Dismantling the Empire

RAND Corporation

Raytheon

Reagan, Ronald

Republican Party

Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC)

Rhee, Syngman

Rice, Condoleezza

Risen, James

Roberts, Julia

Robeson, Mastin

Robson, Eleanor

Rocchi, James

Roddy, Melissa

Roh Tae Woo

Romania

Rome, ancient

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Rumsfeld, Donald

Russia, post-Soviet. See also Soviet Union

Sabri, Naji

Safire, William

Salman, Prince, of Saudi Arabia

Sanchez, Loretta

San Diego, California

San Diego Union-Tribune

satellite intelligence

Saudi Arabia

Saudi General Intelligence Department (Istakhbarat)

Saudi Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice

Saunders, Frances Stonor

Scahill, Jeremy

Scheuer, Michael F.

Schlesinger, James

School of the Americas

Schröder, Gerhard

Schuster, Angela M. H.

Schwarzennegger, Arnold

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)

Scott, A. O.

2nd Infantry Division

secrecy

secret prisons

Senegal

September 11, 2001, attacks (9/11)

sexual violence

Shakespeare, William

Shia Muslims

Shining Path

Shorrock, Tim

Sierra Leone

signals intelligence

Singapore

60 Minutes (TV show)

Smith, Haviland

Socialist Party (Japan)

Social Security

Solomon, John

Somoza, Anastasio

Sorkin, Aaron

Sorrows of Empire, The (Johnson)

South America

South Asia

South Korea

bases in

South Korean National Assembly

South Korean Supreme Court

South Vietnam

Soviet-Afghan War (1979–89)

Soviet empire

Soviet Union (USSR)

atheism of, vs. Islam

CIA and

Cold War and

demise of, and end of empire

military spending

space warfare

Spain

Spangdahlem Air Force Base

Special Forces

Spiegel, Peter

Spies for Hire (Shorrock)

Spinney, Franklin “Chuck,”

Sprey, Pierre M.

Stalin, Joseph

standing armies

Stasi

State Department

defense spending and

Pakistan and

private contractors and

state terrorism

Status of Forces Agreements (SOFAs)

Steadman Review (1977)

Strategic Air Command

“Streamlining Review” (Defense Science Board)

Streetcar Named Desire, A (Williams)

Studies on Persianate Societies (journal)

Stuttgart, Germany, base

submarines

Suharto

suicide option

Sullivan, Martin

Sumerians

Sun Fun Products

Sunni Muslims

Switzerland

Syria

Taguba, Anthony

Tailhook Association

Taiwan

Taliban

Tallil Air Base (Nasariyah)

tariffs

taxes

Team B

Tenet, George

terrorism. See also specific events

Thailand

3rd Brigade

3rd Marine Division

Third World

Tibet

Titan Corporation

Tomsen, Peter

Top Gun Enterprises

Top Gun (film)

Toronto Globe and Mail

torture

Total Information Awareness Program

Total System Performance Responsibility initiative

trade deficits. See also current accounts

Treasury Department

Triple Canopy

Truman, Harry S.

TRW

Tunisia

Turan, Kenneth

Turkey

Turki, Prince, of Saudi Arabia

Turse, Nick

Twetten, Thomas

U-2 aircraft

UNESCO

Uniform Code of Military Justice

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

United Fruit Company

United Kingdom. See Great Britain

United Nations

Security Council Resolution 1483 (2003)

U.S. Air Force

U.S. armed forces (military). See also Defense Department; military bases; private contractors; and specific branches, base locations, and wars

all-volunteer

control of government by

disabled veterans and

looting of Iraq and

rape of women in

U.S. Army

U.S. Coast Guard

U.S. Congress

incumbency and

military spending and

private contractors and

U.S. Constitution

U.S. Forces Korea

U.S. House of Representatives

Appropriations Committee

Defense Appropriations Subcommittee

Foreign Affairs subcommittee

U.S. House of Representatives (cont’d)

Intelligence Oversight Committee

National Security Subcommittee

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

U.S.-Japanese Security Treaty

U.S. Marine Corps

Civil Affairs Bureau

U.S. Navy

U.S. Senate

Armed Services Committee

Military Construction Subcommittee

U.S. Supreme Court

Ur archaeological site

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Vatican

Venezuela

Veterans Affairs Department

Vicenza, Italy, base

Vietnam

Vietnam War

Vikan, Gary

Vinnell Corporation

Wag the Dog (film)

Wahhabi fundamentalists

Warner, John

Washington Post

Waziristan

wealthy

weapons of mass destruction

Weiner, Tim

West Africa

Western Europe

Westmoreland, William

Wheeler, Winslow

Wilkes, Brent

Williams, Tennessee

Wilson, Charlie

Wilson, Woodrow

Wisner, Frank

Wohlstetter, Roberta

Wolfowitz, Paul

Wolin, Sheldon S.

women

Afghanistan and

overseas bases and

rights of

Woods, Thomas E., Jr.

Woolsey, James

“World Factbook” (CIA)

World Monuments Fund

World War I

World War II

Wrecking Crew, The (Frank)

Wynne, Michael W.

Yokosuka, Japan, base

Yongsan Garrison

Young, Don

Zahir Shah, king of Afghanistan

Zawahiri, Ayman al-

Zawhar Kili missile attack

Zia-ul-Haq, Mohammed

Zimansky, Paul

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