The Worth of War (36 page)

McCarthy, Joseph,
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179

McCord, James,
182

McGovern, George,
150
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153

McKitrick, Eric,
100
,
139

McNamara, Robert,
197

McNeill, William,
133

Meigs, Montgomery,
47

Melos (island of),
33
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34

mens rea
requirement,
219

Mexican War,
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51

Meyerhoff, Otto,
31

MGM,
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,
116

Middle East, US military in.
See
Afghanistan War; Iraq War

Miers, Harriet,
205

Milgram, Stanley, and Milgram experiment,
43

military, control of in the United States

congressional control (Madisonian solution),
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46
,
155
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presidential control after 1947,
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63

military conscription,
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move to professional military in the United States,
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68

military forces,
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See also
citizen soldiers

general curriculum of warfare for,
32
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use of mercenaries,
40
,
95
,
97

MINARET, Project (NSA surveillance program),
184
,
185

Ministry of Education (Britain),
125

Ministry of Information (MOI) (Britain),
112

Ministry of Munitions (France),
124

Mischling (person of mixed blood),
25
,
27

Mitchell, Billy,
157

MITRE Corporation,
55

Moctezuma II (Aztec emperor),
23

Moltke, Helmut von (the elder),
46

Mongols use of supply lines,
46

Moniteur
(newspaper),
108

Morgan, J. P.,
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Morgenthau, Henry,
116
,
118

Moriori of the Chatham Islands,
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Morse, Wayne,
153

Moses of Bristol,
51

MPRI (Military Professional Resources Incorporated),
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Mughal empires,
65

Munitions Ministry (Britain),
124

Murchison, Clint,
178

Nanda empire,
33
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34

Napoleon Bonaparte,
19
,
45
,
46
,
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97
,
108
,
135

Napoleon III (emperor of France),
135

National Archives,
196

National Assembly (France),
107
,
108

National Declassification Center (NDC) (US),
196

National Defense Act of 1916 (US),
157

National Defense Act of 1920 (US),
48

National Defense Highway Program (US),
58

National Guard (US),
156
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57

National Health Service (Britain),
125

National Security Act of 1947 (US),
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157
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58
,
161
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181
,
194
,
196

National Security Agency (NSA) (US),
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73
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84
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,
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,
208

National Security Council (NSC) (US),
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,
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,
161

National Security Directives (NSDs) (also known as National Security Presidential Directives and National Security Decision Directives) (US),
161
,
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National Security Letters (NSL),
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National War Aims Committee (NWAC) (Britain),
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national welfare state developing public support for war,
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–
25

Native Americans,
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78
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Navy (US),
156
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157
,
166

Navy Blues
(film),
113

“Navy Way,”
19

Nazism.
See
Germany

Neff, John U.,
9

Nelson, Richard R.,
11

neo-Darwinism,
11

neo-Hobbesians,
211
–
13

neo-Kantians,
211
,
213

neo-Lamarckism,
11

Nepal,
129

Netherlands,
130
,
131

New Deal,
111
,
122

“New Politics” movement of the 1970s (in US),
150
,
153
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154

New York riot in 1863,
149

New York Times
(newspaper),
116
,
182
,
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–
88

New Zealand,
183

9/11 attacks,
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,
215

Nine Years' War,
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33

Nixon, Richard, and his administration,
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79
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205

Nixon v. Administrator of General Services
(US),
202

NKVD (Soviet security service),
41

North American Free Trade Agreement,
160

North Korea,
85
,
143
.
See also
Korean War

Northrop Grumman,
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nuclear weapons,
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atomic bomb,
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Nuremberg Laws of 1935,
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Nye, Gerald,
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Obama, Barack, and his administration,
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observation and dissemination of technology,
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83

Odegard, Peter,
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19

O'Dell, Jack,
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Office of Censorship (US),
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Office of Price Administration (OPA) (US),
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Office of War Information (OWI) (US),
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Official Secrets Act (Britain),
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Ohain, Hans von,
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“Operation CHAOS,”
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“Operation Lusty,”
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Oppenheimer, J. Robert,
31

organization in warfare,
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39

Ottoman empire,
65

Paine, Thomas,
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Pakistan,
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,
199

Palmer Raids against radicals in the United States,
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Paramount,
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Paterson, William,
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Patriot Act of 2001 (US),
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Pauli, Wolfgang,
31

Pearl Harbor attack,
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,
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,
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,
215

Peloponnesian wars,
33

“Pentagon Papers,”
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Pergamon (Greek city-state),
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Perret, Geoffrey,
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,
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Perry, Matthew C.,
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Pershing, John J.,
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,
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Persian empire,
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Persian Gulf War (1990),
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persuasion, government use of,
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Perutz, Max,
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Philadelphia Committee of Privates,
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Philip (king of Macedon),
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Philip II (king of Macedon),
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Pierce, Franklin,
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Pizarro, Francisco,
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planning in warfare,
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“plumbers' squad,”
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policy planning in the United States,
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politics,
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See also
state power impact of FBI on,
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81

new political forces,
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55

secular sources of political magic,
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19

Polk, James K.,
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Pol Pot,
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popular government,
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–
209
,
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governmental transparency necessary for,
191
,
209
(
see also
secrecy in government [US])

protecting citizens from government scrutiny,
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–
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,
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(
see also
surveillance)

requiring citizens be informed,
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Porter, Bruce,
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Pratt and Whitney,
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Pravda
(newspaper),
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“preclusive security,”
35

presidential power (US),
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63
,
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–
67

President's Surveillance Program (PSP) (US),
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,
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PRISM surveillance program of NSA,
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privacy,
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–
75
.
See also
surveillance

private contractors (US),
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67

Progress and Poverty
(George),
9

propaganda,
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23

Protect America Act of 2007 (US),
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“protection racket,” state as,
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–
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Prussia.
See
Germany

Putin, Vladimir,
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Qin Empire,
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racial hierarchy of Nazis as magical thinking,
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–
32

Radio Communications Act of 1912 (US),
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72

Railroad Administration (US),
169

Rainbow, The
(film),
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Raines, Claude,
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RAND Corporation,
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rationality, war as agent of,
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,
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Reagan, Ronald, and his administration,
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Realpolitik,
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Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (1934),
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation (originally War Finance Corporation) (US),
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Reconstruction policies (US),
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52

recruitment in warfare,
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Red Army,
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Red Cross,
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Red Star
(newspaper),
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Reemployment and Retraining Administration (US),
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Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (Germany),
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Reichsbank (Germany),
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religious dogma,
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Republican Party (in US),
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Revenue Act of 1942 (US),
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Revere, Paul,
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reverse engineering,
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reverse technology flows,
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Rhodes (Greek city-state),
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Richard I (king of England),
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Richard III (king of England),
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“Rights of Man” (Paine),
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Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, The
(Kennedy),
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RKO,
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Robertson, Dick,
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Robinson, Edward G.,
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robotics, use of in warfare,
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,
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Rockefeller Foundation,
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Rogers, Ginger,
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Rogers, William,
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Roman Empire,
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