The Sorrows of Empire (68 page)
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Authors: Chalmers Johnson
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Murray, Patty,
57
Murtopo, Ali,
76
mutual defense treaties,
31
Mutual Defense Treaty (U.S. Philippines),
209
“Mutual Logistics Support Agreement” (Philippines),
213
–14
Nader, Ralph,
145
Nagorno-Karabakh,
174
Nagy, Imre,
19
National Defense University (Washington, DC),
136
national energy policy (Cheney Report, 2001),
169
National Geographic
(TV show),
113
number of,
102
National Hot Rod Association,
98
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO),
79
,
80
,
117
,
118
,
127
,
155
,
162
,
311
computer failure,
288
National Security Strategy (NSS) (1990),
20
–21 (2002),
33
–34,
90
,
151
,
286
–88
National System of Political Economy, The
(List),
262
Bush II and,
83
formation of,
222
Serbia and,
75
Naval Reserve,
102
Naval Special Warfare Center,
136
black programs,
118
defense budget and,
62
number in,
78
Navy SeaBees,
245
Nazarbayev, Nursultan,
172
Nea Makri Communications Station (Greece),
205
Nellis Air Force Base (Nevada),
119
neoclassical economics,
260
neoconservatives,
70
–71
neofascists,
204
Netanyahu, Benjamin,
235
neutron bombs,
290
Nevatim Airfield (Israel),
153
“new economy,”
260
newly industrialized countries (NICs),
262
New People’s Army (NPA) (Philippines),
210
news media (press)
Afghan war and,
115
antiglobalization protests and,
275
China spy plane collision and,
88
deception operations and,
299
Grenada and,
114
–15
military recruitment and,
112
–15
sanitized expressions used by,
4
on SOA,
136
special forces and,
128
Taliban and,
180
WW II and,
52
New Yorker,
305
New York Journal,
40
New York
magazine,
249
New York World,
40
Niebuhr, Reinhold,
309
Niger uranium claim,
304
–5
Nixon Doctrine,
135
Nobel, Alfred, Robert, and Ludwig,
168
No Child Left Behind Act (2001),
111
nonaligned countries,
258
Noriega, Manuel,
69
North, Oliver,
130
North Africa,
15
Northern Command,
121
–22
North Vietnam,
134
Novartis,
271
Nuclear Posture Review (2002),
290
Bush II and “low yield” or “mini,”
290
–91
North Korea and,
94
Philippines and,
212
–13
special operations and,
129
–30
Oakley, Robert,
178
Obrenovic, Dragan,
75
Occidental Petroleum,
311
Office for Global Communications,
299
Office of Defense Trade Controls,
133
Office of National Estimates,
9
–10
Office of Strategic Influence,
298
–99
Africa and,
311
imported,
307
–8
Oman and,
250
–51
oil crises of 1970s,
259
oil pipelines
Afghanistan and,
176
–79
North Korea and,
94
Vietnam War and,
202
Oklahoma City bombing,
121
Omar, Mohammed,
231
O’Meara, Kelly,
58
101st Airborne Division,
24
1660th Tactical Airlift Wing,
252
Operation Anaconda,
289
Operation Desert Shield,
100
Operation Enduring Freedom,
113
Operation Just Cause,
69
Operation Northwoods,
301
Operation Urgent Fury,
114
opium trade.
See also
drug trafficking
Indochina and,
134
–35
Opium War of 1839–42,
35