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39. Lawrence F. Kaplan, New Republic, March 12, 2001. Kaplan is a senior editor at the New Republic. He is coauthor with William Kristol of the neoconservative book The War over Iraq (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003).

40. Jim Walsh, “The Two Faces of Bush on Defense,” Los Angeles Times, May 1, 2001.

41. Bill Keller, “Missile Defense: The Untold Story,” New York Times, December 29, 2001.

42. U.S. Department of Defense, Report of the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, July 15, 1998. For implementation of this report, see Donald H. Rumsfeld, 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review, June 22, 2001, “classified contents removed,” p. 13.

43. Paul Wolfowitz, “Remembering the Future,” National Interest, Spring 2000, p. 36. For the 1992 background, see David Armstrong, “Dick Cheney’s Song of America: Drafting a Plan for Global Dominance,” Harper’s, October 2002, pp. 76–83; and Tom Berry and Jim Lobe, “The Men Who Stole the Show,” Foreign Policy in Focus, Special Report, October 2002.

44. Quoted by Quentin Peel, “Face It, The Cold War Is Over,” Financial Times, August 20, 2001.

45. See Wen-ho Lee (with Helen Zia), My Country versus Me (New York: Hyperion, 2001); and Dan Stober and Ian Hoffman, A Convenient Spy: Wen-ho Lee and the Politics of Nuclear Espionage (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001).

46. William Arkin and Robert Windrem, “The U.S.-China Information War,” August 20, 2001, .

47. Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo), April 25, 2003 (in Japanese).

48. Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations and Environment), Base Structure Report (A Summary of DoD’s Real Property Inventory) (Washington: Department of Defense, 2002), s.v. “South Korea.”

49. Bruce Cumings, Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History (New York: Norton, 1997), p. 153. Also see Doug Bandow, Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World (Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 1996).

50. Jim Lea, “S. Korean Protesters Hurl Rocks, Eggs at Camp Casey,” Stars & Stripes, July 21, 2002; K. T. Kim, “Trial of U.S. Soldiers to Open to Media Only,” Korea Times, November 8, 2002; James Brooke, “First of 2 G.I.’s on Trial in Deaths of 2 Korean Girls Is Acquitted,” New York Times, November 21, 2002; Don Kirk, “2nd U.S. Sergeant Is Cleared in the Death of 2 Korean Girls,” New York Times, November 23, 2002; BBC News, “S. Koreans Stage Huge Anti-U.S. Rally,” December 14, 2002; Robert Fouser, “Putting Alliance to a ‘Democracy Test,’” Korea Now, December 14, 2002; Tim Shorrock, “Ron’s Election Victory and the Widening Gap between the U.S. and South Korea,” Foreign Policy in Focus, January 7, 2003; Jaewoo Choo, “Vigils in Korea: U.S. Alliances on Trial,” Asia Times, January 7, 2003; and Peter S. Goodman and Joohee Cho, “Anti-U.S. Sentiment Deepens in S. Korea,” Washington Post, January 9, 2003.

51. Barbara Demick, “A Less Intrusive Presence for Troops in South Korea,” Los Angeles Times, April 2, 2003.

52. Walter Pincus, “CIA Head Predicts Nuclear Race: Small Nations Pursuing Arms,” Washington Post, February 12, 2003.

4: THE INSTITUTIONS OF AMERICAN MILITARISM

1. Brian Kennedy, “Uncle Sam Wants You to Play This Game,” New York Times, July 11, 2002; Steve Osunsami, “Simulated Sniping: U.S. Army Recruits Teens with Internet Game,” ABC News, October 31, 2002; and Steve Rubenstein, “Military Recruits Motivated by Promises of Perks, Not Patriotism,” San Francisco Chronicle, December 13, 2002.

2. See the following official Web sites: and . Also see Chris Grenz, “Dragster an Army of One,” Topeka Capital-Journal, May 24, 2001; Jeff Wolf, “Army Mixes Recruiting, Racing,” Las Vegas Review-Journal, April 8, 2002. For a photograph of “The Sarge,” see Popular Mechanics, 2002, .

3. David Wood, “Shaky Economy Alters Equations of Risk in Today’s Military,” San Diego Union-Tribune, April 27, 2003.

4. Doug Rokke, “Gulf War Casualties,” September 30, 2002, ; Karsten Strauss, “When the Dust Settles,” ABC News, May 5, 2003; Scott Peterson, “A Rare Visit to Iraq’s Radioactive Battlefield,” Christian Science Monitor, April 29,1999; and Peterson, “Remains of Toxic Bullets Litter Iraq,” Christian Science Monitor, May 15, 2003.

5. Susanna Hecht, “Uranium Warheads May Leave Both Sides a Legacy of Death for Decades,” Los Angeles Times, March 30, 2003; Neil Mackay, “U.S. Forces’ Use of Depleted Uranium Is ‘Illegal,’” Glasgow Sunday Herald, March 30, 2003; Steven Rosenfeld, “Gulf War Syndrome, the Sequel,” TomPaine.com, April 8, 2003; “UK to Aid DU Removal,” BBC News, April 23, 2003; Frances Williams, “Clean-Up of Pollution Urged to Reduce Health Risks,” and Vanessa Houlder, “Allied Troops Risk Uranium Exposure,’” Financial Times, April 25, 2003; Jonathan Duffy, “Iraq’s Cancer Children Overlooked in War,” BBC News, April 29, 2003.

6. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management Policy, Population Representation in the Military Services (Washington: Department of Defense, November 2000), .

7. Leonel Sanchez, “Hispanics Overrepresented in Combat Roles, Report Says,” San Diego Union-Tribune, March 28, 2003; “Baja Upset at U.S. Army Bid to Recruit in Tijuana,” San Diego Union-Tribune, May 9, 2003; Mark Stevenson, “U.S. Army Recruiter Crosses Mexico Border,” Associated Press, May 9, 2003; “Green Card Marines,” Los Angeles Times, May 25, 2003.

8. Adam Clymer, “Service Academies Defend Use of Race in Their Admissions Policies,” New York Times, January 28, 2003.

9. U.S. Department of Defense, “News Transcript: Background Briefing on the All Volunteer Force,” January 13, 2003, ; Earl Ofari Hutchinson, “Echoes of’Fragging,’” San Francisco Chronicle, March 27, 2003; and Kimberly Hefling, “Military Trial Urged in Kuwait Fragging,” Washington Times, June 21, 2003.

10. Marie Tessier, Women’s ENews, posted on AlterNet.org, April 8, 2003.

11. Michael Janofsky, “Top Air Force Officer, at Academy, Issues Warning,” New York Times, March 8, 2003.

12. Roland Watson and Glen Owen, “Kitty Hawk Captain Loses Control,” Times Online, “World News,” September 4, 2002.

13. Norman Soloman, “Media Sizzle for an Army of Fun,” Media Monitors, July 8, 2002, .

14. Kevin Heldman, “On the Town with the U.S. Military in Korea,” Z Magazine, February 1997, .

15. Ibid.

16. Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, “Death at Fort Bragg,” U.S. News & World Report, August 12, 2002, p. 44.

17. Bill Vann, “The Fort Bragg Murders: A Grim Warning on the Use of the Military,” World Socialist Web Site, August 2, 2002.

18. Colin Soloway, “’I Yelled at Them to Stop,’” Newsweek, October 7, 2002, ; and Dan Plesch, “Failure of the 82nd Airborne,” Guardian, December 19, 2002. Also see Marc W. Herold, “Vietnam Redux,” October 31, 2002, , where full citations to Afghan incidents are given.

19. Associated Press, “Marine Corps Cancels Annual Sniper Meet,” October 23, 2002.

20. John M. Broder, “Arizona Gunman Chose Victims in Advance,” New York Times, October 30, 2002.

21. Roland Watson and Glen Owen, “Kitty Hawk Captain”; and “Kitty Hawk Captain Dismissed Over Crewmen’s Incidents,” Yomiuri Shimbun (Tokyo), September 4, 2002.