The Sorrows of Empire (64 page)

Franco, Franciso,
203
–4,
299

Franks, Tommy,
80
,
172
,
182
,
226
,
248
–49

Fraser, Malcolm,
163

Freedom of Information Act,
300

free enterprise,
308
–9.
See also
markets; trade

French East India Company,
31

Friedman, Thomas,
273
–74,
275

From Russia with Love
(Fleming),
11

Fulda, Germany,
195

Galbraith, James K.,
146

Galston, William A.,
22

Gardner, Richard,
63

Garmisch armed forces vacation center (Germany),
5
,
197

Garten, Jeffrey,
268

Gary, Romain,
295

Gates, Robert,
17
,
18

Gaudette, Kurt,
83

Gaul,
15

Gazprom,
179

General Accounting Office (GAO),
118
,
143

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT),
259
,
264
,
269
,
278

General Dynamics,
63
,
119
,
122
,
243

General Electric,
166

General Motors,
167

Geneva Conventions,
42
,
75
,
133

Gentry, John A.,
288
,
289

George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies,
197

Georgia (Central Asia),
174
–76

German Democratic Republic (East Germany),
19

German Federal Republic (West Germany),
18
–19,
34

German Socialist Unity Party (Communist),
19

Germany,
263

Echelon and,
166

economic development in,
262
,
263

imperial,
19
th century,
35
–36,
40
,
42
,
45

Iraq and,
198
,
307

reunification of,
195

U.S. bases in,
8
,
24
,
56
,
154
,
190
,
130
,
195
–98,
215

WW I and,
48
–49,
51

WW II and,
85
,
193
–94,
203
,
257
,
300
,
301
,
310

Gibben, Dave,
144

G. I. Jane
(film),
112

Gingrich, Newt,
228

Glass, Charles,
153

Glennon, Michael,
77

globalization (globalism),
21
,
26
,
81
,
255
–57,
260
–77,
284
,
310

protests vs.,
262
,
272
,
274
–75

Global Security Organization,
243
,
244

Goldfarb, Michael,
196

gold standard,
264
–66

Good Neighbor Policy,
192

Gorbachev, Mikhail,
17
–20,
69
,
258

Gordon, Michael,
20

Grant, Bruce,
142

Great Britain,
221
,
259
,
263
,
265
,
279
.
See also
British Empire

Cold War and,
34

Egypt and,
223
,
242

Gulf War I and,
225
,
238

intelligence,
165
–66,
251
,
303
–4

Iran and,
220

Iraq war and,
232
,
233
,
283
,
304

Persian Gulf and,
217
–22,
244

U.S. bases in,
8
,
56
,
164
–65

WW I and,
48
–50

WW II and,
37
,
194

Greatest Generation
(Brokaw),
113

Greece,
15
,
204
–7,
211

military bases in,
152
,
189
,
204
–5

Green Berets,
11
,
128
,
129
,
131
,
134
,
141

Greeneville,
USS (submarine),
116
–17

Greenland,
34

Greider, William,
214
,
281

Grenada invasion,
114
–15

Griffith, Ron,
141

Group of Eight (G8),
181
,
275

Group of Seven (G7),
276

Guam,
2
,
42
,
189
,
192

Guantanámo Bay (Cuba),
13
,
41
–42,
77
,
189
,
193
,
293
,
295
,
310

Guatemala,
34
,
128
,
192
,
193

Guernica,
222
,
299
–300

Guevara, Che,
30

Gulf of Oman,
250

Gulf of Tonkin,
301

Gulf War Syndrome,
100
–102,
300

“gunboat diplomacy,”
40

Gurkhas,
131
,
134

Hahn airfield (Germany),
194

Haig, Alexander,
53
,
178

Hainan Island spy plane incident,
87
–88,
252

Haiti,
3
,
62
,
72
,
141
,
144
,
169
,
192

Halabja gas attacks of 1988,
225

Haldeman, H. R.,
284

Halibut,
USS (submarine),
163

Halliburton,
140
,
144
–45,
152
,
233
,
308

Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa, king of Bahrain,
245

Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, Sheikh, emir of Qatar,
246
–47

Hamas,
298

Hamdi, Yasir Esam,
293
,
294

Harding, Warren G.,
51

Harris, Jeff,
80

Harvard Law School,
111
–12

Hasan al-Bakr, Ahmad,
224

Hastert, Dennis,
57

Hatcher, Patrick Lloyd,
35

Hawaii,
2
,
42
,
192
–93.
See also
Pearl Harbor

Hay, John,
192

Hayden, Michael V.,
161

Hayes, Rutherford B.,
120

Hearst, William Randolph,
40

hegemony, defined,
29

Hejl, Thomas,
109

Heldman, Kevin,
107

Hellenikon Air Base (Greece),
205

Helms, Richard,
9

Henry VIII, king of England,
295

Hersh, Seymour,
305

Hertle, Hans-Hermann,
19

Herzog, Jésus Silva,
266

Hewlett-Packard,
224

Higgs, Robert,
308
–9

Hill, James T.,
279
–80

Hill&Knowlton,
230
–31

Hindus,
70
,
138

Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
28
,
290

Hispanics,
103
,
104
,
110

Hitler, Adolf,
168
,
206
,
222
,
299

Hmong tribesmen,
134

Hobson, John,
28

Hoffmann, Stanley,
287

Holbrooke, Richard,
74

Hollywood films,
112
–14

Holy Loch (Scotland),
163

Homeland Security, Department of,
122

Honduras,
128
,
192

Honeywell,
224

Hong Kong,
41

Honolulu Advertiser,
116

Howard, John,
283

Hudson’s Bay Company,
31

Hull, Cordell,
52

“humanitarian” aid,
172
,
183

humanitarian interventions,
3
,
21
–22,
71
–72,
124
,
167
,
214
,
284

human rights,
72
,
170
–72,
176
,
180
,
203
,
225

U.S. and foreign military and,
125
–26,
132
,
133
,
136
,
137

Hungary,
19

Hussein, Kamel,
302
–3

Hussein, Saddam,
11
,
101
,
126
–27,
144
,
183
,
217
,
223
–36,
237
,
253
,
283
,
300
,
302

Hyundai Engineering and Construction Company,
179

Iberia,
15

Ibn Saud, king of Saudi Arabia,
218

idealism,
47
,
51

ideology,
61
,
261

“illegal combatants.” See “enemy or illegal combatant”

Illueca, Jorge,
136

impeachment,
306

imperialism (empire)

central political idea of,
257

CIA and,
9
–10

civilian casualties and,
28

Cold War and,
32
–34

colonization and,
29
–30

containment rationale for,
193

continental vs. maritime,
191

decline as result of,
310
–12

defined,
28
–29

democracy threatened by,
13