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Keith, Damon, 249

Keller, Bill, 255

Kelley, Victor, 186

Kennedy, John F., 95–96, 103, 105, 216

Kenya, 79, 85–87, 121, 279

Kerry, John, 101

Kessler Effect, 217

Keynes, John Maynard, 271–72

Keynesianism, 271–73

Khartoum plant attack, 119

Khomeini, Ayatollah, 2

Khost, Afghanistan, 124

Khostcamp, 118–19

kidnapping. See extraordinary renditions Kikuyu people, 79, 85–87

Kin, Okinawa, 189

kinetic kill vehicles, 218

Kipling, Rudyard, 74

Kirkpatrick, Jeane, 75

Kirkuk.Iraq, 162

Kissinger, Henry, 54–55, 92, 94, 96–97, 104, 106

Kitty Hawk, USS (aircraft carrier), 202, 207

Klein, Naomi, 38

Koh, Harold Hongju, 39

Kohat prison (Pakistan), 124

Kohn, Jerome, 21, 22

Koizumi, Junichiro, 185, 192–93, 198–203, 205–7

Korea, 76

Korean Air Lines, 234

Korean War, 20, 145, 176, 182, 253

Kornbluh, Peter, 107, 108

Kosovo, military base in, 140, 161

Krieble, Helen, 212

Kurds, 28, 87

Kuwait, 26, 28, 48, 148, 150, 158–60

Kwajalein Missile Range (Marshall Islands), 222

Kwiatkowski, Karen, 99, 158

Kyle, Jon, 220

Kyrgyzstan, 6, 140, 147, 151–52

labor, 81, 175, 263, 272

Labor Department, 263

Lady, Robert Seldon, 131, 133–34

Lafontaine, Oskar, 154

Laird, Melvin, 97

laissez-faire, 82, 84

La Maddalena military base (Sardinia), 154

Lancet , 28, 32

Langewiesche, William, 29–30

Laos, 94, 126

Latin America, 101, 147, 163–70

Lawless, Richard P., 192, 202, 204

“law of the flag,” 172

Lebanese immigrants, 166–67

Lebanon, 9, 63, 122

Lee, Barbara, 13

Lee, Burton J., Ill, 45

legislative branch, 15–16, 267–68

Lenin, Vladimir, 5, 83

“Lesser Evils” (Ignatieff), 73

Letelier, Orlando, 109

Levi Strauss & Co., 263

Lewinsky, Monica, 119

Lewis, Jeffrey, 240

Lewis, Jerry, 261

Lexus and the Olive Tree, The (Friedman), 80

liberal imperialism, 77

Liberia, 148

Library of Korans, 47, 49

Libya, 123

Lieven, Anatol, 270

Lincoln, Abraham, 244

Lincoln’s Constitution (Farber), 252

Lindemans, Micha F., 11

Linder, Sven, 128

Lindh, John Walker, 34–35

Lindorff, Dave, 35

Lindqvist, Sven, 76, 79

Livy, 56–58, 60

Liz Claiborne, 263

lobbyists, 260–65, 273

Locke, John, 77

Lockheed Martin, 212–13, 215, 225, 227, 257, 264

London Times, 4, 123, 161 “lone superpower,” 142

Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad, The (Polk and Schuster), 48

Lord, Lance, 215, 232

Lord & Taylor, 263

Los Angeles Times , 15, 35, 71, 263

low Earth orbits (LEO), 216–19, 237, 241

Lucas, George, 209

Macedonia, 63

Macke, Richard C., 180

Madam Secretary (Albright), 25–26

Madison, James, 16, 18, 20, 59, 244–45

Mahle, Melissa Boyle, 100

Mahuad, Jamil, 166

Maier, Charles S., 77

Main Operating Bases (MOBs), 145–46, 148, 153–54

Malayan Emergency (1948-60), 4, 85

Malaysia, 85, 94, 236

Mali, 148

Mallowan, Max, 52

Malthus, Thomas Robert, 76

Manas Air Base (Kyrgyzstan), 6, 147, 151, 153

Manhattan Project, 10

Mansfield Park (Austen), 75

Manta base (Ecuador), 165–66, 169

Maoris, 75

Mao Zedong, 84, 252

Marcos, Ferdinand, 19

Margolis, Eric, 87

Mariana Islands, 263

Marine Civil Affairs Bureau, 49

Marine Corps, 17, 51–53, 178, 184–89, 204

Marine Mammal Protection Act, 149

Mariscal Estigarribia, Paraguay, 169

Marius, Caius, 65–66

Marquez, Humberto, 49

Marshall, John, 176

Marshall, Joshua Micah, 72

Marshall, P. J., 79, 80, 85

Martin, Kate, 249

Martinez, Mel, 262

Marxism, 81–83

MasraTora Prison, 130

Massimino, Elisa, 259

Masterpiece Theater (TV series), 73

Mau Mau Uprising, 85–87

Mauritania, 148

Mauritius, 94

Maxwell Air Force Base (Alabama), 216

Mayan civilization, 76

McCain, John, 258–59, 266

McCone, John, 105

McCoy, Alfred W., 35, 267

McGaffin, John, 114

McGovern, Ray, 98–99

McGrory, Daniel, 161

McGuiness, Mary Ellen, 128

McLaughlin, John, 135

McNamara, Robert, 103

Medea (Euripides), 68

media, 17, 19, 30, 33, 269

Meiji, emperor of Japan, 200

Mein Kamp/(Hitler), 79

Mercosur agreement, 169

Mesopotamia, 36, 87

Mexico, 83–84, 164

Mi-24

Hind helicopter, 116–17

microsatellites, 240

Middle East, 142–43, 147, 158–63, 203–4

Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, (Romania), 155

militarism, 5, 88–89, 137, 141

Constitution and, 13–21

defined, 19–20

military Keynesianism and, 273–74

Rome and, 55, 57, 59, 64, 66, 70

space and, 209–10

military bases

domestic, 17, 137–38, 141–42, 146, 149–50

number and cost of, 5–6, 10

space and, 210

military bases, overseas, 3, 128, 257

costs of, 150–51, 155–56

culture of, 146

domestic bases vs., 138

empire of, 71, 278

Iraq and, 157–63

Japan and, 171–207

neoconservative program to transform military and, 142–45, 148–50

number and size of, 5–6, 10, 138–42 139, 178

Paraguay and, 163–70

protocols to establish, 144–45

relationships with host countries and, 6–7, 151–57

SOFAs for, 171–75

types of, 145–49

Military Construction Appropriations Act, 7, 150, 276

military courts, 177

military-industrial complex, 9, 15, 71, 89, 209, 210, 229, 242, 260, 264–65, 269, 273

military intelligence, 34–35

“military Keynesianism,” 138, 271–79

military pensions, 276

Miller, Geoffrey, 34, 40, 42–44

Milstar satellites, 238

MIRVs (multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles), 97

Miscik, Jami A., 101

Missile Defense Agency (MDA), 218, 222, 224–27

missile defense program (NMD), 199–200, 211–14, 220–33, 242, 265

commission on (Rumsfeld report of 1998), 212–14

“missile gap,” 216

Misty stealth satellites, 240

Mobutu, SeseSeko, 19

Moffitt, Ronni Karpen, 109

Mohammed, Jamil Qasim Saeed, 125

Mondale, Walter, 246

money laundering, 110, 167

Montesquieu, 16, 55

Moore, Mike, 232

“Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR)” commands, 6

Morales, Evo, 164, 166

“Morbidity and Mortality Among Iraqi Children” (Garfield), 28–29

Morocco, 9, 123–24, 148, 236

Moron Air Base (Spain), 156

Morris, Gouverneur, 15

Morris, Jan, 54

Moseley, T. Michael, 33

Moss, John, 245

Mossadeq, Mohammad, 2

Mosul, Iraq, 42, 48, 162

Mountbatten, Edwina, Lady, 80

Mountbatten, Lord, 88

Moyers, Bill, 230, 245, 261–62, 264

MRVs (multiple reentry vehicles), 97

Muhammad (prophet), 4

Murdoch, Rupert, 38

Murphy, Frank, 39–40

Murray, Craig, 152

Murtha, John P., 260

Muslim Brotherhood, 112, 117, 130

Muslims, 4, 9, 47, 76, 167. See also Islamists

Myers, Richard, 23, 34, 40–42, 180

Myers v. United States , 253–54

My Lai massacre, 29

MZM Inc., 260–61

Nabu, Temple of, 52

Nago, Japan, 194

Nagy, Thomas, 26

Nairobi embassy bombing, 118–19, 122–23

Najibullah, Mohammad, 117

Nakamine, Victoria, 184–85, 187–88

Napoleon Bonaparte, 70

“narcoterrorism,” 164

NASA, 216, 219

Nasiriyah., 51

Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 87