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oil, 6, 46, 51, 142, 147–48, 158, 162, 165–66, 199, 203, 219

oil for food program, 28

Okinawa, 3, 171, 173–74, 177–207

Oklahoma City bombing, 231

Oliphant, Jermaine, 183

Oman, 94, 148, 159

“Omar, Abu” (Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr), 131–34

Omar, Mullah Mohammed, 31, 118

Omdurman, battle of, 79

“1-4-2-1” defense strategy, 143

101st Airborne Division, 42, 162

O’Neill, Tip, 115

On the Spirit of the Laws (Montesquieu), 16

Oosterlinck, Rene, 235

Operation Condor, 108, 112

Operation Enduring Freedom, 276

Operation Goldenrod, 121–22

Operation Infinite Justice, 76

Operation Iraqi Freedom, 76, 143, 159, 232

Operation Just Cause, 76

Operation Urgent Fury, 18–19

Opium wars, 77

Opus Dei, 112

Orbital Debris Quarterly News, 219

Origins of Totalitarianism, The (Arendt), 22

Ornstein, Norman, 229

Ota, Masahide, 181–82

Ottoman Empire, 14, 46, 49, 87

Outer Space Treaty (1967), 241

Overseas Basing Commission, 147, 150–51, 158, 160

Ozaki, Hotsumi, 279

Pacom, 61, 202

Pakistan, 35–36, 87–88, 111–13, 115–17, 119, 124–26, 148, 236

Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), 112, 116, 118

Palestinians, 3

Panama, 3, 76, 261

PanAmSat, 238

Paraguay, 108, 163, 165–70

Parenti, Michael, 56–57, 62, 67

Passage to India, A (Forster), 80

Patriot PAC-3 missile, 220, 227

“Patterns of Terrorism” (State Department report), 167

Pax Americana, 58

Pax Romana, 58–59, 69

Pearl Harbor, 93, 95

Pentagon. See Defense Department

People for the American Way, 247

Perez Esquivel, Adolfo, 170

Perle, Richard, 211

Peron, Juan, 70

Persian Gulf, 140, 148, 150, 163