Qualcomm
racism
Rainer, Peter
Ramstein Air Force Base
Rancho Santa Fe, California
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
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chalmers Johnson is the author or editor of seventeen books on subjects ranging from revolution to Chinese and Japanese politics, the high-speed growth of the East Asian economies, and his Blowback Trilogy on American imperialism and militarism. For thirty years he was a professor of international politics at the University of California, Berkeley and San Diego. From 1967 to 1973, he also served as a consultant to the Office of National Estimates of the CIA.
The American Empire Project
In an era of unprecedented military strength, leaders of the United States, the global hyperpower, have increasingly embraced imperial ambitions. How did this significant shift in purpose and policy come about? And what lies down the road?
The American Empire Project is a response to the changes that have occurred in America’s strategic thinking as well as in its military and economic posture. Empire, long considered an offense against America’s democratic heritage, now threatens to define the relationship between our country and the rest of the world. The American Empire Project publishes books that question this development, examine the origins of U.S. imperial aspirations, analyze their ramifications at home and abroad, and discuss alternatives to this dangerous trend.