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European police authority, 131

European Space Agency, 235–37

European Union, 235

Everitt, Anthony, 56, 61–63, 65–67

Executive Orders

11905 (on assassinations), 250

13233 (on Presidential Records Act), 248

secret (on FISA), 255–57, 266

exoatmospheric kill vehicle (EKV), 222–28

“Exterminate All the Brutes” (Lindqvist), 76

extraconstitutional centers of power, 20–21

extraordinary renditions, 36, 38, 102, 104, 119–35, 152, 268

extraterritoriality, 172

Faisal II, king of Iraq, 46

Fallujah, 15, 29, 32, 33, 46

“false flag” agents, 106

Falwell, Jerry, 4

Farber, Dan, 252

Fast, Barbara, 40

Federal Aviation Administration, 125

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 37, 42–43, 104, 109, 121–23, 168, 246–47, 254

federal courts (judiciary branch), 15–16, 20, 60, 186, 246–47, 266–69

Federal Election Commission, 261

federalism, 16

Federalist Papers, 59

Federation of American Scientists, 18

Fein, Bruce, 250–51

Feinstein, Dianne, 149, 150

Feith, Douglas, 99–100, 144, 149

Feldman, Noah, 249, 259

Ferguson, Niall, 71, 74–75, 77, 79–87

Fifth Corps, 44

Fifth Air Force, 202

Financial Times , 71

First Armored Division, 141, 153

First Infantry Division, 141, 153

First Corps, 202

first-strike capability, 97–98

FISA court, 254–56

Fisk, Robert, 31, 49

Flanigan, Timothy, 38

Flynn, Michael, 165

Foley, Brian, 266, 267

Foner, Eric, 75, 76

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), U.N., 28

“force projection,” 6

Ford, Gerald, 246, 249–50

Foreign Affairs , 167

Foreign Assistance Act (1974), 102

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA, 1978), 254–56, 266

Foreign Operations bill (2004), 263–64

Forell.Paul, 128, 129

Forster, E. M., 80

Fort Benning (Georgia), 163

Fort Bragg (North Carolina), 128

Fort Carson (Colorado), 142

Fort Greely (Alaska), 210, 222

Fort Lewis (Washington State), 202

Forward Operation Sites (FOSs), 146–48, 153, 155, 159–60, 164

Founding Fathers, 15–16, 55, 59, 88–89, 267–68

Fourth Amendment, 254

Fourth Infantry Division, 162

Fox, Vicente, 164

Fox News , 23

Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, 167

France, 48, 54–55, 63, 73, 85, 148, 236, 279

Frankfurter, Felix, 253

Frankfurt International Airport, 156

Franklin, Benjamin, 15–16, 89

Franks, Tommy, 14–15, 30

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA, 1966, 1974), 42, 44, 245–48, 250

freedom. See also democracy

free market and, 82, 84–85

of religion, 152

“Free Major Brown” Web site, 187–88

free market, 82–85, 164

FreeRepublic.com Web site, 125–26

free trade, 77, 81–85

Frei, Eduardo, 105–6

French Foreign Legion, 147

Fried, Daniel, 153

Friedman, Thomas, 3, 80–84

From the Shadows (Gates), 90

Fukuchi Dam, 173

Fukuda.Yasuo, 183

Fukuoka High Court, 188

FuldaGap, 142

“full spectrum dominance,” 138

Furukawa, Teijiro, 193

Futenma Marine Corps Air Station, (Japan), 193–98, 204–6

Future of Freedom Foundation, 27

Gabe, Masaaki, 191, 205

Gabon, 148

Gaffney, Frank, Jr., 211–13

Galaxy IV satellite, 238–39

Galileo navigation system, 235–36

Gap, the, 263

Garfield, Richard, 28, 29

Garlasco, Marc, 33

Garmisch facility (Germany), 6, 155

Gamer, Jay, 50

Gates, Robert M., 90, 96, 110

Gaul, 63, 66, 74

General Dynamics, 262, 264

General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, The (Keynes) , 271–72

Geneva Accords of 1988, 117

Geneva Conventions, 4–5, 8–9, 23, 25, 27, 36–37, 43–44

genocide, 29, 86

George III, king of Great Britain, 16

George Washington, USS (aircraft carrier), 202

Georgia (former Soviet state), 20, 152

geosynchronous or geostationary orbit (GEO) satellites, 237–39

German Social Democratic Party, 154

Germany, 14, 73, 85, 123, 141–43, 145, 149–50, 153–57, 174, 176, 178, 201, 269, 274

Nazi, 21–22, 121, 273

unification of, 157

Ghana, 148

“ghost detainees,” 124–25

Ghost Wars (Coll), 112

Gibbon, Edward, 55, 57, 67

Gibson, McGuire, 49

Gilman, Benjamin, 262

Gingrich, Newt, 212

Ginowan, Japan, 193–98

Girard, William S., 175–76, 181

Glina, Marsela, 132

global communications, 141

global Echelon eavesdropping system, 156

Global Hawk UAV, 233

globalization, 77, 80–85

Global Positioning System (GPS), 214, 223, 232–36

Global Posture Review (Integrated Global Presence and Basing Strategy), 143–45, 148–52, 154–57

Global Security Organization, 51, 160, 161

Global Strike Force, 209

Glonas navigation system, 235

God of Small Things, The (Roy), 80

Goldberg, Jeffrey, 167

Golove, David, 257–58

Gonzales, Alberto, 23, 33, 38, 44, 251

Goodman, Melvin A., 91

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 116

Gordon, Joy, 27–28

Gore, Al, 259

Goss, Porter J., 90–92, 100–102, 135

Government Accountability Office (GAO), 227, 277

GPS. See Global Positioning System

Gracchus, Tiberius, 66

Grafenwöhr training area (Germany), 155

Graham, Bradley, 160, 163

Graham, Lindsey, 262, 267

Graham, R. B. Cunninghame, 78

Graves, Robert, 69

Gray, John, 82

Great Britain, 16, 27, 28, 55, 100, 123, 140, 152, 163, 236, 240. See also British Empire

Great Leap Forward, 84

Great Transformation, The (Polanyi), 83

Greece, 3, 19, 94, 104, 114

ancient, 47, 63, 78

Greenberg, Karen, 39

Greenpeace, 195

Green Zone, 160–61

Gregson, Wallace C., 189

Grenada, 19, 163

Gronlund, Lisbeth, 227, 239

Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, 220–28

Guam, 20, 164, 204, 206

Guantanamo Bay (Cuba), 8, 34–35, 37, 40–45, 123–24, 181, 246, 266–67, 278

“Guantánamo Bay Express,” 127

Guantánamo (Rose) , 43

Guardian , 1, 49–50

Guatemala, 3, 94, 104, 112, 163

guerrilla wars, 94

Gulfstream jets (CIA), 125–28

Gulf War of 1991, 26–27, 47, 49–50, 163, 227

Gumbel, Andrew, 275

habeas corpus, 186, 244, 266

Habermas, Jiirgen, 272

Habiger, Eugene, 210

Haditha massacre, 29

Hadley, Stephen J., 92

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property (1954), 50

Haig, Alexander M., 19

Haiti, 94

Haldeman, Bob, 92

Hall, Keith, 215

Halliburton Corp., 7, 140

Hailidav, Denis, 29

Hamas, 167

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld , 267

Hamilton, Alexander, 16, 59

Hamilton, Edith, 243–44

Hammer, Joshua, 159, 160

Hannibal, 58

Hart, Howard, 111–12

Hartford , USS (nuclear submarine), 154

Hartung, William D., 212, 230

Harvard School of Public Health, report of May 1991, 27

Hashimoto, Ryutaro, 181, 194

Hayashida, Soichi, 184

Hayden, Michael, 92, 135

Haynes, William J., 38

Hazar Qadam, civilian deaths at, 31

Health and Human Services Department, 263

Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 76, 78

Heat and Dust (Jhabvala), 80

Heaven’s Command (Morris), 54

Hecksher, Henry, 106–7

Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin, 113, 117–18

Hellfire missile, 21

Helms, Richard, 92, 95–97, 104–7

Henriques, Diana B., 146

Henry, Patrick, 17

Herbert, Bob, 268