Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (68 page)

      culture of,
146

      domestic bases vs.,
138

      empire of,
71
,
278

      Iraq and,
157
–63

      Japan and,
171
–207

      neoconservative program to transform military and,
142
–45,
148
–50

      number and size of,
5
–6,
10
,
138
–42
139
,
178

      Paraguay and,
163
–70

      protocols to establish,
144
–45

      relationships with host countries and,
6
–7,
151
–57

      SOFAs for,
171
–75

      types of,
145
–49

Military Construction Appropriations Act,
7
,
150
,
276

military courts,
177

military-industrial complex,
9
,
15
,
71
,
89
,
209
,
210
,
229
,
242
,
260
,
264
–65,
269
,
273

military intelligence,
34
–35

“military Keynesianism,”
138
,
271
–79

military pensions,
276

Miller, Geoffrey,
34
,
40
,
42
–44

Milstar satellites,
238

MIRVs (multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles),
97

Miscik, Jami A.,
101

Missile Defense Agency (MDA),
218
,
222
,
224
–27

missile defense program (NMD),
199
–200,
211
–14,
220
–33,
242
,
265

      commission on (Rumsfeld report of 1998),
212
–14

“missile gap,”
216

Misty stealth satellites,
240

Mobutu, SeseSeko,
19

Moffitt, Ronni Karpen,
109

Mohammed, Jamil Qasim Saeed,
125

Mondale, Walter,
246

money laundering,
110
,
167

Montesquieu,
16
,
55

Moore, Mike,
232

“Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR)” commands,
6

Morales, Evo,
164
,
166

“Morbidity and Mortality Among Iraqi Children” (Garfield),
28
–29

Morocco,
9
,
123
–24,
148
,
236

Moron Air Base (Spain),
156

Morris, Gouverneur,
15

Morris, Jan,
54

Moseley, T. Michael,
33

Moss, John,
245

Mossadeq, Mohammad,
2

Mosul, Iraq,
42
,
48
,
162

Mountbatten, Edwina, Lady,
80

Mountbatten, Lord,
88

Moyers, Bill,
230
,
245
,
261
–62,
264

MRVs (multiple reentry vehicles),
97

Muhammad (prophet),
4

Murdoch, Rupert,
38

Murphy, Frank,
39
–40

Murray, Craig,
152

Murtha, John P.,
260

Muslim Brotherhood,
112
,
117
,
130

Muslims,
4
,
9
,
47
,
76
,
167
.
See also
Islamists

Myers, Richard,
23
,
34
,
40
–42,
180

Myers v. United States
,
253
–54

My Lai massacre,
29

MZM Inc.,
260
–61

Nabu, Temple of,
52

Nago, Japan,
194

Nagy, Thomas,
26

Nairobi embassy bombing,
118
–19,
122
–23

Najibullah, Mohammad,
117

Nakamine, Victoria,
184
–85,
187
–88

Napoleon Bonaparte,
70

“narcoterrorism,”
164

NASA,
216
,
219

Nasiriyah.,
51

Nasser, Gamal Abdel,
87

national debt,
270
–71,
275
,
277

National Defense Authorization Act (2000),
214

National Democratic Institute,
152

National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs),
93
–94,
97
–98,
106

nationalism,
82
,
85
–88

National Military Justice Group,
186

National Missile Defense Act (1999),
213

National Museum of Iraq,
46
–50

National Public Radio,
239

National Reconnaissance Office,
215

National Security Act (1947),
93
,
94

National Security Adviser,
97
–98

National Security Agency (NSA),
91
–92,
156
,
251
,
254
–57,
266

National Security Archive,
107
,
248

National Security Council (NSC),
92
–93,
100
,
102
,
104
,
192

National Security Strategy of 2002,
58

Natural Resources Defense Council,
155
–56

Navy, U.S.,
17
,
153
,
179

      Headquarters in Europe,
154

Navy Engineering Logistics Office (NELO),
127

Navy SEALs,
40

Nebuchadnezzar II,
51
–52

Negroponte, John,
92

Nehru, Jawaharlal,
80

“Neighborhood Girl” (Shreffler),
10
–11

Nelson, Bill,
262

Nemesis (goddess),
10
–11,
243
–44,
279

neoconservatives,
142
,
148
–49,
198
–99,
210
–11,
215
–16,
231

neoliberalism,
82
,
164

Nero, emperor of Rome,
70

Neumann, Michael,
74

New Deal,
272
–73

New Republic
,
102

Newsweek
,
125
,
159
,
160

New Yorker
,
37
,
122
,
167

New York Journal-American
,
176

New York Times
,
3
,
38
,
44
,
48
,
58
,
80
,
81
,
100
,
106
,
123
,
135
,
146
,
156
,
159
,
209
,
255
,
256
,
266
,
268

      
Magazine
,
73

New Zealand,
75
,
157

Nicaragua,
3
,
19
,
94
,
103
–4,
112
–13,
163
–65,
248
.
See also
Iran-Contra scandal

Niebuhr, Reinhold,
76

Niger,
100
,
148

Nimrud excavations,
52
,
48

9/11 Commission (National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States),
98
–99,
123

      
Report
,
137

Nineveh,
52

Nixon, Richard M.,
54
,
92
,
94
–96,
104
,
106
–8,
121
,
246
–47,
250

noise pollution,
173
–74,
195

nongovernmental organizatons (NGOs),
152

Nordstrom,
263

Noriega, Roger,
168

North, Oliver,
112
–13

North, Thomas,
67

North Africa,
63
,
147
–48

North American Treaty Organization (NATO),
5
,
141
,
171
–72,
174

Northcom,
61

Northeast Asia,
143
,
157

Northern Alliance,
35
–37,
100
,
143

North Korea,
94
,
145
,
199
,
205
,
207
,
210
,
221
,
223

Northrop Grumman,
212
,
225
,
257
,
264

North Vietnam,
96

nuclear weapons,
7
–8,
98
–100,
138
,
141
,
154
–56,
202
,
206
,
208
–10,
212
–13,
241
,
274
,
276

Obering, Henry,
225

Observer
,
137

Occidental Petroleum Co.,
165

Octavian,
66
–69

Office of Legal Counsel,
36
,
251

Office of National Estimates,
94

Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA),
50

Office of Special Plans,
99
–100

oil,
6
,
46
,
51
,
142
,
147
–48,
158
,
162
,
165
–66,
199
,
203
,
219

oil for food program,
28

Okinawa,
3
,
171
,
173
–74,
177
–207

Oklahoma City bombing,
231

Oliphant, Jermaine,
183

Oman,
94
,
148
,
159

“Omar, Abu” (Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr),
131
–34

Omar, Mullah Mohammed,
31
,
118

Omdurman, battle of,
79

“1-4-2-1” defense strategy,
143

101st Airborne Division,
42
,
162

O’Neill, Tip,
115

On the Spirit of the Laws
(Montesquieu),
16

Oosterlinck, Rene,
235

Operation Condor,
108
,
112

Operation Enduring Freedom,
276

Operation Goldenrod,
121
–22

Operation Infinite Justice,
76

Operation Iraqi Freedom,
76
,
143
,
159
,
232

Operation Just Cause,
76

Operation Urgent Fury,
18
–19

Opium wars,
77

Opus Dei,
112

Orbital Debris Quarterly News
,
219

Origins of Totalitarianism, The
(Arendt),
22

Ornstein, Norman,
229

Ota, Masahide,
181
–82

Ottoman Empire,
14
,
46
,
49
,
87

Outer Space Treaty (1967),
241

Overseas Basing Commission,
147
,
150
–51,
158
,
160

Ozaki, Hotsumi,
279

Pacom,
61
,
202

Pakistan,
35
–36,
87
–88,
111
–13,
115
–17,
119
,
124
–26,
148
,
236

Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI),
112
,
116
,
118

Palestinians,
3

Panama,
3
,
76
,
261

PanAmSat,
238

Paraguay,
108
,
163
,
165
–70

Parenti, Michael,
56
–57,
62
,
67

Passage to India, A
(Forster),
80

Patriot PAC-3 missile,
220
,
227

“Patterns of Terrorism” (State Department report),
167

Pax Americana,
58

Pax Romana,
58
–59,
69

Pearl Harbor,
93
,
95

Pentagon.
See
Defense Department

People for the American Way,
247

Pérez Esquivel, Adolfo,
170

Perle, Richard,
211

Perón, Juan,
70

Persian Gulf,
140
,
148
,
150
,
163

Persson, Göran,
130

Peru,
165

Peterson Air Force Base (Colorado),
232

Pfaff, William,
151

Philbin, Patrick E,
38

Philippi, battle of,
68

Philippines,
3
,
19
–20,
39
,
74
,
81
,
84
,
94
,
104
,
147
–48,
207

Phillips, Wendell,
17

Phoenix Program,
40

Pincus, Walter,
209
,
257

Pinochet, Augusto,
2
–3,
19
,
108
–10

Pinter, Harold,
243

plausible deniability,
102
–3

plebians,
62
–64

Plutarch,
56
,
67

Poindexter, John M.,
103
,
256

Poland,
52
,
94
,
112
,
123
–24,
143
,
148
–49,
155