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

Center for Strategic and International Studies, 127

Central America, 2, 22, 32, 169, 192

Central Asia, 32, 155, 226

military bases in, 24, 168, 175, 183–85, 189–90, 198, 215

oil in, 145, 168, 170–83, 185, 234

Central Asia Gas and Pipeline Consortum (CentGas), 179–80

Central Intelligence Act (1949), 117

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 3, 8, 10, 12, 36, 42n, 64, 68, 128, 162, 163, 203, 267, 295–96, 308

Afghanistan and, 11, 139, 181, 182, 222

assassinations and, 136

commercial espionage by, 166

Greece and, 205–6

Indonesia and, 209

information on citizens collected by, 122–23

Iran and, 220

Iraq and, 11, 126–27, 223–24, 232, 302, 303, 305, 306

Laos and, 134

Latin America and, 34

Panama and, 69

Pentagon vs., 123, 126–29

Philippines and, 209, 213

Saudi Arabia and, 218

secret budget of, 117

Soviet Union and, 18

Special Activities Division, 11

Yemen strike by, 27

Chechnya, 72, 172, 173, 175

chemical weapons, 101, 129–30, 225

Cheney, Dick, 6, 20, 82, 130, 174, 248, 286

Afghanistan and, 179

Halliburton and, 144–46, 184

Iraq war and, 126, 227–28, 233, 302–3, 308

Chevron (ChevronTexaco,formerly SoCal), 172–74, 218

Chiang Kai-shek, 36, 86

Chicago Tribune, 113

Chief Peter J. Ganci Jr. Air Base (Kyrgyzstan), 183–84

Chile, 9, 75, 193, 224, 267

China, 9, 20, 29–31, 34, 35, 43, 50, 54, 58, 61, 71, 86, 94, 188, 189, 193, 222, 272, 290

Bush II and, 83–88

empire of, 310

Japan and, 48, 50, 131

oil and, 169, 170, 234

Chirac, Jacques, 300

Christianity, 43, 47, 138, 285, 287

Christopher, Warren, 163

Chun Doo-hwan, 89

Churchill, Winston, 91

Cicero, 285

CINCs (commanders in chief), 121–22, 124–26