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“civilizing mission,” 71–72, 75–76

civil liberties, 267

Clarke, Richard A., 34, 99, 120

Clarke Orbit, 238

“clash of civilizations,” 46

class struggle, 62

Claudius, emperor of Rome, 69–70

Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, 68

Clinton, Bill, 34, 96, 99, 119–20, 122–23, 142–43, 181, 194, 210, 213, 215, 220, 235, 248, 255, 275

Clinton v. New York , 258

CNN Airport Channel, 239

Cockburn, Patrick, 31

Cohen, Nick, 137

Cold War, 17, 20, 35, 50, 82, 94, 111, 118, 135, 230, 274–75

Cole , USS, attack on, 123, 125

Coleman, Dan, 121

Coll, Steve, 98, 112–13, 117

collateral damage, 24–33, 121, 225

Colombia, 164–65

Colossus (Ferguson), 80

Comalapa military base (El Salvador), 165

Combatant Status Review Tribunals, 267

“comfort women,” 24, 121

“command responsibility,” 39–40

Commerce Department, 253, 263

Commission on Review of Overseas Military Facility Structure, 137

Commission to Assess United States

National Security Space Management and Organization (Rumsfeld report of 2001), 213–15, 241

Common Aero Vehicle (CAV), 209

communism, 16, 82, 84, 111, 164

Computer Sciences Corporation, 257

concentration camps, 86

Condor Years, The (Dinges), 108

Congo/Zaire, 3, 19

Congressional Budget Office, 212

Congressional Research Service, 276

Conrad, Joseph, 45, 76, 78

conscience, lack of, 21–22

Constantine, emperor of Rome, 55

Constitutional Convention of 1787, 16. See also U.S. Constitution

consuls, Roman, 61–62, 66

containment, 148, 274

“Contract with America,” 212

Contras. See Iran-Contra; Nicaragua

Contreras, Manuel, 108–9

Convention on the Presence of Foreign

Forces in the Federal Republic of Germany (1954), 171

Cook, Robin, 14–15, 100

Cooperative Security Locations (CSLs, “lily pads”), 147–48, 153, 155, 164–70

Coors family, 212

Copper Green SAP, 40–41

Coriolanus (Shakespeare), 56

Corona spy satellites, 216

Corriere della Sera (newspaper), 154, 155

corruption, 59, 229–31, 259–68

Council of Europe, 123

Council on Foreign Relations Study Group on Space Weapons, 217–18

Counter-intelligence Field Activity (C1FA), 256–57

counternarcotics flights, 165

“counterspace operations,” 215–16

coups d’état, 20, 106–8, 250

Coyle, Philip, 210, 223, 227

Craig, Larry, 262

Crewdson, John, 128

crime, military bases and, 175–76, 178–93, 198, 206–7

Crisis and Leviathan (Higgs), 277

Cross, Suzanne, 66

cruise missiles, 218, 234

Cuba, 3, 19–20, 94, 96, 102–3, 105, 163. See also Guantanamo Bay

Cuidad del Este (Paraguay), 166–67

Cunningham, Randy “Duke,” 260–61

Curacao military base, 148, 165

current account deficits, 270–71

Curtis, John, 48, 52

Dahlgren, Hans, 128

Daily American (Italian newspaper), 106

Dakar military base (Senegal), 147–48

DalBello, Richard, 238

Daoud, Sardar Mohammed, 111

Darby, Joseph M., 22

Darnell, Daniel, 239

Darwinism, 76, 79

data mining, 251, 256–57

Davis, Mike, 78, 83

death squads, 121

deBlois, Bruce M., 215

decoys, 223–25, 228

Defense Appropriation bills, 149, 258–60, 264–66, 270, 276–77

defense budget, 9–10, 17, 115, 229–31, 260–61, 264, 276–77

Defense Contract Audit Agency, 230

defense contractors, 210, 212–15, 232, 242, 260–62, 264–65, 271, 274

Defense Department (DOD, Pentagon), 4, 9, 15, 19–21, 69, 102, 135, 200

budget of, 7–8, 10, 229–32, 264, 276–77, 275–78

corruption and, 260–61, 264–65

intelligence and, 94, 136, 256–57

Iraq and, 15, 47, 49–50, 99–100, 158, 160

military bases inventory of, 5–6, 138–41, 139

overseas bases and, 143–51, 155–56, 167–68, 171–72, 178, 201–4

Pax American and, 58

power of, 20–21, 71

space weaponry, missile defense and, 211–14, 218, 227–28, 238

torture and, 38, 44–45, 258

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), 26, 33, 44, 91, 99, 178

Defense Science Board Task Force on Strategic Communication (September 2004 report), 47

defense spending, 5, 9–10, 17, 115, 229–32, 260–62, 264–65, 271–78

“defense transformation” program, 143–45, 148–51, 195

DeLay, Tom, 261–63

Delta Force, 40

democracy

imperialism and, 55–56, 62, 70, 77, 88–89

threats to, in U.S., 9–14, 17–19, 21–22, 60, 249, 278–79

Democratic Party, 92, 255, 262

Denmark, 131

depleted-uranium ammunition, 197

deportation hearings, secret, 249

Depression, 271, 273–74

Der Monat (German newspaper), 106

desk murderers, 21–23, 45

detainees, 38, 249, 251, 266–67. See also prisoners of war

Detainee Treatment Act (2005), 258–59

Diamond, Larry, 158–59

dictatorship, 19, 152

possibility of, in U.S., 14, 267–69, 278

Diego Garcia (military base), 36, 124, 147

Diem, Ngo Dinh, 250

DINA. See Chilean Army Directorate of National Intelligence

Dinges, John, 108

Directorate of Intelligence (DI), 93–94, 101

Directorate of Operations (DO), 93, 96, 101, 114

Director of National Intelligence, CIA replaced by, 135

Disney World, 6

Djibouti (military base), 147, 166

Dobbs, Michael, 214

dollar, value of, 271

Dolman, Everett, 215–16

Domenici, Pete, 265

domestic surveillance, 94, 250–51, 254–57, 266

Dominican Republic, 94, 163

Donnelly, Thomas, 148

Doolittle, John, 261

Dora Farms compound bombing, 33

Dower, John, 76

Dratel, Joshua, 39

driving accidents, military bases and, 6, 174–75, 182, 190

drugs, 5, 77, 83, 110–11, 117, 126, 165, 167, 182

Duarte Frutos, Nicanor, 168

Duelfer, Charles, 99

dugong, 195

Dulles, Allen, 95, 136

Dulles, John Foster, 136

Dutch Empire, 279

Dyer, Reginald “Rex,” 79

DynCorp, 165

earmarks, 115, 229, 260, 262, 264–65

Earth Institute, 33

East Asia, 78, 81, 143, 178–79, 182, 199, 201, 207

Eastern Europe, 36, 157, 174

East Germany, 172

economy

defense spending and, 5, 8, 17, 138, 269–79

imperialism and, 77–78, 80–85

Ecuador, 94, 164–66, 169–70, 176

Ecuadoran Congress, 166

Eddie Bauer company, 263

Education Department, 263

Efron, Sonni, 15

Egypt, 9, 36, 74, 78, 87, 94, 112, 116, 122–125, 128–35

Ehmann, Amy, 155

Eichmann, Adolf, 21–22, 34

Eichmann in Jerusalem (Arendt), 21

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 18, 95, 103, 136, 216

elections

campaign contributions and, 242, 259, 261, 269

Founding Fathers and, 15–17

imperialism and, 88

of 2000, 143

of 2004, 8, 33, 101, 144, 199, 255, 261

Elkins, Caroline, 86

Ellsberg, Daniel, 246

EloyAlfaro Air Base (Ecuador), 165

El Salvador, 3, 112, 164–65

Encounter (British newspaper), 106

Endangered Species Act, 149

Energy Department, 7, 263, 276

Entebbe International Airport (military base), 148

environmental pollution, 6, 145, 149, 172–74, 194–95, 204

Equatorial Guinea, 148

Erato (mythic figure), 10

Essex , USS (amphibious assault ship), 198

Eucom, 61

eugenics, 76

euphemisms, 120–21

Euripides, 68

European Convention on Human Rights, 123

European Parliament, 123