NOTE ON SOURCES
All but the introduction to this book and two of the pieces in it appeared first online at the website TomDispatch.com, and there they were heavily sourced. Instead of footnotes, most had links, and, even when there were footnotes, the cites were normally largely to the URLs of various websites. A long set of URLs as footnotes in a book is, however, both awkward and largely useless. As a result, the essays in this book are unfootnoted and unsourced. However, if you go to TomDispatch.com and use either the search window or the website’s month-by-month archives, you can check the original sourcing on any of these pieces. The Internet offers the first democratic form of footnoting; unfortunately—fair warning—a certain number of those links do go dead over time.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am grateful for the helpful suggestions and inspiration of several good friends and colleagues. These include Kozy Amemiya, Alfredo and Maricler Antognini, Marshall Auerback, Juan Cole, Sam Coleman, Bruce Cumings, Sandy Dijkstra, Giorgio and Noretta Freddi, Pat Hatcher, Barry Keehn, Ken Kopp, Thomas Royden, Michael Rubano, Chiho Sawada, Nick Turse, and Dustin Wright. Also, many thanks to my eagle-eyed copy editor, Emily DeHuff.
My greatest debt, however, is to my devoted publisher, Sara Bershtel of Metropolitan Books, and to my two exacting editors, Tom Engelhardt of TomDispatch.com and Sheila K. Johnson, my wife.
INDEX
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A-10 “Warthog” aircraft
abortion
Abraham Lincoln, USS (aircraft carrier)
abstract expressionism
Abu Ghraib
Acquisition Streamlining Task Force
ADCS Inc.
Afghanistan. See also Afghan War; Anglo-Afghan wars; Soviet-Afghan War
Carter and
CIA and
civil war and Taliban takeover of
coups of 1973 and 1978
Pakistan and
Saudi Arabia and
Afghanistan (Dupree)
Afghan War (2001– )
cost of
Obama and
Pakistan and
Agency for International Development (USAID)
aircraft
aircraft carriers
Air Mobility Command
Albright, Madeleine
Alexander the Great
Algeria
Allende, Salvador
al-Qaeda
American Council for Cultural Policy
American Enterprise Institute
America Right or Wrong (Lieven)
Ames, Aldrich
Anderson, Frank
Anglo-Afghan wars
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