Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

Arjomand, Said, 51

Arkin, William M., 141, 143

Armey, Dick, 212

Armitage, Richard, 167

Armor Holdings, 262

Army, U.S., 17, 22, 43–45, 47, 153, 163, 179

Army Air Corps, 126

Army Corps of Engineers, 154, 159

Army First Armored Division, 141

Army First Infantry Division, 141

Army Medical Corps, 45

Army Rangers, 40

Army Times, 33

Aruba, 148, 165

Asahi Evening News, 176

Asahi Shimbun, 188, 191, 197

ASEAN Regional Forum (2003), 189–90

Ash, Timothy Carton, 34

Ashcroft, John, 35, 247

Assassination of Julius Caesar, The (Parenti), 56–57

assassinations, 94, 102, 107–9, 250

Assyria, 47–48, 78

“asymmetric warfare,” 2

Atlantic Monthly, 29–30

Atomic Energy Commission, 92

Auerback, Marshall, 271

Augustus Caesar (Octavian), emperor of Rome, 68–69, 266

Austen, Jane, 75

Australia, 148, 157

autonomous proximity operations, 240

Aviano Air Base (Italy), 133, 145

Avrakotos, Gust, 113–16

Aztecs, 76

Babylonia, ancient, 46–47, 52, 78

Baccus, Rick, 42

Bacevich, Andrew, 20

Baer, Robert, 124

Baghdad, 5, 23–24, 33, 47, 49–51, 160–62

Baghdad Burning Web site, 9

Baghdad International Airport, 161–62

Bagram Air Base (Afghanistan), 8, 37, 124, 246

Bahrain, 148, 150, 159

Bahrani, Zainab, 52

Baker, Howard, 188, 189

Baker, Kevin, 14, 74–75

Bakiyev, Kurmanbek, 153

Balad Air Force Base (Iraq), 162–63

Balkans, 63, 122

“banality of evil,” 21–22

Bandura, Albert, 120–21

Baring, Evelyn, Lord Cromer, 74