Dismantling the Empire

INDEX

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A-10 “Warthog” aircraft

abortion

Abraham Lincoln, USS (aircraft carrier)

abstract expressionism

Abu Ghraib

Acquisition Streamlining Task Force

ADCS Inc.

Afghanistan. See also Afghan War; Anglo-Afghan wars; Soviet-Afghan War

Carter and

CIA and

civil war and Taliban takeover of

coups of 1973 and 1978

Pakistan and

Saudi Arabia and

Afghanistan (Dupree)

Afghan War (2001– )

cost of

Obama and

Pakistan and

Agency for International Development (USAID)

aircraft

aircraft carriers

Air Mobility Command

Albright, Madeleine

Alexander the Great

Algeria

Allende, Salvador

al-Qaeda

American Council for Cultural Policy

American Enterprise Institute

America Right or Wrong (Lieven)

Ames, Aldrich

Anderson, Frank

Anglo-Afghan wars

anti-Americanism

antiballistic missile ban

anti-ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) network

Arbenz, Jacobo

arc of instability

Arendt, Hannah

Argentina

Arjomand, Saïd

Armitage, Richard

arms sales

Army and Air Force Exchange Service

Assyrians

Auerback, Marshall

Augustus Caesar

Australia

automotive industry

Aviano Air Base (Italy)

Avrakotos, Gust

B-2 stealth bomber

B-52 bomber

Babylon

Bacevich, Andrew

Baghdad

Mongol invasion of

Baghdad International Airport

Baghdad National Museum

Bagram Air Base

Bahrain

Bahrani, Zainab

Baker, Dean

balance of powers

Bamiyan Buddhist statues

bank bailouts

Barnes, Julian

Barnett, Correlli

Barr, Jay

“Base Structure Reports,”

Bashur airfield

Batista, Fulgencio

Bay of Pigs invasion

Bearden, Milton

Belgrade Chinese embassy bombing

Benedict, Helen

Berger, Sandy

Berke, Richard L.

Berlin Wall, fall of

Berlusconi, Silvio

Beyond the Green Zone (Jamail)

Bhutto, Benazir

Bilbray, Brian

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, base

Bissell, Richard

Black, Cofer

black budgets

Blackwater

Blackwater (Scahill)

Blair, Tony

blowback

Blowback (Johnson)

Boeing

Bolivia

Booz Allen Hamilton

Boyd, John

Boyd (Coram)

Brazil

Bremer, L. Paul, III

British Empire. See also Great Britain

British Petroleum

Bromwich, David

Bryan, William Jennings

Brzezinski, Zbigniew

Bulgaria

Burns, John

Busby, Francine

Bush, George H. W. (Bush I)

Bush, George W. (Bush II)

bin Laden and

defense spending and

Iraq and

preventive war and

private contractors and

Business-Industry PAC

CACI International

Caesar, Julius

California 50th Congressional District

Cambodia

campaign contributions

Camp Anaconda (Iraq)

Camp Bondsteel (Kosovo)

Camp Butler (Okinawa)

Camp Justice (Diego Garcia)

Camp Lemonier (Djibouti)

Camp Schwab (Okinawa)

Canada

Cannistraro, Vincent

Capabilities-Based Acquisition

Cardiff School Board

Caribbean

Carlucci Acquisition Initiatives

Carter, Jimmy

Casey, William

Castro, Fidel

Catholic Action

Catholic Church

CENTCOM

Center for Economic and Policy Research

Center for Responsive Politics

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). See also specific countries and operations

Afghanistan and jihadis and

blowback and

budget of

creation of

history of crimes and bungling of

need to abolish

9/11 and

oversight and

private contractors and

secrecy of

Charlie Wilson’s War (film and book)

Cheney, Dick

Chicago Sun-Times

Chile

coup of 1973

China

Chinese Communist Party

Chinese National People’s Congress

Chomsky, Noam

Christian Coalition

Christian Democratic Party (Italy)

Christian Science Monitor

Christie, Thomas

Chun Doo Hwan

CIA Records Search Technology (CREST)

Cinematical

Clarke, Richard

Clarridge, Duane R. “Dewey,”

Clinton, Bill

Coalition Provisional Authority

Colby, William

Cold War

end of

Cole, USS, attack on

Coll, Steve

Colombia

Communist Party of Italy

Complex, The (Turse)

Congo-Zaire

Congressional Budget Office

Congressional Record

Congressional Reference Service

Conrail

containment

Control Supply Company

Coram, Robert

corporate power

Correa, Rafael

corruption

counterinsurgency doctrine

counterterrorism

Counterterrorist Center

coups

covert action

Crile, George

Cruise, Tom

cruise missiles

Cuba

Cubic Corporation

Cultural Cold War, The (Saunders)

Culvahouse, Arthur B.

Cunningham, Randy “Duke,”

current accounts

Curtis, John

Czech Republic

Danics, Anita

Daoud, Sardar Mohammed

Dar es Salaam embassy bombing

Darwin, Charles

data-mining

death squads

debt. See also federal deficits; national debt

Decision Research

Decline in America’s Reputation, The

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Defense Authorization Bills

defense contractors (munitions industry). See also military-industrial complex; private contractors

Defense Department (DOD, Pentagon). See also military bases; and specific bases, countries, weapons, and wars

base inventories by

base repositioning and

budgets of

Inspector General

Iraqi museums and

munitions industry and

private contractors and

procurement by, and reform attempts

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Defense Management Review

“Defense Power Games” (Spinney)

defense reform movement

Defense Science Board

Task Force on Strategic Communication

defense spending. See also Defense Department; military-industrial complex; military Keynesianism

economic impact of

overseas bases and

public-private partnerships and

size of, vs. other countries

supplementary, for Iraq and Afghanistan

wasteful, and reform attempts

democracy

empire and

defined

imposing, on others

privatization and

Democracy Incorporated (Wolin)

Democratic Party (Japan)

Democratic Socialist Party (Japan)

Denmark

Deterring Democracy (Chomsky)

Deutch, John

Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killings

dictatorships

Diego Garcia

Djibouti

dollar, value of

domestic spying

Dominican Republic

Donovan, William J. “Wild Bill,”

Dornan, Bob

Douglas, Paul

Drug Enforcement Administration

drugs

Dulles, Allen S.

Dupree, Louis

Durand Line

Dutch empire

Dying to Win (Pape)

DynCorp

earmarks

East Asia

Eastern Europe

Ebert, Roger

economy. See also current accounts; federal deficits; Great Recession; military Keynesianism

cost of bases and

domestic spending and

empire and

impact of defense spending on

Ecuador

education

Egypt

Ehmann, Amy

82nd Airborne Division

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

elections, foreign

elections, U.S.

of 2000

of 2004

of 2008

El Salvador

Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act (2003)

empire and imperialism (hegemony). See also military bases

Afghan War and

democracy vs

economic impact of

“footprint” of

ideology of

Middle East and

militarism and

Obama and

steps for dismantling

“empire of consumption,”

Encounter (magazine)

Endangered Species Act

Energy Department

environmental damage

espionage

Europe

bases in

imperialism and

European Union

Euro Zone

Evans, Don

“Exterminate All the Brutes” (Lindqvist)

F-16 fighter planes

F-22 Raptor supersonic stealth fighter

F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

F-105 fighter

Falcon and the Snowman, The (Lindsey)

Fallows, James

Fallujah

fascism

FBI

federal deficits

Federal Election Commission

Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (1996)

Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA, Pakistan)

Federation of American Scientists

Feinstein, Dianne

Fighter Mafia

Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (9/11 Commission Report)

Fisk, Robert

Fitzgerald, Paul

Fitzhugh (Blue Ribbon) Commission

Foggo, Kyle “Dusty,”

Ford, Gerald

foreign military aid

Foreign Policy in Focus

Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force

fourth-generation warfare

4th Infantry Division

France

empire of

Frank, Barney

Frank, Thomas

Franks, Tommy

French Foreign Legion

Friedman, Benjamin

Friedman, Stephen

front-loading

Futenma Air Station

Galápagos Islands

Garmisch vacation center

Garner, Jay

Gates, Robert M.

Geithner, Timothy

General Dynamics

Geneva Accords (1988)

Gentile, Giovanni

George, Clair

George H. W. Bush, USS (aircraft carrier)

Georgia

Germany

bases in

empire and

Nazi

Ghana

Ghost Wars (Coll)

Gibney, Alex

Gibson, McGuire

Gingrich, Newt

“global cavalry,”

Global Insight

Global Security Organization

Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act (1986)

Gorbachev, Mikhail

Goss, Porter

Gould, Elizabeth

Grace, J. Peter, Jr

Grafenwöhr Training Area

Great Britain (United Kingdom). See also British Empire

Afghanistan and

bases in

Iraq and

Great Depression

Great Recession (financial crisis of 2008–10)

Greece

ancient

Greenland

Green Zone

Groen, Rick

Gromov, Boris

Guam

Guantánamo Bay

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

Mossadegh, Muhammad

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

“Streamlining 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

Wilkes, Brent

Williams, Tennessee

Wilson, Charlie

Wilson, Woodrow

Wisner, Frank

Wohlstetter, Roberta

Wolfowitz, Paul

Wolin, Sheldon S.

women

Afghanistan and

overseas bases and

rights of

Woods, Thomas E., Jr.

Woolsey, James

“World Factbook” (CIA)

World Monuments Fund

World War I

World War II

Wrecking Crew, The (Frank)

Wynne, Michael W.

Yokosuka, Japan, base

Yongsan Garrison

Young, Don

Zahir Shah, king of Afghanistan

Zawahiri, Ayman al-

Zawhar Kili missile attack

Zia-ul-Haq, Mohammed

Zimansky, Paul