Chalmers Johnson - The Sorrows of Empire - Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic

North Korea and, 88–95

nuclear weapons and, 290–91

oil imports and, 307–8

Pakistan and, 182

“preventive war” and, 5–6, 284–87

Saudi Arabia and, 241–42

Serbia and, 145

South Korea and, 93–95

State of Union address of 2002, 88

State of Union address of 2003, 304

treaties undermined by, 73–78, 83–84

U.S. as “force for good” and, 103

war on terrorism and, 169, 291–92

Butler, Smedley, 169

Caesar, Julius, 16, 37

“Cairo West” air base (Egypt), 253

Cambodia, 203

Cambone, Stephen, 127, 228

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 161

Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases, 164

Camp Andy (Qatar), 248

Camp Arifjan (Kuwait), 243

Camp as-Sayliyah (Qatar), 248–49

Campbell, Kurt M., 62

Camp Bondsteel (Kosovo), 143, 145–46, 152, 155, 183, 184

Camp Casey (South Korea), 92–93, 107

Camp Doha (Kuwait), 146–49, 242–43

Camp Eagel (Bosnia), 155

Camp Hansen (Okinawa), 6, 7

Camp Monteith (Kosovo), 143, 152, 155

Camp Peary (Virginia), 9

Camp Pendleton (California), 7, 24, 123, 242

Camp Sarafovo (Bulgaria), 146

Camp Snoopy (Qatar), 248, 249

Canada, 31, 121, 165

Cantwell, Maria, 57

capital movement, 263, 267, 272–73

Caraway, David, 148

Card, Andrew H., Jr., 217, 236

Caribbean, 2, 41, 190, 192

carrier battle groups, 242, 250

Carroll, James, 78

Carter, Jimmy, 86, 94, 222–23, 296

Caspian Basin oil, 145, 168–70, 172–74

Castro, Fidel, 20

casualties, 54–55, 59

Afghan war and, 79

attempt to avoid U.S., 28, 133, 288–91

classes of, in Gulf War I, 100–101

Cato, 285

Caucasus, 32

CENTCOM (U.S. Central Command), 223, 224, 237, 241

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, 118

Center for Strategic and International Studies, 127

Central America, 2, 22, 32, 169, 192

Central Asia, 32, 155, 226

military bases in, 24, 168, 175, 183–85, 189–90, 198, 215

oil in, 145, 168, 170–83, 185, 234

Central Asia Gas and Pipeline Consortum (CentGas), 179–80

Central Intelligence Act (1949), 117

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 3, 8, 10, 12, 36, 42n, 64, 68, 128, 162, 163, 203, 267, 295–96, 308

Afghanistan and, 11, 139, 181, 182, 222

assassinations and, 136

commercial espionage by, 166

Greece and, 205–6

Indonesia and, 209

information on citizens collected by, 122–23

Iran and, 220

Iraq and, 11, 126–27, 223–24, 232, 302, 303, 305, 306

Laos and, 134

Latin America and, 34

Panama and, 69

Pentagon vs., 123, 126–29

Philippines and, 209, 213

Saudi Arabia and, 218

secret budget of, 117

Soviet Union and, 18

Special Activities Division, 11

Yemen strike by, 27

Chechnya, 72, 172, 173, 175

chemical weapons, 101, 129–30, 225

Cheney, Dick, 6, 20, 82, 130, 174, 248, 286

Afghanistan and, 179

Halliburton and, 144–46, 184

Iraq war and, 126, 227–28, 233, 302–3, 308

Chevron (ChevronTexaco, formerly SoCal), 172–74, 218

Chiang Kai-shek, 36, 86

Chicago Tribune, 113

Chief Peter J. Ganci Jr. Air Base (Kyrgyzstan), 183–84

Chile, 9, 75, 193, 224, 267

China, 9, 20, 29–31, 34, 35, 43, 50, 54, 58, 61, 71, 86, 94, 188, 189, 193, 222, 272, 290

Bush II and, 83–88

empire of, 310

Japan and, 48, 50, 131

oil and, 169, 170, 234

Chirac, Jacques, 300

Christianity, 43, 47, 138, 285, 287

Christopher, Warren, 163

Chun Doo-hwan, 89

Churchill, Winston, 91

Cicero, 285

CINCs (commanders in chief), 121–22, 124–26

Citibank (later Citicorp), 266, 274

citizens

loss of rights, 78–79, 285, 293–98

spying on, 122–23, 151, 161–62, 165, 295–98

Citizen Works, 145

Civil War, 52, 54–55, 78

Clark, Wesley, 75

Clark Air Base (Philippines), 193, 208, 209, 211–13

client states, 31, 68

Clinton, Bill, 22, 71, 73, 75, 117, 268

Afghanistan and, 178, 180

defense spending and, 56, 278

East Asian collapse and, 272

East Timor and, 138

globalization and, 255–56, 260–61

Iraq and, 226, 228, 229, 232

military and, 53, 111

North Korea and, 89, 94

oil and, 174–75, 178

Pakistan and, 125

Serbia and, 145

Somalia and, 133

“Coalition Media Center” (Qatar), 249

Cold War, 2, 3, 6, 32–35, 117, 118, 151, 223, 258–59

defense spending and, 54–56, 55

end of, 16–22, 68, 91, 189, 309–10

military bases and, 193–204

Cole, USS, bombing of, 125, 139, 252

Colombia, 3, 42n, 136, 137, 140, 192, 279–80, 288, 311

colonialism, 24, 29–30, 35, 39, 43–44, 50–51, 64–65, 263

Combat Support Associates, 147–48

Combined Air Operations Center (Qatar), 247

Combined Air Operations Center (Saudi Arabia), 240–41

Commerce, Department of, 268

Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization, 82

Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, 300

Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, 122

Commodity Credit Corporation, 224

Communism, 34, 50–52, 64, 170, 188, 193–94, 199, 261

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, 73

Comstock, Barbara, 298

Congressional Government (Wilson), 46

conservatives, 259–60

Constitution, U.S., 12, 44–46, 120, 285, 292–98

containment policy, 6, 23, 188, 193

Contras, 17, 130

Control Supply Company, 2

Cornwell, Rachel, 36

corporations, 13, 145, 207, 267, 271. See also arms industry; multinational corporations; private military companies

Costa-Gavras, Constantin, 205

Costa Rica, 137

Council on Foreign Relations, 68, 130

coup d’etats, 33, 34, 42n, 68, 125, 205–6, 267

covert actions, 42n, 128–30, 224

Cox, Harvey, 261

Cox Report, 86–87

Coyle, Philip E., 84

Cramer, Ben, 33

Crescent Group, 179

Croatia, 140, 300

crony capitalism, 262, 273, 277, 308

Cuba, 40–43, 45, 53, 121, 169, 192–93, 301

missile crisis, 33–34, 302

Cubic Applications, Inc., 140, 141

Cunningham, Keith B., 195

currency, exchange rates, 264–267

Cyprus, 205, 206

Czechoslovakia, 19, 69

Dalbandin military base (Pakistan), 182

Dassault company, 279

D’Aubuisson, Roberto, 136

Dean, John, 284

death squads, 72, 126, 136

deception operations, 299–300

Declaration of Independence, 12, 45

decontamination techniques, 300

Defense, Department of (DOD, Pentagon), 2, 3, 6, 36, 105, 122

Afghan war of 2001, 13

budgets, 55, 58, 117–20

Bush II and, 62–63

contracts, 57, 119, 142–43

disinformation and, 298–99

domestic policing and, 119–23

evasion of Congress by, 138

foreign armies and, 8, 124, 132–33, 137–38, 140–49

foreign policy and, 5–6

forerunner of, created, 45–46

intelligence agencies, 42n, 126–30

Iraq and, 61, 226–28, 305

media and, 4, 52, 112–15

military base information and, 4, 153–55

recruitment and, 110–12

regaining control over, 12, 312

Defense Appropriations Act (2001), 138

Defense Authorization Bill (1998), 12

Defense Export Loan Guarantee Fund, 279

“defense intellectuals,” 70–71, 80, 81, 84

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), 9, 36, 117, 118, 127, 130, 141, 305

Defense Policy Board, 234

Defense Science Board, 129–30, 228

Defense Security Cooperation Agency, 140