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Seventh Army, 196

Seventh Fleet, 109, 201, 208–9

763rd Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, 250

sex industry, military bases and, 211

sexual assaults and rapes

military bases and, 6–7, 37, 92–93, 108, 198

private military companies and, 140

U.S.-trained troops and, 136

of women in armed forces, 105–6, 108

Seychelles, 221

shah of Iran. See Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza, shah of Iran

Shaikh Isa Air Base (Bahrain), 245–46

Shakespeare, William, 16

Sharon, Ariel, 234, 235

Shi’ites, Iraqi, 224, 232–33

Shimkus, John, 111

Shining Path, 264

“shock and awe,” 222, 290

Shughart, Randy, 133

Sierra Leone, 135

Sigint (signals intelligence) bases, 164–65

Sikh mercenaries, 131, 134

Sikorsky, 279

Simbulan, Roland G., 213

Sin, Jaime, 212

Singapore, 263

Sino-Soviet split, 9, 31

Sites 51, 53, 54 (Israel), 153

614th Space Intelligence Squadron, 83

Sixteenth Amendment, 46

Sixth Amendment, 293, 298

Slate, 309

Slipchenko, Vladimir, 288

Slovakia, 300

Slovenia, 300

small-arms trade, 26, 77–78

Smith, Adam, 260

SoCal. See Standard Oil Company of California

Socony-Vacuum (Mobil), 218

“Soldiers Should Not Be Spying” (Korb and Tepperman), 130

Somalia, 3, 62, 72, 133, 144

Soros, George, 256, 273

Souda Bay base (Greece), 205

South Africa, 81, 82, 135

South America, 190.See Latin America; and specific countries

South Carolina, elections of 1876, 120

SOUTHCOM, 124

Southeast Asia, 34, 82