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Kenya, 79, 85–87, 121, 279

Kerry, John, 101

Kessler Effect, 217

Keynes, John Maynard, 271–72

Keynesianism, 271–73

Khartoum plant attack, 119

Khomeini, Ayatollah, 2

Khost, Afghanistan, 124

Khostcamp, 118–19

kidnapping. See extraordinary renditions Kikuyu people, 79, 85–87

Kin, Okinawa, 189

kinetic kill vehicles, 218

Kipling, Rudyard, 74

Kirkpatrick, Jeane, 75

Kirkuk.Iraq, 162

Kissinger, Henry, 54–55, 92, 94, 96–97, 104, 106

Kitty Hawk, USS (aircraft carrier), 202, 207

Klein, Naomi, 38

Koh, Harold Hongju, 39

Kohat prison (Pakistan), 124

Kohn, Jerome, 21, 22

Koizumi, Junichiro, 185, 192–93, 198–203, 205–7

Korea, 76

Korean Air Lines, 234

Korean War, 20, 145, 176, 182, 253

Kornbluh, Peter, 107, 108

Kosovo, military base in, 140, 161

Krieble, Helen, 212

Kurds, 28, 87

Kuwait, 26, 28, 48, 148, 150, 158–60

Kwajalein Missile Range (Marshall Islands), 222

Kwiatkowski, Karen, 99, 158

Kyle, Jon, 220

Kyrgyzstan, 6, 140, 147, 151–52

labor, 81, 175, 263, 272

Labor Department, 263

Lady, Robert Seldon, 131, 133–34

Lafontaine, Oskar, 154

Laird, Melvin, 97

laissez-faire, 82, 84

La Maddalena military base (Sardinia), 154

Lancet, 28, 32

Langewiesche, William, 29–30

Laos, 94, 126

Latin America, 101, 147, 163–70

Lawless, Richard P., 192, 202, 204

“law of the flag,” 172

Lebanese immigrants, 166–67

Lebanon, 9, 63, 122

Lee, Barbara, 13

Lee, Burton J., Ill, 45