The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic

recruitment of, 97–99, 102–3, 107, 110–14

Armed Forces Recreational Center for Europe, 197

Armenia, 172, 174

Armitage, Richard, 62, 174, 213, 228

Armor Holdings, 140

arms industry, 57, 61–64, 277–81. See also weapons sales

army, 44–45, 62, 63, 105. See also Special Forces

black programs, 118

demographics, 60, 78, 104

Army Appropriations Bill (1901), 41

Army Corps of Engineers, 144, 145, 219, 243, 250

Army Forces Central Command—Kuwait (ARCENT-KU), 147

Army Forces Central Command—Saudi Arabia (ARCENT-SA), 238

Army National Guard, 102

Army Rangers, 69, 109, 115, 124, 129

Army Reserve, 102

Army War College, 46, 289

Art of War, The (Sun Tzu), 255

Ashcroft, John, 294, 295, 297–98

Asiatic Squadron, 41

assassinations, 68, 133, 136, 291

Atlacatl Battalion, 126

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 236

Atlantic Charter (1941), 200

atomic bombs.See also nuclear weapons

secrecy and, 12

used on Japan, 35, 52, 198–99, 290

Atsugi Naval Air Station (Japan), 201

Augustus, emperor of Rome (Octavian), 16

Austin Chronicle, 144

Austo-Hungarian empire, 310

Australia, 30, 31, 162–63, 165, 283

Australia Defense Signals Directorate, 165

Austria, 19

Austro-Hungarian empire, 50

Avant, Deborah, 141

Aviano Air Force Base (Italy), 239

“axis of evil,” 4, 20, 77, 245

Ayios Nikolaos (Cyprus), 162

Azerbaijan, 137, 168, 169, 172, 174, 175, 184

Baccus, Rick, 42

Bacevich, Andrew, 67

Bad Aibling Air Force Base (Germany), 162

Bagram Air Base (Afghanistan), 115, 182

Bahrain, 24, 215, 221–22, 233, 242, 244–46, 248

Baker, James A., III, 174

Baker Botts firm, 174

Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline project, 174–76

Balkans, 8, 15, 143–46, 189, 190, 198, 236