American Way of War (33 page)

presidential power and

Global War on Terror and

Cambodia

Carroll, James

Cheney, Richard (Dick)

Churchill, Winston

civilian deaths.
See also
collateral damage

Clarke, Richard

Clarke, Victoria

Clinton, Hillary

COIN (counterinsurgency) doctrine

Cole, August

Cole, Juan R.

Coll, Steve

collateral damage.
See also
civilian deaths

Conrad, Joseph

Conway, James

Cooper, Helene

Cordesman, Anthony

counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine

Dean, Howard

Declaration of Independence
(1776)

defense contractors (private)

DeYoung, Karen

Dowd, Maureen

Drew, Christopher

Dreyfuss, Robert

drones.
See also
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Dr. Strangelove
(1964)

Eaton, Paul D.

Eikenberry, Karl

embassies

endless war discourse

Erlanger, Steven

Erulkar, Matthew D.

extraordinary rendition (kidnapping)

Fail-Safe
(1964)

Feingold, Russell

Feith, Douglas

Filkins, Dexter

Flaherty, Anne

Fleischer, Ari

Franklin, H. Bruce

Franks, Tommy

Frantz, Douglas

Fratto, Tony

Freedland, Jonathan

Freedom Tower

Friedman, Tom

Gabler, Neal

Gall, Carlotta

Gant, Jim

Garlasco, Marc

Gates, Robert

Gearan, Anne

Gibbs, Robert

G.I. Joe

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
(2009)

Givhan, Walter

Global War on Terror

Goodman, Melvin

“Gorgon Stare” video system

Gorman, Siobhan

Graham, Bradley

Graham, Robert (Bob)

Ground Zero

Grozny (Chechnya)

gunboat diplomacy

Hayden, Tom

Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin

Hersh, Seymour

Hiroshima

Hirsh, Michael

Hitchens, Theresa

Holbrooke, Richard

Hollywood movie, war as.
See also Dr. Strangelove
(1964);
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
(2009);
Pearl Harbor
(2001);
Terminator
movies

homeland security

Humphrey, Hubert

Hussein, Saddam

Hutton, James

Ignatius, David

imprisonment.
See also
torture

Israel

Jamail, Dahr

James, Caryn

Johnson, Chalmers

Johnson, Lyndon

Jones, James

Kagan, Frederick

Kagan, Kimberly

Kandahar Airfield

Karzai, Hamid

Khalilzad, Zalmay

Khan, Awal

Khan, Reza

Kilian, Michael

Kraft, Joseph

Krauthammer, Charles

Krugman, Paul

Kurtz, Howard

LaFraniere, Sharon

Landler, Mark

Laos

Lebanon

Lenahan, Patrick

Levin, Carl

Libby, Scooter

Lindqvist, Sven

MacArthur, Douglas

Massoud, Ahmed Shah

Mayer, Jane

Mazzetti, Mark

McCaffrey, Barry R.

McCain, John

McChrystal, Stanley

McInerney, Thomas G.

McKiernan, David D.

Meigs, Montgomery

Michaels, Jim

military bases

airbases

base-building and

embassy as

as enduring camps/occupation

financial costs of

global presence of

as gunboat diplomacy

private contractors and

secret bases

space-based platforms

Miller, Judy

Mitchell, Allison

Mitchell, Billy

Mohammed, Khalid Shaikh

monuments to war

Morgenstein, Jonathan

Mullen, Mike

Nadery, Ahmad Nader

Nagl, John

Neillands, Robin

newspeak

airpower and

American imperialism and

civilian death and

collateral damage

covert war

extraordinary rendition (kidnapping)

good governance

media coverage and

terrorist/rebel/resistance and

torture

U.S. war culture and

See also
Hollywood movie, war as

Next Generation Bomber

Nielson-Green, Rumi

Nixon, Richard/Nixon administration

North, Oliver

Obama, Barack/Obama administration

counterinsurgency and

drones and

endless war discourse

good governance discourse and

imagined address on Afghanistan

inherited legacy of

national security expenditures

war on terror and

war policies/war cabinet of

widening war efforts of

withdrawal plans

Odierno, Ray

O’Hanlon, Michael

Orwell, George

“Ozymandias” (Shelley)

Panetta, Leon

Patriot Act

Paur, Jason

Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor
(2001)

Pentagon, the

Perkins, David G.

Petraeus, David

Pincus, Walter

Plame, Valerie

Pletka, Danielle

Pollack, Kenneth

Porter, Gareth

Powell, Colin

Project for the New American Century

Reagan, Ronald/Reagan administration

Reese, Timothy R.

Reflecting Absence memorial

Rich, Frank

Ricks, Thomas E.

Risen, James

Rosenberg, Matthew

Roughead, Gary

Rove, Karl

Rumsfeld, Donald

Rupert, James

Safire, William

Saletan, William

Sanger, David E.

Scahill, Jeremy

Scarborough, Rowan

Schake, Kori

Schell, Jonathan

Schloesser, Jeffrey J.

Schmitt, Eric

Searle, Thomas F.

sectarian struggles

September 11

as “36-Hour war,”

Bush administration and

Ground Zero and

as Hollywood movie

media coverage of

Pearl Harbor and

pre-9/11 shark attack stories and

Seven Days in May
(1964)

Shachtman, Noah

Shadid, Anthony

Shane, Scott

Shanker, Thom

shark attacks

Shelby, Richard

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Sherry, Michael

Singer, Peter

Slaughter, Anne-Marie

Sly, Liz

Spiegel, Peter

Spolar, Christine

Steele, Michael

Steinberg, Saul

Sterngold, James

surveillance.
See also
drones

Taliban, the

Tavernise, Sabrina

Teets, Peter B.

Tenet, George

Terminator
movies

terrorism

domestic fear of

media discourse on

newspeak and

Obama administration and

pre-9/11 domestic terrorism

war on terror and

torture

Turse, Nick

Tyson, Ann Scott

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Vietnam

weapons of mass destruction

Weart, Spencer

Weeki Wachee mermaids

Wells, H. G.

Westmoreland, William

Will, George

Williams, Daniel

withdrawal efforts

Wolfowitz, Paul

Woodward, Bob

Woolsey, R. James

Wright Brothers

Zahir, Haji

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