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

U.S. Supreme Court, 120, 174, 294, 296, 298

universities, 26, 32, 111–12, 141–42, 272, 278

University of Michigan Law School, 104

Uruguay, 75

“Uruguay Round,” 269

Uzbekistan, 137, 172, 175, 178

military bases in, 5, 144, 170, 173, 181, 183, 184, 203, 214, 215, 226, 242

Vagts, Alfred, 24, 30, 60

Vang Pao, 134

V Corps, 196, 242

Venezuela, 267

Veracruz occupation, 47

Veterans Administration (VA), 100–101

veterans, 52, 58–59, 100–101

“Victory Changes Everything” (Krauthammer), 67–68

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969), 74

Vieques Island base controversy, 152

Vietcong, 131

“Vietnamization,” 135–36

Vietnam War, 3, 6, 9, 10, 31, 33, 34, 82, 112, 239

armed forces demographics, 102, 104

Bush II and, 287

“credibility gap” and, 114

domestic politics and, 236

economic impact of, 56, 259, 265

foreign troops in, 131–32, 134–36, 208, 209

Gulf of Tonkin and, 301

“lessons” of, 60, 81

medical effects of, 100

militarism and, 59–61, 64

military bases and, 35, 189, 200, 202–4, 207, 209–11

racism and, 109

special forces in, 128

Vietnam War Memorial, 59

Villa, Francisco “Pancho,” 47

Vilnius Ten, 300

Vinnell Corporation, 135, 140, 148–49, 237–38, 242

“Vision for 2020” (Space Command policy statement), 81

Vuono, Carl E., 141

VX nerve agent, 302

Waco, Texas, assault of 1993, 121

Waddle, Scott D., 116

Waldron, Michael, 107

Wallerstein, Immanuel, 287

Wall Street Journal, 163

Wal-Mart, 144

Walsh, Jim, 85

war. See also “preventive war”

citizens in armed forces, 64