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Itochu Oil Exploration company,
179

ITT corporation,
147

Iwakuni Air Station (Japan),
201

Jackson, Bruce,
300

Jacobadad military base (Pakistan),
182

“Jam Echelon Day,”
166

Jane’s Intelligence Review,
304

Japan,
31
,
34
,
68
,
215

constitution of,
199

economy of,
259
,
263
,
264

Gulf War I and,
25
,
307

imperialism of,
43
–44,
48
,
50
,
71
,
131
,
310

military bases in,
7
,
8
,
56
,
108
,
109
,
190
,
198
–203,
202

North Korea and,
91
,
92
,
94

nuclear weapons and,
12
,
201
–2

oil and,
179

Pearl Harbor attack by,
286
,
300

remilitarization of,
87

trade and,
16
,
26
,
96

Jebel Ali port (UAE),
250

Jefferson, Thomas,
191
,
298

Jennings, Peter,
304

Jerusalem Post,
235

Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs,
234

Jimmy Carter,
USS (submarine),
163

jingoism,
39
–40,
67

John C. Stennis,
USS (aircraft carrier),
112

Johnson, Lyndon B.,
59
,
61
,
97
,
140
,
205
,
208
,
223
,
236
,
301

Johnson, U. Alexis,
201

Johnstone, Diana,
33

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS),
52
–53,
61
,
62
,
79
,
226
,
249

creation of,
45
–46

intelligence agency of,
117

terrorism proposals of, to JFK,
53
,
301

Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET),
137
–38,
140

Joint Committee to Conduct the War,
52

Joint Direct Attack munitions (smart bomb),
280

Joint Intelligence Center (Saudi Arabia),
240
–241

“Joint Task Force-Civil Support,”
120

Joint U.S. Military Advisory Group (Philippines),
209

Jones, Elizabeth,
185

Jones, James L.,
198

Jordan,
137
,
253

Judge Advocate General Corps,
111
–12

Justice, Department of,
87
,
293
,
298

Kadena Air Force Base (Okinawa),
8
,
154
,
252

Kagan, Robert,
228

Kandahar International Airport base (Afghanistan),
182

Kaplan, Fred,
309

Kaplan, Lawrence F,
85

Kaplan, Robert D.,
68

Karamanlis, Constantine,
206

Karamursel, Turkey (listening post),
162

Karimov, Islam,
172
,
184

Karzai, Hamid,
140
,
178
,
179
,
182

Kashmir,
70
,
72

Kassem, Abdel-Karim,
223

Kazakhstan,
169
,
170
–75,
184
,
185

Kazakhstan Oil Advisory Board,
174

Keller, Bill,
85

Kellogg-Briand pact (1928),
78

Kellogg Brown & Root company,
140
,
143
–46,
184
,
308

Kennedy, John F,
6
,
11
,
97
,
117
,
236
,
286

Kennedy, Paul,
71

Kenya, embassy attack (1998),
139
,
178
,
180

Kerr, John,
163

Keynes, John Maynard,
265
,
266

Khalilzad, Zalmay,
178
–79,
181
,
228

Khanabad base (Uzbekistan),
144
,
184

Khobar Towers (Saudi Arabia) bombing (1996),
238
,
240
,
243

Khomeini, Ayatollah,
222

Kiesling, John,
287

Kiknadze, Mirian,
175

Killingray, David,
131

Kim Dae-jung,
90
,
93
,
94

Kim Il-sung,
94

Kim Jong-il,
90
,
91
,
172

King Abdul Aziz Air Base (Saudi Arabia),
219
,
238

Kissinger, Henry,
75
–76,
178
,
206

Kitty Hawk,
USS,
109
–10

Klemmer, Andreas,
195

Korb, Lawrence J.,
130

Korean Demilitarized Zone,
92

Korean War,
53
,
56
,
58
,
59
,
86
,
91
,
102
,
110
,
142
,
209

military bases and,
35
,
189
,
190
,
202

Kosovo,
62
,
72
,
79
,
101
,
144

military bases in,
5
,
143
,
145
,
155
,
215

Krauthammer, Charles,
67
–68

Kristol, William,
228

Kuhn, James,
113

Kunkle, Steven,
109

Kunsan Air Base (South Korea),
92

Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalists),
36
,
86

Kurds,
172
,
223
,
225
,
228
,
232
–33

Kuwait,
217
,
222
,
230
–33,
244

Gulf War I and,
21
,
62
,
100
–101,
219
,
225
–26,
230
–31,
307

military bases in,
144
,
146
–49,
226
,
237
,
241
,
242
–44

Kyoto Protocol on global warming,
76
,
256

KYP (Greek intelligence),
205

Kyrgyzstan,
175

military bases in,
5
,
170
,
172
–73,
183
–84,
203
,
214
,
226
,
242

labor laws,
259

La Maddalena Island (Italy),
163

“land for peace,”
235

Lansing, Robert,
49
,
50
,
51

Laos,
134

Latin America,
2
,
20
,
21
,
32
,
34
,
215
.
See also
SOUTHCOM

globalization and,
261
,
264
,
266

interventions in,
69
,
193

military bases in,
8
,
168
,
190
–93

military training in,
132
,
136
,
194

oil and,
168
,
311

state terrorism in,
68

weapons sales to,
279
–80

Latvia,
300

League of Nations,
50
,
51

Leahy, Patrick J.,
125

Lebanon,
235

Ledeen, Michael,
234

Lee, Wen-ho,
87

Lee Ki Sun,
92

Lemnitzer, Lyman,
301

Leninism,
50

Leno, Jay,
180

Leno, Mavis,
180

Lewis, Flora,
77

Lexus and the Olive Tree, The
(Friedman),
273

Libby, I. Lewis,
228

liberalism, classical,
261

Libya,
290

Lili’oukalani, queen of Hawaii,
42

Lincoln, Abraham,
52

Lindquist, Sven,
28

Link, Arthur S.,
47

List, Friedrich,
262

listening posts, overseas,
155
,
161
–65

Lithuania,
300

Lockheed Martin,
57
,
62
–63,
79
,
80
,
119
,
161
,
278
,
280
,
309

Lodge, Henry Cabot,
51
,
80
,
192

“lone superpower,”
4
,
44
,
67
,
72
,
274
,
284
,
307

Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons laboratory,
87

Lott, Trent,
228

Louisiana, election of 1876 and,
120

Louisiana National Guard,
175

LST-883,
USS,
142

L3 Communications,
140
,
141

Lula da Silva, Luiz,
280

Lumpe, Lora,
132

Lusitania,
sinking of,
48
–49

Lutzenburger, Jose,
268

Lynch, Jessica,
99

MacArthur, Douglas,
53

McCoy, Alfred,
134
–35

MacDill Air Force Base (Florida),
129
,
223
,
237
,
249

McDonnell Douglas,
119
,
278

Macedonia,
300

McGovern, Ray,
305

McKinley, William,
41
,
43
,
44
,
45

McMaster,H.R.,
61

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