Read The Sorrows of Empire Online
Authors: Chalmers Johnson
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Seychelles,
221
shah of Iran.
See
Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza, shah of Iran
Shaikh Isa Air Base (Bahrain),
245
–46
Shakespeare, William,
16
Shimkus, John,
111
Shining Path,
264
Shughart, Randy,
133
Sierra Leone,
135
Sigint (signals intelligence) bases,
164
–65
Sikorsky,
279
Simbulan, Roland G.,
213
Sin, Jaime,
212
Singapore,
263
614th Space Intelligence Squadron,
83
Sixteenth Amendment,
46
Slate,
309
Slipchenko, Vladimir,
288
Slovakia,
300
Slovenia,
300
Smith, Adam,
260
SoCal.
See
Standard Oil Company of California
Socony-Vacuum (Mobil),
218
“Soldiers Should Not Be Spying” (Korb and Tepperman),
130
Souda Bay base (Greece),
205
South America,
190
.
See
Latin America;
and specific countries
South Carolina, elections of 1876,
120
SOUTHCOM,
124
Southeast Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO),
209
democracy in,
89
Gulf War I and,
307
U.S.-North Korea tensions and,
89
–95
weapons sales to,
279
South Ossetia (Georgia),
176
Southwestern Asia,
168
sovereignty,
284
Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army,1948–1983
(Rice),
173
Soviet Union.
See
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Soyster, Harry E.,
141
Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS),
162
Space Systems Company (Lockheed),
80
Civil War in,
203
–4
Spangdahlem airfield (Germany),
194
Spartacist revolt,
139
Special Access Programs (SAPs),
118
–19
Special Forces (special operations)
allies and,
130
Baku-Ceyhan pipeline and,
175
–76
CIA displaced by,
126
–30
CINCs and,
124
Djibouti and,
252
El Salvador and,
126
Indonesia and,
137
–38
Iraq war and,
242
number of,
129
Philippines and,
213
-14
as president’s private army,
12
roots of,
123
-24
secret budget for,
118
spouse murders by,
108
SWAT team, proposed,
129
–30
“Special Operations and Joint Forces in Countering Terrorism” (Defense Science Board),
129
Special Operations Command,
129
Sperry,
224
Srebrenica,
75
“stability,” intervention to achieve,
70
stagflation,
259
Standard Oil,
169
Standard Oil of California (SoCal),
217
–18
Standard Oil of New Jersey (Exxon),
218
Star Chamber,
295
Starr, Kenneth,
75
star wars,
61
.
See also
strategic defense initiative
Afghanistan and,
178
declining influence of,
62
Greece and,
206
intelligence and,
9
Pentagon usurps functions of,
123
-26
Steger, Manfred,
260
Stettinius, Edward,
218
Stevens, Ted,
57
Stevenson, Adlai,
302
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI),
63
Stover, Steve,
149
Strategic Air Command,
219
Strategic Assessment 1999
(JCOS),
226
submarines, spy,
163
Sudan,
81
Suetonius,
37
Suez Canal crisis of 1956,
219
Suharto, president of Indonesia,
75
–76
Suid, Lawrence H.,
112
“Summit Communications” (Taiwan),
162
Sun Fun Products,
2
Sun Tzu,
255
Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE),
194
Sweden,
263
Taft, William Howard,
192
military bases and,
152
Talbot, Karen,
281
Iraq and,
231
U.S. support for,
226
Tallil Air Base (Iraq),
234
Tammany Hall,
44
Tapestry Solutions Corporation,
148
“targeted killings,”
291
Halliburton and,
145
technology
telecommunications, interception of,
161
–64
Tengiz oil field,
173
Tepperman, Jonathan D.,
130
terrorism,
20
–21.
See also
“war on terrorism”