Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

Social Security, 272

SOFAs. See Status of Forces Agreements

Soldiers’ Satellite Network, 239

Solovtsov, Nikolai, 228

Somoza, Anastasio, 19

Sorrows of Empire, The, 5, 6, 10–11, 278

Soto Cano Air Base (Honduras), 146–47, 164–65

South Africa, 79, 87, 157

Southern Command (Southcom), 44, 61, 147, 163–65, 167

South Korea, 3, 19, 104, 142–43, 145, 150, 156, 172–73, 176–77, 201, 221, 236

South Pacific Mail (Chilean newspaper), 106

South Vietnam, 19, 250

Soviet Union (USSR), 14, 97–98, 105–6, 110–12, 115–17, 135, 148, 172, 216, 223–24, 274–75

      collapse of, 1, 20, 117, 142, 152, 157, 210–11, 228

space, 208–21, 225, 232–42

Space Shuttle, 237

Space Surveillance Network, 216

Space Warfare Center, 239

Spain, 10, 19, 63, 76, 150, 154, 156

Spangdahlem Air Base (Germany), 155

Spanish-American War, 20, 163

Spataro, Armando, 132

special access programs (SAPs), 40, 229

Special Forces, 4, 31, 40, 100, 128, 147, 163–65, 168–69

Speicher, Michael, 163

Spinney, Franklin C., 230, 264

Spolar, Christine, 159

spy satellites, 221, 223, 233

stagflation, 274

Stahl, Lesley, 25

Stalinism, 275

standing armies, 22, 60, 65–66, 70, 273, 279

“Star Wars” (Strategic Defense Initiative, SDI), 199–200, 208–9, 223–24, 228

State Department, 15, 21, 27, 104, 144, 152, 167, 177, 188, 263, 268, 276

state terrorism, 102, 112, 163, 243

Status of Forces Agreements (SOFAs), 144, 149, 171–207

Steel, Ronald, 90, 273

Stephens, Joe, 124

Stern, Jessica, 167

Stevens, Ted, 265

Stiglitz, Joseph, 277

Stinger missiles, 114, 116–17

Streetcar Named Desire, A (Williams), 271

Strengthening U.S. Global Defense Posture (DOD report), 149

Stroessner, Alfredo, 169

Studies on Persianate Societies, 51

Subic Bay naval base (Philippines), 207

Sudan, 79, 94

Suetonius, 56, 64–65

Suez Canal, 87