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

Airbus, 166, 277

air force, 7, 62, 63, 78, 104, 105, 201. See also Special Forces

black budget, 118, 119

Air Force Academy rape scandal, 105–6

Air Force Communications Agency, 241

Air Force Reserve, 102

Air Force Space Command, 79, 81, 121, 311

Air Mobility Command, 189

Air National Guard, 102

Akayev, Askar, 170, 172, 183–84

Albania, 300

Albright, Madeleine, 90

al-Dhafra Air Base (UAE), 249–50

Alexander’s Gas & Oil Connections, 180

Algeria, 30

Ali al Salem Air Base (Kuwait), 244

al-Jazeera (cable-news network), 246–47

Allende, Salvador, 9, 267

al-Masirah Air Base (Oman), 4, 252

al-Musnana Air Base (Oman), 251–52

al-Qaeda, 4, 27, 88, 129, 130, 175, 178, 189, 236

Iraq ties claimed, 126–27, 231–32, 305–6

9/11 attacks and, 227, 291

U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia and, 241

war on Afghanistan and, 181–82, 289

Altair Voyager (oil tanker), 173

al-Udeid air base (Qatar), 4, 241, 247–48

Amboinese, 131

American Enterprise Institute, 235, 275

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 105

American Revolution, 120, 190

America’s Army (computer game), 97–98

Amnesty International, 167

Amoco (British Petroleum-Amoco), 172, 177, 178

Amritsar Massacre (1919), 70

Andaman Islands, 70

Andrews, Evander, 248

Anglo-Persian Oil Company, 220

Angola, 135, 311

Annapolis, 104

Ansar al Islam, 232

anthrax, 224, 291

Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (1972), 73, 83, 256

Apocalypse Now (film), 112

Appy, Christian, 60

Aquino, Benigno “Ninoy,” 210, 211

Aquino, Corazon Cojuangco, 211, 212

Arabian-American Oil Company (Aramco), 218–19

Arab-Israeli War of 1967, 224

Arbenz, Jacobo, 34

Area 51 (Nevada), 118, 119

Area Support Groups (ASGs), 196–97

Arendt, Hannah, 257, 261, 283

Argentina, 75, 255, 267, 274, 276–77

Arizona National Guard, 175

Arkin, William M., 153, 288, 299

armed forces, 32, 97–113, 134. See also standing army in peacetime

active reserves, 102–4

all-volunteer, 54, 60, 97–99

behavior of, abroad, 5–8, 18–24, 36–37, 92–93

crime and racism in, 5–8, 55, 92, 107–10

currently deployed, 196, 198, 202, 288

demographics and, 99, 102–7

draft and, end of, 54, 59–60

DU ammunition and, 100–102

Iraq war of 2003, 283

recruitment of, 97–99, 102–3, 107, 110–14

Armed Forces Recreational Center for Europe, 197

Armenia, 172, 174

Armitage, Richard, 62, 174, 213, 228

Armor Holdings, 140

arms industry, 57, 61–64, 277–81. See also weapons sales

army, 44–45, 62, 63, 105. See also Special Forces

black programs, 118

demographics, 60, 78, 104

Army Appropriations Bill (1901), 41

Army Corps of Engineers, 144, 145, 219, 243, 250

Army Forces Central Command—Kuwait (ARCENT-KU), 147

Army Forces Central Command—Saudi Arabia (ARCENT-SA), 238

Army National Guard, 102

Army Rangers, 69, 109, 115, 124, 129

Army Reserve, 102

Army War College, 46, 289

Art of War, The (Sun Tzu), 255

Ashcroft, John, 294, 295, 297–98

Asiatic Squadron, 41

assassinations, 68, 133, 136, 291

Atlacatl Battalion, 126

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 236

Atlantic Charter (1941), 200

atomic bombs. See also nuclear weapons

secrecy and, 12

used on Japan, 35, 52, 198–99, 290

Atsugi Naval Air Station (Japan), 201

Augustus, emperor of Rome (Octavian), 16

Austin Chronicle, 144

Austo-Hungarian empire, 310

Australia, 30, 31, 162–63, 165, 283

Australia Defense Signals Directorate, 165

Austria, 19

Austro-Hungarian empire, 50

Avant, Deborah, 141

Aviano Air Force Base (Italy), 239

“axis of evil,” 4, 20, 77, 245

Ayios Nikolaos (Cyprus), 162

Azerbaijan, 137, 168, 169, 172, 174, 175, 184

Baccus, Rick, 42

Bacevich, Andrew, 67

Bad Aibling Air Force Base (Germany), 162

Bagram Air Base (Afghanistan), 115, 182

Bahrain, 24, 215, 221–22, 233, 242, 244–46, 248

Baker, James A., III, 174

Baker Botts firm, 174

Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline project, 174–76

Balkans, 8, 15, 143–46, 189, 190, 198, 236

ballistic missile defense (BMD), 34, 83–86, 94, 162, 309

banks, 166, 224, 226, 267, 272

Barabee, Robert, 109

Base Status Report (BSR), 153–55, 198, 202

Bay of Pigs invasion, 11, 34, 301

BBC, 115, 247

BDM International, 140

Bechtel, 166, 308

Beckwith, Charlie A., 123

Belgium, 43, 263

Bell Act (1946), 207–8

Bello, Walden, 268, 269

Bemis, Samuel Flagg, 191

Bengzon, Alfredo, 213

Bennett, William J., 228

Berlin Wall, fall of, 7, 18–20, 34, 69

Berlusconi, Silvio, 275

Beveridge, Albert, 43, 192

Bhutto, Benazir, 176

bin Laden, Osama, 178–81, 227, 229, 231, 232, 236, 305

biological weapons, 77, 129–30

biopiracy, 271–72

Bitburg airfield (Germany), 194

black budget, 56, 117–19

Blair, Dennis, 125

Blair, Tony, 275, 283

Blair House Agreement (1992–93), 270

Blake, George, 10

Blix, Hans, 302

Blowback, 8–9, 11

blowback, 8–9, 121, 227, 288, 300

Board of National Estimates, 218

Boeing, 57, 118, 119, 277–79, 309

Boer War, 82, 307

Bolivia, 75

Bolton, John R., 77, 86, 228, 234

Bondsteel, James L., 143

Bonner, Yelena, 17–18

Bonn International Center for Conversion, 195

Bookman, Jay, 236

Boot, Max, 70

Bosnia, 3, 62, 72, 140, 155

Boston Globe, 78

Bourgeois, Roy, 136–37

Bowen, Alva, 210

Boxer, Barbara, 292

Brazil, 75, 267, 268, 275, 279–80

“Brezhnev Doctrine,” 69

Bridas company, 176–77, 179, 180

Bridges at Toko-Ri, The (Michener), 58

Brinkley, David, 113

British East India Company, 31

British Empire, 2, 5, 24, 30, 31, 43, 50, 191, 257. See also Great Britain

Boer War and, 82

decline, 219, 310

economy and, 261, 307

logic of, 81

as model, 25, 67, 68, 70

Persian Gulf and, 217–18

sepoys used by, 131, 134, 135, 138–39

British First Armored Division, 242

British fleet, 40

British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), 165

British Ministry of Defense, 164

British Petroleum (BP-Amoco), 167, 177, 220

Brokaw, Tom, 113, 231

Brooks, Vincent, 249

Brown, Ron, 268

Brown & Root. See Kellogg Brown & Root company

Bryan, William Jennings, 49

Bryce, Robert, 144

Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 178

Bulgaria, 146, 300

Bulgheroni, Carlos, 176

Bundy, McGeorge, 97

Bunning, Jim, 292

Bunting, Madeleine, 284

Burgas International Airport, 146

Burma, 131, 176

Bush, George H. W. (Bush I), 17, 20, 60, 82, 69, 126, 127, 173, 174, 178, 233

Iraq and, 217, 225–28, 230, 232

Bush, George W. (Bush II), 1, 4, 33–34, 75, 133, 141, 213, 275

Afghanistan and, 42, 176, 178, 179, 181

appointments by, 62–64, 79–83

“axis of evil” and, 64, 245

Central Asia and, 172–75, 184

China and, 87, 88

defense spending and, 56, 118, 281

democracy threatened by, 291–97

German bases and, 198

Iraq war, 10–11, 73, 217, 224, 227–36, 302, 304–6, 308

Latin America and, 261

military growth under, 122–23

military imperialism of, vs. Clinton’s economic, 255–57