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.
army, 44–45, 62, 63, 105.
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
Ashcroft, John, 294, 295, 297–98
Asiatic Squadron, 41
assassinations, 68, 133, 136, 291
Atlacatl Battalion, 126
Atlantic Charter (1941), 200
atomic bombs.
secrecy and, 12
used on Japan, 35, 52, 198–99, 290
Atsugi Naval Air Station (Japan), 201
Augustus, emperor of Rome (Octavian), 16
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
