The Sorrows of Empire (63 page)

Defense Policy Board,
234

Defense Science Board,
129
–30,
228

Defense Security Cooperation Agency,
140

defense spending,
20
,
55
,
56
–58,
62
,
78
–79,
128
–30,
132
,
137
,
189

as “industrial policy,
277
–78

secret,
117
–20

2003 and 2004,
306
–9

U.S. portion of global, in 2000,
63

Defense Week,
117

de Gaulle, Charles,
194

Deller, Nicole,
73

Delta Force,
11
,
119
,
123
–24,
128
,
129
,
130

Delta Oil company,
179

democracy,
70
,
89
,
200
,
203
–8,
210
–11

Iraq and,
71
,
233
,
308

Roman empire and,
15
–16

threat to, in U.S.,
12
,
13
,
33
,
44
–46,
285
,
291
–98,
312

Wilson and,
47
–49,
51
–52

WTO and,
274

Democratic Party,
46

Denmark,
34

depleted uranium (DU) ammunition,
100
–102,
147

Depression,
259
,
265

Dewey, George,
41
,
43

DFI International (Defense Forecasts, Inc.),
140

Diego Garcia,
163
,
221
–22,
250
,
252

Dili massacre,
137

“disarmament wars,”
290

disinformation,
119
,
285
,
298
–303

Disney Studio,
112
–13

Djibouti,
242
,
252

Dobrynin, Anatoly,
17

Doha International Airport (Qatar),
248

dollar, exchange rate and,
264
–66

“dollar diplomacy,”
192

Domenici, Pete,
292

Dominican Republic,
192

“domino theory,”
82
,
188

Donovan, James,
52
,
53
,
187

Donovan, William J.,
10

Dragon Hill Recreation Center (South Korea),
92

drug trafficking,
20
,
21
,
69
,
120
,
129
,
134
,
172
,
177
,
211

Dubai,
222

Dubcek, Alexander,
19

Dulles, Allen,
9
,
10
,
223

DuPont company,
168
,
224
,
271

DynCorp,
140
–41,
147
,
248

East Asia,
3
,
8
,
11
,
20
,
31
,
33
,
34
,
43
,
50
,
199

economic development in,
263
,
264

financial collapse of 1997,
272
–76

North Korea and,
88
–95

Eastern Europe,
19
–20,
31
,
69
,
140
,
198
,
214
,
215
,
263

Eastman Kodak,
224

East Timor,
72
,
75
–76,
125
,
137
–38

Eberhart, Ralph E., “Ed,”
79
–80,
121
–22

Echelon,
165
–67

Ecuador, U.S. sponsored military dictatorships in,
75

Edwards Air Force Base (California),
118

Egypt,
81
,
219
,
223
,
242
,
253

Ehime Maru
(Japanese ship),
116

Eighth Army,
203

Eighty-second Airborne Division,
69
,
108
–9,
115
,
120
,
175

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
39
,
53
,
59
,
97
,
117
,
220

Eisenhower,
USS,
153

Ekeus, Rolf,
303

ElBaradei, Mohamed,
304
–5

elections,
312

of 1876,
120

of 1968,
205
–6

of 1992,
144

of 2000,
120
,
174
,
291
,
294

of 2002,
236

of 2004,
236

Eleventh Armored Cavalry Regiment,
147

Ellsberg, Daniel,
10
,
97

Ellsworth Air Force Base (South Dakota),
252

Elmendorf Air Force Base (Alaska),
162

El Salvador,
125
–26,
128
,
136

Embraer company,
279

Endangered Species Act (1973),
123

Enduring Freedom
(Pentagon film),
113

“enemy or illegal combatant,”
4
,
42
,
78
–79,
293
–95

Energy, Department of,
169
,
175
,
306

Energy Information Administration,
169

England, Gordon R.,
63
,
122

Enrile, Juan Ponce,
210

Enron Corporation,
63
,
166
,
169
,
236
,
277

environmental pollution,
8
,
33
,
123
,
198
,
213
,
268

Equatorial Guinea,
311

Eskan Village (Saudi Arabia),
238
–39

Estonia,
300

“ethnic cleansing,”
25
,
72
,
138
,
188

EUCOM,
124

Europe,
29
–30,
33
,
35
–36,
71
,
215
,
234

European Commission on Human Rights,
206

European Parliament,
166

European Union,
269
,
270
,
277
,
283
,
300

Ex Parte Milligan
(1866),
294

Expeditionary Village (Qatar),
248

“extraterritoriality,”
8
,
35
–36

Exxon (ExxonMobil),
172
,
218
,
311

Fahd, king of Saudi Arabia,
179

Faisal, king of Saudi Arabia,
219

Fargo, Thomas B.,
93
,
116

Farrar, Jay,
127

fascists,
203
,
206

federal budget deficit (debt),
45
,
236
,
288
,
307

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
87
,
121
–23,
295
–98

federal government, power of,
44
–45,
47
,
78
–79

Federalist, The,
No. 41,
120

Federalist Party,
191

Feith, Douglas J.,
126
–27,
234
,
235

Feminist Majority Foundation of California,
180

Ferguson, Niall,
242

Ferguson, Thomas,
264

Fifth Fleet,
244

Fighting Seabees
(film),
59

Financial Times,
122
,
233

First Continental Congress,
45

First Marine Division,
24

First Marine Expeditionary Force,
242

First Special Forces Detachment-Delta,
128

FISA Court of Review,
298

Fish and Wildlife Service,
123

Fisher, George,
112

Fisk, Robert,
15

Fleming, Ian,
11
,
67

Florida,
42
,
120

Foch, Ferdinand,
51

Ford, Gerald R.,
75
,
82
,
210
–11,
224

Ford-Marcos agreement (1975),
211

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA),
295
–98

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC),
295
–98

“foreign internal defense” (FID),
124

Foreign Legion, French,
131

foreign military

training of, by U.S.,
124
–26,
132
–40,
175
–76,
206
,
226

use of, by U.S.,
131
,
140
–49

Foreign Military Financing (FMF),
137
,
140

Fort Benning (Georgia),
68
,
136
,
137

Fort Bragg (North Carolina),
108
,
120
,
129
,
136

Fort Campbell (Kentucky),
24
,
107
,
119

Fort George Meade (Maryland),
161

Fort Hood (Texas),
24
,
195

Fort Huachuca (Arizona),
136

Fort Monroe (Virginia),
120

Fort Riley (Kansas)
107
–8

Fort Stewart (Georgia),
24
,
242

4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron,
119

Fourth Amendment,
296
,
297
,
298

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals,
293

Fourth Infantry Division,
24

France,
19
,
75
,
85
,
166
,
184
,
194
,
221
,
263

empire,
43
,
50
,
257
,
310

Iraq and,
232
,
233
,
238
,
287
,
300