Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

Vikan, Gary, 50–51

Virgil, 57

Voltaire, 120

von Braun, Wernher, 232

Wade, Mitchell, 260–61

Wagner, Richard, 11

Wagner Act, 272

Wag the Dog (film), 119

Wahhabi movement, 117

Wald, Charles, 137

Wall Street Journal, 275–76

war, 274, 279. See also preemptive or preventive war

      of choice, 20–22

      Congress and, 16, 253

      liberty and, 18, 62

      powers of presidency and, 249–53

War Crimes Act (1996), 37

war crimes tribunals, 39–40, 200–201

Warden, John A., III, 27

Warner, John W., 34, 45

War of the Triple Alliance (1865-70), 170

war on drugs, 164–65

war on terror, 35–37, 91, 99, 152, 164, 167–68, 199, 231–32, 244–45, 255, 261, 275–78

War Powers Act (1973), 13, 250

Washington, George, 15, 16

Washington Post, 26, 38, 45, 98, 106, 112, 124–26, 160, 163, 209, 214, 257

Wastrels of Defense (Wheeler), 265–66

Watergate scandal, 92, 94, 247, 249

weapons. See also defense contractors; defense spending; and specific weapons

      Afghanistan and, 113–14, 116–17

      corruption and, 229–30

      domestic bases and, 138

      of mass destruction, 98–100

      military Keynesianism and, 273, 275–76

      prepositioned, 147

      space and, 209–18, 233, 240–42

Weekly Standard, 38

Weiner, Tim, 135, 209–10

Weldon, Curt, 212

Weller, Jerry, 262

Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (formerly School of the Americas), 163

West Germany, 94

Westmoreland, William, 96–97

Wheeler, Winslow, 265–66

White, Thomas D., 208

“White Man’s Burden, The” (Kipling), 74

Wicksell, Joshua, 52

Wiesbaden, Germany, military bases in, 153

Wilkes, Brent, 260–62

Will, George, 244