Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (63 page)

al-Rashid Military Camp (Iraq),
161

al Sahra airfield (Iraq),
162
–63

al Taqaddum military base (Iraq),
162

Al-Udeid Air Base (Qatar),
124
,
159

Alwani, Hatim al-,
29

American Aviation Historical Society,
126

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),
42
–44

American Council for Cultural Policy,
50

American embassies,
104
,
107
,
133
,
168
,
183
,
188
–90,
194

      bombings of 1998,
118
–19,
122
–23

American empire,
1
–11

      British Empire and,
56
,
71
–76,
80
,
84
–85

      democracy undercut by,
56
,
60
,
88
–89,
278
–79

      economy and,
81
,
83
–85,
270

      Iraq and,
157
–63

      military bases and,
6
–7,
138
–39,
141
,
156
–58,
177
–207,
278

      neoconservatives and,
73
–75,
142
–43

      space weaponry and,
211

American Enterprise Institute (AEI),
148
–49,
229

American Historical Association,
248

American Indians,
75
,
77
,
263

American Prospect
,
261

American Service-Members’ Protection Act (2002),
145

America Right or Wrong (Lieven),
270

Amritsar, massacre at (1919),
79

Anderson, Frank,
113

Andersson, Arne,
128
,
130

Angola,
94

anti-Americanism,
177
,
179
–80,
194

Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty (1972),
220
,
228
,
241

antiballistic missile (ABM) defense system,
209
–10,
212
–14,
220
–32

antinuclear movement,
208
–9

antisatellite (ASAT) weapons,
209
,
214
,
216
–19,
236
,
239
–41

anti-Vietnam War movement,
92
,
254

Antony, Mark,
67
,
68

Antony and Cleopatra
(Shakespeare),
56

Anwar, Masood,
125
–26

Arai, Shogo,
196

Arar, Maher,
128
,
268

Arbatov, Aleksei,
228

archaeological sites,
46
–47,
51
–53

“arc of instability,”
147
,
158

Arendt, Hannah,
17
,
21
–22,
24
,
75
,
78
,
88

Argentina,
3
,
108
–9,
121
,
164
,
166
–67,
169
,
236
,
269

Arjomand, Said,
51

Arkin, William M.,
141
,
143

Armey, Dick,
212

Armitage, Richard,
167

Armor Holdings,
262

Army, U.S.,
17
,
22
,
43
–45,
47
,
153
,
163
,
179

Army Air Corps,
126

Army Corps of Engineers,
154
,
159

Army First Armored Division,
141

Army First Infantry Division,
141

Army Medical Corps,
45

Army Rangers,
40

Army Times,
33

Aruba,
148
,
165

Asahi Evening News
,
176

Asahi Shimbun
,
188
,
191
,
197

ASEAN Regional Forum (2003),
189
–90

Ash, Timothy Carton,
34

Ashcroft, John,
35
,
247

Assassination of Julius Caesar, The
(Parenti),
56
–57

assassinations,
94
,
102
,
107
–9,
250

Assyria,
47
–48,
78

“asymmetric warfare,”
2

Atlantic Monthly
,
29
–30

Atomic Energy Commission,
92

Auerback, Marshall,
271

Augustus Caesar (Octavian), emperor of Rome,
68
–69,
266

Austen, Jane,
75

Australia,
148
,
157

autonomous proximity operations,
240

Aviano Air Base (Italy),
133
,
145

Avrakotos, Gust,
113
–16

Aztecs,
76

Babylonia, ancient,
46
–47,
52
,
78

Baccus, Rick,
42

Bacevich, Andrew,
20

Baer, Robert,
124

Baghdad,
5
,
23
–24,
33
,
47
,
49
–51,
160
–62

Baghdad Burning Web site,
9

Baghdad International Airport,
161
–62

Bagram Air Base (Afghanistan),
8
,
37
,
124
,
246

Bahrain,
148
,
150
,
159

Bahrani, Zainab,
52

Baker, Howard,
188
,
189

Baker, Kevin,
14
,
74
–75

Bakiyev, Kurmanbek,
153

Balad Air Force Base (Iraq),
162
–63

Balkans,
63
,
122

“banality of evil,”
21
–22

Bandura, Albert,
120
–21

Baring, Evelyn, Lord Cromer,
74

Barr, Bob,
268

Base Realignment and Closure (BRAG),
149

Base Structure Report
,
5
–6,
138
,
140
,
146
–47

Basra,
163

Batista, Fulgencio,
19

Bayard Foreign Marketing,
127

Bay of Pigs invasion,
96

BBC,
30

Bearden, Milton,
113
,
118

Bell, BurwellB.,
173
,
221

Bergenstrand, Klas,
131

Berkin, Carol,
15
–16

Berkshire Eagle-
,
14

Berlin Airlift,
156

Berlin Wall, fall of,
117

Berlusconi, Silvio,
131
–32,
134
,
154

Berrigan, Frida,
230

Beyond Fear
(Schneier),
252

Bhutto, ZulfikarAli,
115

Bilefsky, Dan,
123

Bill of Rights,
176
,
254

Bilmes, Linda,
277

bin Laden, Osama,
1
,
3
,
25
,
35
,
91
,
98
–99,
111
,
118
–20

“Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” (August 6, 2001, memo),
98

Bin Laden Unit,
122

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan,
153

Bissell, Richard,
96

Black, Gofer,
124

Black, Hugo,
253

black budgets,
115
,
229
,
230
,
264

Blackman, Robert L,
196

black propaganda,
105

Blair, Tony,
46

Blanton, Thomas,
248

“Bloody Niggers” (Graham),
78

blowback,
1
–2,
110
,
120
,
122
–23,
278
–79

Blowback
,
1
–2,
278

Blumenthal, Sidney,
255

Blunt, Roy,
261
–62

Board of National Estimates (BNE),
96

BoccaPaz, Alfredo,
168

Boeing Corp.,
128
,
211
–13,
222
,
225
–26,
262

Boers,
75
,
87

Bolivia,
94
,
108
,
164

Bolton, John,
15
,
211

bombing,
21
,
24
–26,
31
–33

boost-phase interception,
221
–22,
224
–26

Boot, Max,
71

Boston Globe
,
29
,
224

Boykin, William G. “Jerry,”
4

Brandeis, Louis,
253

Brazil,
3
,
104
,
108
,
164
,
166
–67,
169
,
236

Bremer, L. Paul,
158

Brezhnev, Leonid,
82

Brilliant Solution
, A (Berkin),
15
–16

British East India Company,
77

British Empire,
4
,
35
,
46
,
55
–56,
71
–90,
121
,
138
,
157
,
279

British Royal Air Force,
87
,
126
,
140

Bromma Airport (Sweden),
128
–29

Brooks, David,
38

Brown, Lisa,
184

Brown, Michael J.,
184
–90

Browne, Harry,
243

Brutus,
57
,
60
,
67
–68

Brzezinski, Zbigniew,
110

Buchanan, Walter E., Ill,
158
–59

Budget Control and Impoundment Act (1974),
250

Bulgaria,
143
,
149
,
155

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
,
165
,
232

“Burden, The” (Ignatieff),
74

Burns, John,
48

Bush, George H. W. (Bush 1),
26
,
45
,
50
,
76
,
96
,
142
,
193
,
248
–50

Bush, George W. (Bush II),
8
,
21
,
33
,
39
–40,
62
,
152
,
211
,
243
,
262

      addresses by,
3
,
47
,
100
,
123
–24,
144
,
231

      defense spending and,
270
–71,
275
–78

      extraordinary renditions and,
122
–23,
152

      free market and,
82
,
84
–85

      intelligence and,
10
,
90
–92,
96
,
98
–102,
135
–36

      Iraq and,
45
–47,
50
,
77
,
98
–102,
136
,
138
,
154
,
161
,
203
,
277

      Japan and,
177
,
180
–81,
186
,
190
–93,
198
–200,
203

      Latin America and,
168
–69

      military bases and,
141
,
144
,
149
,
154
–57,
178
,
201

      9/11 attacks and,
2
–5,
96
,
167

      presidential power and,
8
,
13
–15,
57
–60,
68,
71
,
191
,
244
,
246
–48,
250
–59,
266
–68

      space and,
209
–10,
213
–15,
220
,
227
–29,
231
–32

      torture and,
33
–10,
258
–59

Bybee, Jay S.,
38

Byrd, Robert,
14
,
55
–56,
65
,
67
,
265

Caesar, Julius,
56
–57,
59
,
62
–68,
70
,
244
,
268

Caligula, emperor of Rome,
69

Cambodia,
3
,
19
,
94
,
96

Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire
,
77
,
79
–80,
86

campaign contributions,
242
,
259
–62

Camp Anaconda (Iraq),
162

Camp Bondsteel (Kosovo),
140
,
161

Camp Courtney (Japan),
184
,
187
–88

Camp Darby (Italy),
154
–55

Camp Echo complex,
124

Camp Foster (Japan),
190

Camp Hansen (Japan),
179
–80,
189
–90

Camp Humphreys (South Korea),
145

Camp Lemonier (Djibouti),
147

Camp Marez (Iraq),
162

Camp Qayyarah (Q-West, Iraq),
162
–63

Camp Renegade (Iraq),
162

Camp Salerno (Afghanistan),
124

Camp Schwab (Japan),
194
,
204
,
206

Camp
6
,
124

Camp Speicher (Iraq),
163

Camp Stronghold Freedom (K-2, Uzbekistan),
151
–53