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

Monsanto, 271

Montagnards, 131

Montana National Guard, 175

Monteith, Jimmy W., Jr., 143

Moore, Demi, 112

“moral hazard,” 266

moral truth, Bush II and, 286–87

Moran, Michael, 155

Moron Air Base (Spain), 204

Moro National Liberation Front (Philippines), 210

Morris, Roger, 223

Mossadeq, Mohammad, 220

Mosul, National Museum looted (Iraq), 234

Mount Pinatubo volcano, 209, 213

MSNBC, 113

multilateral development banks, 63

multilateralism, 80

multinational corporations, 26, 30–31, 219, 267, 271, 277

munitions companies, 133, 277

Munnich, Eric, 92

Murray, Patty, 57

Murtopo, Ali, 76

Musharraf, Pervez, 125, 182

mutual defense treaties, 31

Mutual Defense Treaty (U.S. Philippines), 209

“Mutual Logistics Support Agreement” (Philippines), 213–14

Myers, Richard B., 79, 249

Nader, Ralph, 145

Nagorno-Karabakh, 174

Nagy, Imre, 19

Napoleonic Wars, 221, 257

Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 219, 223

National Defense University (Washington, DC), 136

national energy policy (Cheney Report, 2001), 169

National Geographic (TV show), 113

National Guard, 46, 107, 175

number of, 102

National Hot Rod Association, 98

National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), 117, 127

National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), 79, 80, 117, 118, 127, 155, 162, 311

National Security Agency (NSA), 36, 117–18, 127, 155, 161–62

computer failure, 288

U.S. citizens and, 165, 166, 296

National Security Council, 20, 173, 179, 181, 223, 228

National Security Decision Directive 114, 224

National Security Strategy (NSS) (1990), 20–21 (2002), 33–34, 90, 151, 286–88

National Space Symposium, 79–80, 311

National System of Political Economy, The (List), 262

Native Americans, 2, 43, 103, 190

NATO, 80, 140, 154, 164, 194, 204