Dismantling the Empire

anti-Americanism

antiballistic missile ban

anti-ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) network

Arbenz, Jacobo

arc of instability

Arendt, Hannah

Argentina

Arjomand, Saïd

Armitage, Richard

arms sales

Army and Air Force Exchange Service

Assyrians

Auerback, Marshall

Augustus Caesar

Australia

automotive industry

Aviano Air Base (Italy)

Avrakotos, Gust

B-2 stealth bomber

B-52 bomber

Babylon

Bacevich, Andrew

Baghdad

Mongol invasion of

Baghdad International Airport

Baghdad National Museum

Bagram Air Base

Bahrain

Bahrani, Zainab

Baker, Dean

balance of powers

Bamiyan Buddhist statues

bank bailouts

Barnes, Julian

Barnett, Correlli

Barr, Jay

“Base Structure Reports,”

Bashur airfield

Batista, Fulgencio

Bay of Pigs invasion

Bearden, Milton

Belgrade Chinese embassy bombing

Benedict, Helen

Berger, Sandy

Berke, Richard L.

Berlin Wall, fall of

Berlusconi, Silvio

Beyond the Green Zone (Jamail)

Bhutto, Benazir

Bilbray, Brian

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, base

Bissell, Richard

Black, Cofer

black budgets

Blackwater

Blackwater (Scahill)

Blair, Tony

blowback

Blowback (Johnson)

Boeing

Bolivia

Booz Allen Hamilton

Boyd, John

Boyd (Coram)

Brazil

Bremer, L. Paul, III

British Empire. See also Great Britain

British Petroleum

Bromwich, David

Bryan, William Jennings

Brzezinski, Zbigniew

Bulgaria

Burns, John

Busby, Francine

Bush, George H. W. (Bush I)

Bush, George W. (Bush II)

bin Laden and

defense spending and

Iraq and

preventive war and

private contractors and

Business-Industry PAC

CACI International

Caesar, Julius

California 50th Congressional District

Cambodia

campaign contributions

Camp Anaconda (Iraq)

Camp Bondsteel (Kosovo)

Camp Butler (Okinawa)

Camp Justice (Diego Garcia)

Camp Lemonier (Djibouti)

Camp Schwab (Okinawa)

Canada

Cannistraro, Vincent

Capabilities-Based Acquisition

Cardiff School Board

Caribbean

Carlucci Acquisition Initiatives

Carter, Jimmy

Casey, William

Castro, Fidel

Catholic Action

Catholic Church

CENTCOM

Center for Economic and Policy Research

Center for Responsive Politics

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). See also specific countries and operations

Afghanistan and jihadis and

blowback and

budget of

creation of

history of crimes and bungling of

need to abolish

9/11 and

oversight and

private contractors and

secrecy of

Charlie Wilson’s War (film and book)

Cheney, Dick

Chicago Sun-Times

Chile

coup of 1973

China

Chinese Communist Party

Chinese National People’s Congress

Chomsky, Noam

Christian Coalition

Christian Democratic Party (Italy)

Christian Science Monitor

Christie, Thomas

Chun Doo Hwan

CIA Records Search Technology (CREST)

Cinematical

Clarke, Richard

Clarridge, Duane R. “Dewey,”

Clinton, Bill

Coalition Provisional Authority

Colby, William

Cold War

end of

Cole, USS, attack on

Coll, Steve

Colombia

Communist Party of Italy

Complex, The (Turse)

Congo-Zaire

Congressional Budget Office

Congressional Record

Congressional Reference Service

Conrail

containment

Control Supply Company

Coram, Robert

corporate power

Correa, Rafael

corruption

counterinsurgency doctrine

counterterrorism

Counterterrorist Center

coups

covert action

Crile, George

Cruise, Tom

cruise missiles

Cuba

Cubic Corporation

Cultural Cold War, The (Saunders)

Culvahouse, Arthur B.

Cunningham, Randy “Duke,”

current accounts

Curtis, John

Czech Republic

Danics, Anita

Daoud, Sardar Mohammed

Dar es Salaam embassy bombing

Darwin, Charles

data-mining

death squads

debt. See also federal deficits; national debt

Decision Research

Decline in America’s Reputation, The

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Defense Authorization Bills

defense contractors (munitions industry). See also military-industrial complex; private contractors

Defense Department (DOD, Pentagon). See also military bases; and specific bases, countries, weapons, and wars

base inventories by

base repositioning and

budgets of

Inspector General

Iraqi museums and

munitions industry and

private contractors and

procurement by, and reform attempts

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Defense Management Review

“Defense Power Games” (Spinney)

defense reform movement

Defense Science Board

Task Force on Strategic Communication

defense spending. See also Defense Department; military-industrial complex; military Keynesianism

economic impact of

overseas bases and

public-private partnerships and

size of, vs. other countries

supplementary, for Iraq and Afghanistan

wasteful, and reform attempts

democracy

empire and

defined

imposing, on others

privatization and

Democracy Incorporated (Wolin)

Democratic Party (Japan)

Democratic Socialist Party (Japan)

Denmark

Deterring Democracy (Chomsky)

Deutch, John

Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killings

dictatorships

Diego Garcia

Djibouti

dollar, value of

domestic spying

Dominican Republic

Donovan, William J. “Wild Bill,”

Dornan, Bob

Douglas, Paul

Drug Enforcement Administration

drugs

Dulles, Allen S.

Dupree, Louis

Durand Line

Dutch empire