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

imported, 307–8

Iran and, 218, 220, 222–23

military bases and, 151–52, 155, 167–80, 189

Oman and, 250–51

Saudi Arabia and, 218–19, 242

oil crises of 1970s, 259

oil pipelines

Afghanistan and, 176–79

Central Asia and, 167, 170, 172–76, 226

trans-Balkan, 145–46, 155

Okinawa, 6–8, 24, 35, 91, 152, 198–201, 208, 215

North Korea and, 94

rapes by troops in, 6–7, 108

Vietnam War and, 202

Oklahoma City bombing, 121

Oman, 222, 233, 242, 244, 248

military bases in, 24, 215, 250–52

Omar, Mohammed, 231

O’Meara, Kelly, 58

101st Airborne Division, 24

160th Special Operations Air Regiment, 119, 129

1660th Tactical Airlift Wing, 252

Operation Anaconda, 289

Operation Desert Shield, 100

Operation Desert Storm, 80, 100, 147, 198, 225

Operation Enduring Freedom, 113

Operation Just Cause, 69

Operation Northwoods, 301

Operation Urgent Fury, 114

opium trade. See also drug trafficking

Afghanistan and, 177, 180, 181

Indochina and, 134–35

Opium War of 1839–42, 35

Oregon Territory, 191

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 62, 219, 250–51

Origins of Totalitarianism, The (Arendt), 283

Orwell, George, 141

Osan Air Base (South Korea), 91

Osirak reactor raid (Iraq), 70

Oslo Accords, 235

Ota, Masahide, 6

Ottoman empire, 50, 257, 310

Outer Space Treaty (1967), 81

“overloans,” 266

Owen, Glen, 110

Owens, Arne, 136

Pacific Command (PACOM), 93, 124–25

Pacific Fleet, civilian visitors to, 117

Pacific Islanders, 103

Padilla, Jose, 293, 294–95