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Herodotus, 57

Hersh, Seymour, 37, 40

Hezbollah, 167

Higgs, Robert, 277

high value targets (HVTs), 32–33

Hill, James, 167

Hindu-Muslim conflict, 87–88

Hirohito, emperor of Japan, 201

Hispanic magazine , 44

Historia Universal de la Destruction de los Libras (Marquez), 49

Histories (Herodotus), 57

History of Rome (Livy), 57–58

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Gibbon), 55

Hitchens, Theresa, 215, 239, 240

Hitler, Adolf, 79, 273

Holland, Tom, 54, 57–60, 62, 64–65, 67

Homeland Security Department, 276

Honduras, 164–65, 176

Honeywell, 262

Hoover, J. Edgar, 247

Hornberger, Jacob, 27

Hosenball, Mark, 125

Housing and Urban Development Department, 263

“How Not to Catch a Terrorist” (Scheuer letter) , 99

Hubble Telescope, 218, 237

Hughes, Harold E., 103

Hughes-Ryan Act (1974), 102–3

“Humane Treatemnt of al-Qaeda and Taliban Detainees” (Yoo memorandum), 36–37

humanitarian imperialism, 73

Human Rights First, 259

Human Rights Watch, 124

Hungary, 94

Hunter, Duncan, 260–62

Huntington, Stuart A., 40–41

Huntsville, Alabama, 232

Hussein, king of Jordan, 94

Hussein, Saddam, 26–28, 32–33, 52, 87, 98–101, 143, 157, 160–61, 163, 214, 232

Hutchison, Kay Bailey, 149–50, 186

Hypervelocity Rod Bundles, 209

I, Claudius (Graves), 69

Ibrahim, Izzat, 32

ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles), 218, 220–23, 226–28, 231

Russian Topol-M, 228–29

Soviet SS-9, 97–98

ideology, 82

“of extermination,” 76

Ignatieff, Michael, 73–74

Iha, Yoichi, 196

“illegal combatants,” 37

illegal imprisonment, 8

illegal orders, obedience to, 269

impeachment powers, 16

Imperial Hubris (Scheuer), 99

imperialism. See also American empire; British Empire

administrative massacres and, 75

economic justification for, 77–78, 80–85

racial justification for, 75–78

Roman Republic destroyed by, 55, 59–60, 63–67, 70

imperial presidency. See presidential power

Inamine, Keiichi, 174, 181–83, 186, 189–91, 198

Incan civilization, 76

Incirlik Air Base (Turkey), 156

Independent (London), 31, 49, 275

India, 71–72, 77–84, 87–88, 116, 148, 236, 270, 278

Indian Congress Party, 88

Indian Muslim League, 88

Indian Mutiny, 81

Indochina, 85

Indonesia, 3, 19, 94, 104, 147

Integrated Global Presence and Basing Strategy. See Global Posture Review

intelligence

CIA and, 93–94, 135–36

fabricated or suppressed, 95–102

9/11 attacks and, 95, 98

State Department and, 21

intelligence agencies. See also specific agencies

competition among, 95

power of, 20–21

secret budgets of, 9–10

Intelligence Oversight Act (1980), 250

Intelligence Wars (Powers), 256

Intelsat I “Early Bird,” 238

Interior Department, 263

International Committee of the Red Cross, 43, 45, 124

International Criminal Court (ICC), 145, 164, 169, 191

International Islamic Front for lihad, 118, 122–23

international law, 8, 25, 27, 34–37, 43–44, 87, 102, 123, 191, 241, 243, 251

International Military Education and Training, 151

International Monetary Fund, 164

International Space Station, 218, 237

International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT), 105

Internet, 9, 125, 127

Inter Press News Service, 168

Iquitos, Peru, 165

Iran, 2, 5, 15, 48, 93–94, 104, 110–11, 158, 225

Iran, Shah of, 2, 19, 111

Iran-Centra scandal, 103–4, 113, 163–65, 248–49, 256

Iraq, 87, 91, 94. See also Gulf War of 1991; Iraq war and occupation

ancient, 46–47, 49

sanctions and, 3, 25–29

Iraq Body Count, 32

Iraq Confidential (Ritter), 92

Iraqi Interior Ministry, 29, 50

Iraqi Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments, 47

Iraqi National Library and Archives, 47, 49

Iraqi Oil Ministry, 46, 50–51

Iraqi Republican Guard, 161

Iraqiyun (Baghdad), 29

“Iraq’s Continuing Program for Weapons of Mass Destruction” (NIE of October 1, 2002), 98–99

Iraq Survey Group, CIA, 99

Iraq war and occupation (2003-), 5–10, 19, 21–25, 27, 36, 46, 123–24, 153–54, 156, 164, 178, 191, 199, 201, 203–4, 243, 278, 279

cost of, 7, 59, 275–77

election of lanuary 2005 and, 95

insurgents and, 29–30

intelligence and, 5, 23, 98–100

looting and, 23, 45–53

military bases and, 7, 140–43, 153–63, 188

reconstruction of, 15

Rumsfeld strategy and, 143

space war and, 232

torture and, 5, 8, 21–23, 35, 38, 41–45

“Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities” (DIA document, 1991), 26

Irbil military base (Iraq), 163

Irish famine, 81

Ishaqi massacre, 29

Ishihara, Shintaro, 190–91

Ishtar Gate, 52

Islamabad CIA station, 100, 113

Islamists (mujahideen), 2, 4, 111–13, 115–19, 122, 131, 152

Israel, 3, 116, 140, 158, 227, 236

Italian Christian Democratic Party, 94

Italy, 6, 48, 85, 104, 123, 131–35, 142–43, 145, 154–55

Jackson, Derrick, 29

Jackson, Henry M. “Scoop,” 211

Jackson, Robert H., 253

Jacobi, Derek, 69

Jamaat-e-lslami, 112, 132

Jamail, Dahr, 30

Japan, 8, 157, 178, 186, 198–201, 207, 219, 271, 274–75, 279

military bases in, 142–43, 145, 150, 171–207

WW II and, 24, 39–40, 73, 76, 83–85, 121, 199–200, 279

Japanese Americans, 244

Japanese constitution, 199, 203

Japanese Defense Agency, 197–98, 204

Japanese Diet, 181, 196, 201

Japanese Liberal Democratic Party, 94, 181, 186, 196, 205

Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 173, 185, 192–93, 197–98

Japanese Ministry of Justice, 192–93

Japanese National Police Agency, 192

Japanese SOFA, 174, 176, 178–207

Japanese Supreme Court, 188

Japan-U.S. Interim Agreement of 2005, 204–5

Japan-U.S. negotiations

of 2003, 191–93

of 2004–5, 202–5

Japan-U.S. Security Treaty (1960), 171–72, 178–80, 186, 202–4, 206

Javits, Jacob, 265

Jay, John, 59

Jefferson, Thomas, 17

Jenkins, Simon, 4

Jerusalem, 58

Jewel in the Crown, The (Scott), 80

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 80

Jin, Lu, 189

John Paul II, Pope, 169

Johnson, Loch K., 93, 95, 102

Johnson, Lyndon B., 90, 95, 245

Johnson County Airport (North Carolina), 128

Johnson Space Center (Texas), 219

Joint Chiefs of Staff, 41, 116, 180

Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM), 236

Jonsson, Kjell, 129

Jordan, 9, 36, 48, 94, 123–25, 128, 141

Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 56

Justice Department, 36, 247, 251–52, 263, 267

Kabul, Afghanistan, military base, 124, 143

Kadena Air Base (Japan), 145, 173, 178–79, 182–83, 190, 194

Kaiserslautern (K-town, Germany), 155

Kalecki, Micha, 273

Kalla Fakta (Cold Facts) (TV program), 128

Kanagawa, Japan, 173, 202, 205, 207

Kandahar, Afghanistan, 124

Karachi Airport, 127

Karakak wedding attack, 31–32

Karimov, Islam, 152–53

Karp, Jonathan, 275–76

Karpinski, Janis L., 43, 45

Karzai, Hamid, 32

Kashmir, 87, 116

Kassebaum, Nancy, 265

Katzenstein, Peter, 157

Kawaguchi, Yoriko, 185, 190

Kawakami, Hiroyuki, 187

KBR (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root), 7, 140, 159–61