iraqi Ministry of Religious Endowments
Iraqi National Library and Archives (Baghdad)
Iraqi National Museum
Iraqi Oil Ministry
Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage
“Iraq’s Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction,”
Iraq War and occupation (2003– )
bases and
cost of
democracy and
looting of cultural sites and
private contractors and
SOFA and
“surge” and
Ireland
Iron Curtain
Islamabad, Pakistan
Marriott bombing of 2008
U.S. embassy in
Islamic fundamentalism
Islamists (“freedom fighters,” jihadis, mujahideen)
Israel
bases in
Israeli air force
Israeli-Palestinian dispute
Istanbul British consulate and HSBC Bank assaults
Italian Council of State
Italy
bases in
CIA trials in
elections of 1948
Jamaat-e-Islami
Jamail, Dahr
Japan
bases in
elections in
imperialism
“sympathy budget” of
WW II and
Japanese-American Security Treaty
Japanese Constitution (1947)
Japanese Diet
Japanese Supreme Court
Jefferson, Thomas
Jeremiah, David
jobs
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Jones, James
Jordan
judicial branch
Justice Department
Kabul University
Kadena Air Force Base
Kaplan, Fred
Karimov, Islam
Karzai, Hamid
Kashmir
Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR)
Kennan, George
Kennedy, John F.
Kenya
Kerry, John
KGB
Khalilzad, Zalmay
Khartoum, Sudan
missile attack on
kidnapping
Kikuyu
Kim Dae Jung
Kim Young Sam
Kishi, Nobusuke
Kissinger, Henry
Kitty Hawk, USS (aircraft carrier)
Korea. See also North Korea; South Korea
Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA)
Korean War
Kosovo
Krulak, Charles C.
Kurds
Kuwait
Kwangju massacre
Kyrgyzstan
labor unions
Laden, Osama bin
Lady, Robert Seldon
Lake, Anthony
Lam, Carole
Langguth, A. J.
Laos
Latin America
League of Private Property Voters
Lebanon
Legacy of Ashes (Weiner)
Lewinsky, Monica
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
Library of Korans (Baghdad)
Lieven, Anatol
Limbaugh, Rush
Limits of Power, The (Bacevich)
Lind, William S.
Lindqvist, Sven
Lindsey, Robert
Lithuania
Lloyd George, David
Lockheed Martin
Lonely Soldier, The (Benedict)
Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad, The (Polk and Schuster)
Los Angeles Times
Los Cabitos airfield
Lumenick, Lou
Lumumba, Patrice
MacArthur, Douglas
MacGregor, Douglas
Maier, Charles
Malaysia
Mali
Mallowan, Max
Manas Air Base (Kyrgyzstan)
Manchuria
Manta Eloy Alfaro Air Base (Ecuador)
manufacturing
Marcos, Ferdinand
Marine Mammal Protection Act
Márquez, Humberto
Marshall Plan
Martin Marietta
Massoud, Ahmed Shah
McAfee, Marilyn
McCaffrey, Barry
McChrystal, Stanley
McConnell, Mike
McWilliams, Edmund
media
Medicare Prescription Drug Act (2003)
Melman, Seymour
Middle East
militarism
Military Appropriations Act (2004)
military bases (empire of bases). See also specific locations
closing
cost of
crimes at
domestic
extent of
protests vs.
repositioning
military-industrial complex
buildup of
corruption and waste and
secrecy and
military Keynesianism
Military Retirement Fund
Minuteman ICBM
Mira Costa College
Missile Defense Agency
Mobutu Sese Seko
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, shah of Iran
Monat, Der (magazine)
Morocco
Morse, John
Moseley, T. Michael
Mullen, Michael
Murphy, Carol
Musharraf, Pervez
Muslim Brotherhood
Myers, Richard
MZM Inc.
Nabu, Temple of
Nairobi embassy bombing
Najibullah, Mohammad
Nara Silk Road Civilizations exhibition
Nasr, Hassan Mustafa Osama “Abu Omar,”
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Archives
national debt
National Defense (Fallows)
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs)
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
National Rifle Association
National Right to Life Committee
National Security Act (1947)
National Security Agency (NSA)
National Security Council
Report 68 (NSC-68)
Native Tan sunblock
NATO bases
Naval Intelligence
naval task forces
Nebuchadnezzar II
Negroponte, John
Nemesis (Johnson)
Nemesis (goddess)
neoconservatives
New America Foundation
New Deal
“New” Europe
New York Post
New York Review of Books
New York Times
Nicaragua
Nichols, Mike
Nimrud excavations
Nineveh excavations
Nisour Square massacre
Nitze, Paul
Nixon, Richard M.
No Child Left Behind Act
North, Oliver
North Africa
Northern warlords
North Korea
Northrop Grumman
North Vietnam
North-West Frontier Territories
Nouvel Observateur, Le
nuclear weapons
Obama, Barack
Office of Management and Budget
Office of National Estimates
Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance
Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
Office of Systems Analysis
oil
Okinawa
Olympics (Seoul, 1988)
Oman
Omar, Mullah
On Revolution (Arendt)
opportunity costs
Opus Dei
Origins of Totalitarianism, The (Arendt)
Ottoman empire
oversight
Packard Commission (1986)
Pakistan
Pakistani army
Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)
Palladio, Andrea
Panama
Panama Canal
Papadopoulos, George
Pape, Robert
Paraguay
Park Chung Hee
Parthians
Pashtuns
PATRIOT Act
Pearl Harbor attack
Pearl Harbor (Wohlstetter)
Pentagon Capitalism (Melman)
People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan
permanent war
Persians
Peru
Peshawar, Pakistan, consulate
Petraeus, David
Philippines
bases in
Marcos overthrow of 1986
Phoenix Program
Piekney, William
Pinochet, Augusto
Poindexter, John
Poland
bases in
Policy Planning Staff
Polish exiles
political action committees (PACs)
political engineering
Political Moneyline
Polk, Milbry
Polk, William R.
pork-barrel projects
Portugal
Potsdam Declaration
Powell, Colin
Preble, Christopher
Predator drones
President’s Advisory Committee on Cultural Property
President’s Intelligence Oversight Board
preventive war
private contractors (mercenaries)
“Private Sector Survey on Cost Control” (Grace Commission)
Project for a New American Century
Project Vote Smart
Proxmire, William
public-private partnerships
Pyeongtaek, South Korea, base
Qatar
Qualcomm
racism
Rainer, Peter
Ramstein Air Force Base
Rancho Santa Fe, California
RAND Corporation
Raytheon
Reagan, Ronald
Republican Party
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC)
Rhee, Syngman
Rice, Condoleezza
Risen, James
Roberts, Julia
Robeson, Mastin
Robson, Eleanor
Rocchi, James
Roddy, Melissa
Roh Tae Woo
Romania
Rome, ancient
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rumsfeld, Donald
Russia, post-Soviet. See also Soviet Union
Sabri, Naji
Safire, William
Salman, Prince, of Saudi Arabia
Sanchez, Loretta
San Diego, California
San Diego Union-Tribune
satellite intelligence
Saudi Arabia
Saudi General Intelligence Department (Istakhbarat)
Saudi Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice
Saunders, Frances Stonor
Scahill, Jeremy
Scheuer, Michael F.
Schlesinger, James
School of the Americas
Schröder, Gerhard
Schuster, Angela M. H.
Schwarzennegger, Arnold
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Scott, A. O.
2nd Infantry Division
secrecy
secret prisons
Senegal
September 11, 2001, attacks (9/11)
sexual violence
Shakespeare, William
Shia Muslims
Shining Path
Shorrock, Tim
Sierra Leone
signals intelligence
Singapore
60 Minutes (TV show)
Smith, Haviland
Socialist Party (Japan)
Social Security
Solomon, John
Somoza, Anastasio
Sorkin, Aaron
Sorrows of Empire, The (Johnson)
South America
South Asia
South Korea
bases in
South Korean National Assembly
South Korean Supreme Court
South Vietnam
Soviet-Afghan War (1979–89)
Soviet empire
Soviet Union (USSR)
atheism of, vs. Islam
CIA and
Cold War and
demise of, and end of empire
military spending
space warfare
Spain
Spangdahlem Air Force Base
Special Forces
Spiegel, Peter
Spies for Hire (Shorrock)
Spinney, Franklin “Chuck,”
Sprey, Pierre M.
Stalin, Joseph
standing armies
Stasi
State Department
defense spending and
Pakistan and
private contractors and
state terrorism
Status of Forces Agreements (SOFAs)
Steadman Review (1977)
Strategic Air Command
“Streamlin
ing Review” (Defense Science Board)
Streetcar Named Desire, A (Williams)
Studies on Persianate Societies (journal)
Stuttgart, Germany, base
submarines
Suharto
suicide option
Sullivan, Martin
Sumerians
Sun Fun Products
Sunni Muslims
Switzerland
Syria
Taguba, Anthony
Tailhook Association
Taiwan
Taliban
Tallil Air Base (Nasariyah)
tariffs
taxes
Team B
Tenet, George
terrorism. See also specific events
Thailand
3rd Brigade
3rd Marine Division
Third World
Tibet
Titan Corporation
Tomsen, Peter
Top Gun Enterprises
Top Gun (film)
Toronto Globe and Mail
torture
Total Information Awareness Program
Total System Performance Responsibility initiative
trade deficits. See also current accounts
Treasury Department
Triple Canopy
Truman, Harry S.
TRW
Tunisia
Turan, Kenneth
Turkey
Turki, Prince, of Saudi Arabia
Turse, Nick
Twetten, Thomas
U-2 aircraft
UNESCO
Uniform Code of Military Justice
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
United Fruit Company
United Kingdom. See Great Britain
United Nations
Security Council Resolution 1483 (2003)
U.S. Air Force
U.S. armed forces (military). See also Defense Department; military bases; private contractors; and specific branches, base locations, and wars
all-volunteer
control of government by
disabled veterans and
looting of Iraq and
rape of women in
U.S. Army
U.S. Coast Guard
U.S. Congress
incumbency and
military spending and
private contractors and
U.S. Constitution
U.S. Forces Korea
U.S. House of Representatives
Appropriations Committee
Defense Appropriations Subcommittee
Foreign Affairs subcommittee
U.S. House of Representatives (cont’d)
Intelligence Oversight Committee
National Security Subcommittee
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
U.S.-Japanese Security Treaty
U.S. Marine Corps
Civil Affairs Bureau
U.S. Navy
U.S. Senate
Armed Services Committee
Military Construction Subcommittee
U.S. Supreme Court
Ur archaeological site
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vatican
Venezuela
Veterans Affairs Department
Vicenza, Italy, base
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Vikan, Gary
Vinnell Corporation
Wag the Dog (film)
Wahhabi fundamentalists
Warner, John
Washington Post
Waziristan
wealthy
weapons of mass destruction
Weiner, Tim
West Africa
Western Europe
Westmoreland, William
Wheeler, Winslow
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