Read The Sorrows of Empire Online
Authors: Chalmers Johnson
Tags: #General, #Civil-Military Relations, #History, #United States, #Civil-Military Relations - United States, #United States - Military Policy, #United States - Politics and Government - 2001, #Military-Industrial Complex, #United States - Foreign Relations - 2001, #Official Secrets - United States, #21st Century, #Official Secrets, #Imperialism, #Military-Industrial Complex - United States, #Military, #Militarism, #International, #Intervention (International Law), #Law, #Militarism - United States
In the course of writing, I received much editorial help and many useful comments from Sheila K. Johnson, my companion for forty-six years and herself a gifted writer and intellectual. I owe a great debt to Tom Engelhardt, my editor, who has himself been deeply involved in trying to find the analogies and precedents that might throw light on the suicide of the United States as a democracy. Sandra Dijkstra, my agent, and her associate, Babette Sparr, worked tirelessly to see that my ideas got a public hearing. Others who have drawn my attention to aspects of imperialism and militarism I did not know about or might have overlooked include Kozy Amemiya, Maricler and Alfredo Antognini, Walden Bello, Steve Clemons, Patrick Hatcher, Barry Keehn, Brian Loveman, Thomas Royden, Odete Sousa, Yoshihiko Nakamoto, and the editors of antiwar.com.
Page numbers in boldface refer to maps and tables
Abacha, Sani,
274
ABC-TV network,
113
Aboimov, I. P.,
69
Abraham, Spencer,
175
Abrams, Elliott,
228
Abu Sayyaf (“terrorist gang”),
213
Adams, Brooks,
192
Adams, John Quincy,
190
–91
Afghanistan,
251
military recruitment ads and,
113
–14
private military training and,
140
–41
Taliban takeover of,
177
–80
war of 2001,
11
,
13
,
26
–27,
62
,
67
–68,
70
,
72
,
79
,
80
,
88
,
108
–9,
115
,
118
,
146
,
176
,
179
–82,
185
,
214
,
221
,
226
–29,
233
,
236
,
241
,
247
–48,
280
,
286
,
310
Agency for International Development,
64
“Agreed Framework” (North Korea),
89
Aguinaldo, Emilio,
43
Ahmed al Jaber Air Base (Kuwait),
243
–44
Air America (CIA airline),
134
Air Force Academy rape scandal,
105
–6
Air Force Communications Agency,
241
Air Force Reserve,
102
Air Mobility Command,
189
Air National Guard,
102
Albania,
300
Albright, Madeleine,
90
al-Dhafra Air Base (UAE),
249
–50
Alexander’s Gas & Oil Connections,
180
Algeria,
30
Ali al Salem Air Base (Kuwait),
244
al-Jazeera (cable-news network),
246
–47
al-Musnana Air Base (Oman),
251
–52
U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia and,
241
Altair Voyager
(oil tanker),
173
Amboinese,
131
American Journal of Industrial Medicine,
105
America’s Army
(computer game),
97
–98
Amnesty International,
167
Amritsar Massacre (1919),
70
Andaman Islands,
70
Andrews, Evander,
248
Anglo-Persian Oil Company,
220
Annapolis,
104
Ansar al Islam,
232
Apocalypse Now
(film),
112
Appy, Christian,
60
Arabian-American Oil Company (Aramco),
218
–19
Arab-Israeli War of 1967,
224
Arbenz, Jacobo,
34
Area Support Groups (ASGs),
196
–97
Arizona National Guard,
175
armed forces,
32
,
97
–113,
134
.
See also
standing army in peacetime
active reserves,
102
–4
DU ammunition and,
100
–102
Iraq war of 2003,
283
Armed Forces Recreational Center for Europe,
197
Armor Holdings,
140
black programs,
118
Army Appropriations Bill (1901),
41
Army Forces Central Command—Kuwait (ARCENT-KU),
147
Army Forces Central Command—Saudi Arabia (ARCENT-SA),
238
Army National Guard,
102
Army Reserve,
102
Art of War, The
(Sun Tzu),
255
Asiatic Squadron,
41
Atlacatl Battalion,
126
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
236
Atlantic Charter (1941),
200
atomic bombs.
See also
nuclear weapons
secrecy and,
12
Atsugi Naval Air Station (Japan),
201
Augustus, emperor of Rome (Octavian),
16
Austin Chronicle,
144
Austo-Hungarian empire,
310
Australia Defense Signals Directorate,
165
Austria,
19
Austro-Hungarian empire,
50
Avant, Deborah,
141
Aviano Air Force Base (Italy),
239
Ayios Nikolaos (Cyprus),
162
Baccus, Rick,
42
Bacevich, Andrew,
67
Bad Aibling Air Force Base (Germany),
162