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Bridas company, 176–77, 179, 180

Bridges at Toko-Ri, The (Michener), 58

Brinkley, David, 113

British East India Company, 31

British Empire, 2, 5, 24, 30, 31, 43, 50, 191, 257. See also Great Britain

Boer War and, 82

decline, 219, 310

economy and, 261, 307

logic of, 81

as model, 25, 67, 68, 70

Persian Gulf and, 217–18

sepoys used by, 131, 134, 135, 138–39

British First Armored Division, 242

British fleet, 40

British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), 165

British Ministry of Defense, 164

British Petroleum (BP-Amoco), 167, 177, 220

Brokaw, Tom, 113, 231

Brooks, Vincent, 249

Brown, Ron, 268

Brown & Root.See Kellogg Brown & Root company

Bryan, William Jennings, 49

Bryce, Robert, 144

Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 178

Bulgaria, 146, 300

Bulgheroni, Carlos, 176

Bundy, McGeorge, 97

Bunning, Jim, 292

Bunting, Madeleine, 284

Burgas International Airport, 146

Burma, 131, 176

Bush, George H. W. (Bush I), 17, 20, 60, 82, 69, 126, 127, 173, 174, 178, 233

Iraq and, 217, 225–28, 230, 232

Bush, George W. (Bush II), 1, 4, 33–34,75, 133, 141, 213, 275

Afghanistan and, 42, 176, 178, 179, 181

appointments by, 62–64, 79–83

“axis of evil” and, 64, 245

Central Asia and, 172–75, 184

China and, 87, 88

defense spending and, 56, 118, 281

democracy threatened by, 291–97

German bases and, 198

Iraq war, 10–11, 73, 217, 224, 227–36, 302, 304–6, 308

Latin America and, 261

military growth under, 122–23

military imperialism of, vs. Clinton’s economic, 255–57

North Korea and, 88–95

nuclear weapons and, 290–91

oil imports and, 307–8