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

ballistic missile defense (BMD), 34, 83–86, 94, 162, 309

banks, 166, 224, 226, 267, 272

Barabee, Robert, 109

Base Status Report (BSR), 153–55, 198, 202

Bay of Pigs invasion, 11, 34, 301

BBC, 115, 247

BDM International, 140

Bechtel, 166, 308

Beckwith, Charlie A., 123

Belgium, 43, 263

Bell Act (1946), 207–8

Bello, Walden, 268, 269

Bemis, Samuel Flagg, 191

Bengzon, Alfredo, 213

Bennett, William J., 228

Berlin Wall, fall of, 7, 18–20, 34, 69

Berlusconi, Silvio, 275

Beveridge, Albert, 43, 192

Bhutto, Benazir, 176

bin Laden, Osama, 178–81, 227, 229, 231, 232, 236, 305

biological weapons, 77, 129–30

biopiracy, 271–72

Bitburg airfield (Germany), 194

black budget, 56, 117–19

Blair, Dennis, 125

Blair, Tony, 275, 283

Blair House Agreement (1992–93), 270

Blake, George, 10

Blix, Hans, 302

Blowback, 8–9, 11

blowback, 8–9, 121, 227, 288, 300

Board of National Estimates, 218

Boeing, 57, 118, 119, 277–79, 309

Boer War, 82, 307

Bolivia, 75

Bolton, John R., 77, 86, 228, 234

Bondsteel, James L., 143

Bonner, Yelena, 17–18

Bonn International Center for Conversion, 195

Bookman, Jay, 236

Boot, Max, 70

Bosnia, 3, 62, 72, 140, 155

Boston Globe, 78

Bourgeois, Roy, 136–37

Bowen, Alva, 210

Boxer, Barbara, 292

Brazil, 75, 267, 268, 275, 279–80

“Brezhnev Doctrine,” 69