Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

Allawi, lyad, 95

Allende, Salvador, 2–3, 105–9

Alliance for Progress, 106

all-volunteer army, 7, 269

al-Qaeda, 4, 36–37, 41, 98, 110, 118–19, 122–24, 143

al-Rashid Military Camp (Iraq), 161

al Sahra airfield (Iraq), 162–63

al Taqaddum military base (Iraq), 162

Al-Udeid Air Base (Qatar), 124, 159

Alwani, Hatim al-, 29

American Aviation Historical Society, 126

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 42–44

American Council for Cultural Policy, 50

American embassies, 104, 107, 133, 168, 183, 188–90, 194

      bombings of 1998, 118–19, 122–23

American empire, 1–11

      British Empire and, 56, 71–76, 80, 84–85

      democracy undercut by, 56, 60, 88–89, 278–79

      economy and, 81, 83–85, 270

      Iraq and, 157–63

      military bases and, 6–7, 138–39, 141, 156–58, 177–207, 278

      neoconservatives and, 73–75, 142–43

      space weaponry and, 211

American Enterprise Institute (AEI), 148–49, 229

American Historical Association, 248

American Indians, 75, 77, 263

American Prospect, 261

American Service-Members’ Protection Act (2002), 145

America Right or Wrong (Lieven), 270

Amritsar, massacre at (1919), 79

Anderson, Frank, 113

Andersson, Arne, 128, 130

Angola, 94

anti-Americanism, 177, 179–80, 194

Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty (1972), 220, 228, 241

antiballistic missile (ABM) defense system, 209–10, 212–14, 220–32

antinuclear movement, 208–9

antisatellite (ASAT) weapons, 209, 214, 216–19, 236, 239–41

anti-Vietnam War movement, 92, 254

Antony, Mark, 67, 68

Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 56

Anwar, Masood, 125–26

Arai, Shogo, 196

Arar, Maher, 128, 268

Arbatov, Aleksei, 228

archaeological sites, 46–47, 51–53

“arc of instability,” 147, 158

Arendt, Hannah, 17, 21–22, 24, 75, 78, 88

Argentina, 3, 108–9, 121, 164, 166–67, 169, 236, 269