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executive branch bypassing,
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handling of war matters,
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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee,
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HUAC (House UnAmerican Activities Committee),
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,
177
,
179

J. Edgar Hoover's intimidation of,
176
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80
,
190

conquest and dissemination of technology,
60
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76

Constantine (Roman emperor),
35

Constitution (US),
148
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159
,
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75
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191
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200
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Continental Army,
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Continental Congress,
126

Cooke, Jay,
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,
138
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39
,
140

Cortés, Hernán,
23
,
63

Council on Foreign Relations,
55

Counter Intelligence Programs of the FBI (COINTELPRO) (US),
180
,
185

Court of Review (US),
186

Covode, John,
151

Credit Foncier (banking house in France),
136

Credit Mobilier (banking house in France),
136

Creel, George,
110

crime, US protecting citizens from rather than foreign threats,
217
–
20

Crimean War,
142

Crime Control Act of 1968 (US),
186

Crowther, Bosley,
116

“Crusader White Shirts,”
171

Cuba, “Bay of Pigs” invasion of in 1961,
162
,
208

curriculum of warfare,
32
–
50
,
54
–
58

Cuzco (Incan capital),
21

Darwinism,
33

David, Jacques Louis,
108

De Architectura
(Vitruvius Pollio),
57

Debye, Peter,
31

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (US),
89
,
187

Defense Department (DOD) (US),
55
–
56
,
89
,
91
,
156
,
158
,
181
,
183
,
197
,
208

Delbruck, Max,
31

Democratic Party (in US),
16
–
17
,
150
,
151
,
153
,
154
,
174
,
175

“democratic peace,”
211
,
213

Deng Xiaoping,
142

Dewey, Thomas E.,
178

Dick Act of 1903 (US),
156
–
57

Diem, Ngo Dinh,
198

Dies, Martin,
177

discipline in warfare,
39
–
43
,
56
–
57

Dive Bomber
(film),
113

Dix, John A.,
151

Domestic Radio Bureau (of OWI) (US),
115

Donskoy, Mark,
120

draft.
See
military conscription

Dreadnaught
(British warship),
81

Drew, Daniel,
140
,
141

DynCorp,
166

ECHELON (intercepting satellite-based communications),
183

economic progress and war,
9
,
10
–
11
,
12
,
17
,
36
–
37
,
51
,
55
,
129
–
68
,
211
.
See also
funding for wars

Edward I (king of England),
53

Egypt,
94
,
145
,
162
,
212

Egyptian empire,
9
,
45

Ehrenburg, Ilya,
121

Einstein, Albert,
30
,
31
,
90

Eisenhower, Dwight D., and his administration,
58
,
158
,
160
,
179
,
180
,
195
,
197
,
201

Eisenstein, Sergei,
120

Ellsberg, Daniel,
197

Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars,
31

Employment Serve (US),
170

Energy Department (US),
205

engineering,
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,
69
,
72
,
76
,
77
,
84
,
85
–
86
,
91

reverse engineering and technology transfers,
76
,
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,
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–
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,
88

and warfare,
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,
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,
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–
45
,
47
,
55
,
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,
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,
59
,
65
,
74
,
76
,
89
,
136

England.
See
Great Britain

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (US),
202
,
204
,
205

espionage,
76
,
86
–
87
,
156

Espionage Act of 1917 (US),
109
,
170
,
194

Ethics in Government Act (US),
154

Europe,
25
,
85
,
93
,
105
–
106
,
123
,
126
,
130
,
131
,
148
,
162
,
199
,
213
,
215
.
See also names of specific countries

European conquests and warfare within,
9
,
23
,
24
,
27
,
40
,
48
,
51
,
60
–
61
,
63
–
67
,
69
,
72
,
123
,
126
,
152
(
see also names of specific wars
)

funding for wars,
51
,
54
,
96
,
98
–
99

impact of technology on warfare,
40
,
44
,
60
–
61
,
63
–
64
,
65
–
66
,
67
,
76

industrial and financial development,
40
,
66
,
68
,
84
,
99
,
130
,
137
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138
,
140
–
41
,
213

military forces,
24
,
40
,
74
,
96
–
98
,
106

euthyna
(Athenian audit),
173
,
208

Evans, Redd,
102

executive orders (US),
159
–
61
,
195
,
203

executive privilege, US presidents using,
201
–
203

Exner, Judith Campbell,
177

Eyes of the Navy
(film),
113

FAIRVIEW (NSA surveillance program),
189

Falklands War (1982),
42
–
43

“Fast and Furious” operation of ATF,
204
,
205

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (US),
163
,
170
,
174
,
175
–
81
,
183
,
187
,
202
.
See also
Hoover, J. Edgar

Federal Communications Act of 1934 (US),
175
–
76

Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs),
55

Ferdinand and Isabella (king and queen of Spain),
19

Fermi, Enrico,
31

Ferrill, Arthur,
35

Fillmore, Millard,
151

films, use of as propaganda,
110
,
112
,
113
–
14
,
115
–
16
,
120

Finer, Samuel,
54

First Macedonian War (214–205 BCE),
70

First World War.
See
World War I

FISA Court (US),
186
,
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,
189
,
190

Fisk, James,
140
,
141

Flight Command
(film),
113

Foreign Economic Administration (US),
170

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) (US),
184
–
91

Forrestal, James,
158

“Four Modernizations” in China,
142

France,
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110
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130
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36
,
136
,
137
.
See also names of specific wars

Franck, James,
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,
31

Franco-Prussian War,
124
,
137

Fredericksburg, Battle of (1862),
10

Frederick the Great (German emperor),
28

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (US),
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Free Soil Party (in US),
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,
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Friedman, Milton,
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Friedman, William,
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Fulbright, J. William,
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funding for wars,
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bonds,
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taxes,
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Gabor, Denis,
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Galileo Galilei,
44

Gates Commission,
164

GATT Provisional Protocol.
See
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

General Accounting Office (GAO) (US),
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,
203

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT),
145
,
160

Genghis Khan,
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George, Henry,
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Germany,
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48
,
79
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83
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86
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106
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124
.
See also
World War I

German Democratic Republic (DDR),
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industrial and financial development,
136
–
37
,
142
,
146

Nazi Germany,
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24
–
32
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30
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31
,
32
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34
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37
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69
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83
,
104
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111
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12
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113
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114
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120
–
21
(
see also
World War II)

Prussia,
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,
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,
124
,
136
–
37

and technology,
69
,
79
,
81
–
83
,
87
–
88

United States developing war plans against,
36
,
48

Weimar Republic,
24
,
26
,
30

Gestapo,
27
,
112

“Ghost Shirt,”
15
–
16
,
211

Giancana, Sam,
177

GI Bill (1944) (US),
125
,
150

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader,
175

Girl No. 217
(film),
120

Glorious Revolution of 1688 (Britain),
132
–
33

Goebbels, Joseph,
112

Goldstein, Joshua,
211

Gorsuch, Anne,
202
,
205

Gould, Jay,
140

governments.
See
brutality of governments;
names of specific countries
; popular government; state power

Grand Army of the Republic (GAR),
150
–
52

Grande Armee,
96
–
97

Grand Trunk Road (India),
67

Grange,
147

Grant, Ulysses S.,
47

Great Britain,
9
,
42
–
43
,
55
,
56
,
109
,
137
,
145
–
46
.
See also
World War I; World War II

economic, industrial, financial development in,
51
–
53
,
67
–
69
,
79
,
87
–
88
,
100
,
102
,
130
–
33
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134
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35
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142
,
144
–
45

England in the tenth and eleventh centuries,
51
–
54

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