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

Citibank (later Citicorp), 266, 274

citizens

loss of rights, 78–79, 285, 293–98

spying on, 122–23, 151, 161–62, 165, 295–98

Citizen Works, 145

Civil War, 52, 54–55, 78

Clark, Wesley, 75

Clark Air Base (Philippines), 193, 208, 209, 211–13

client states, 31, 68

Clinton, Bill, 22, 71, 73, 75, 117, 268

Afghanistan and, 178, 180

defense spending and, 56, 278

East Asian collapse and, 272

East Timor and, 138

globalization and, 255–56, 260–61

Iraq and, 226, 228, 229, 232

military and, 53, 111

North Korea and, 89, 94

oil and, 174–75, 178

Pakistan and, 125

Serbia and, 145

Somalia and, 133

“Coalition Media Center” (Qatar), 249

Cold War, 2, 3, 6, 32–35, 117, 118, 151, 223, 258–59

defense spending and, 54–56, 55

end of, 16–22, 68, 91, 189, 309–10

military bases and, 193–204

Cole, USS, bombing of, 125, 139, 252

Colombia, 3, 42n, 136, 137, 140, 192, 279–80, 288, 311

colonialism, 24, 29–30, 35, 39, 43–44, 50–51, 64–65, 263

Combat Support Associates, 147–48

Combined Air Operations Center (Qatar), 247

Combined Air Operations Center (Saudi Arabia), 240–41

Commerce, Department of, 268

Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization, 82

Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, 300

Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, 122

Commodity Credit Corporation, 224

Communism, 34, 50–52, 64, 170, 188, 193–94, 199, 261

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, 73

Comstock, Barbara, 298

Congressional Government (Wilson), 46

conservatives, 259–60

Constitution, U.S., 12, 44–46, 120, 285, 292–98

containment policy, 6, 23, 188, 193

Contras, 17, 130

Control Supply Company, 2

Cornwell, Rachel, 36

corporations, 13, 145, 207, 267, 271.See also arms industry; multinational corporations; private military companies