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

Allende, Salvador, 9, 267

al-Masirah Air Base (Oman), 4, 252

al-Musnana Air Base (Oman), 251–52

al-Qaeda, 4, 27, 88, 129, 130, 175, 178, 189, 236

Iraq ties claimed, 126–27, 231–32, 305–6

9/11 attacks and, 227, 291

U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia and, 241

war on Afghanistan and, 181–82, 289

Altair Voyager (oil tanker), 173

al-Udeid air base (Qatar), 4, 241, 247–48

Amboinese, 131

American Enterprise Institute, 235, 275

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 105

American Revolution, 120, 190

America’s Army (computer game), 97–98

Amnesty International, 167

Amoco (British Petroleum-Amoco), 172, 177, 178

Amritsar Massacre (1919), 70

Andaman Islands, 70

Andrews, Evander, 248

Anglo-Persian Oil Company, 220

Angola, 135, 311

Annapolis, 104

Ansar al Islam, 232

anthrax, 224, 291

Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (1972), 73, 83, 256

Apocalypse Now (film), 112

Appy, Christian, 60

Aquino, Benigno “Ninoy,” 210, 211

Aquino, Corazon Cojuangco, 211, 212

Arabian-American Oil Company (Aramco), 218–19

Arab-Israeli War of 1967, 224

Arbenz, Jacobo, 34

Area 51 (Nevada), 118, 119

Area Support Groups (ASGs), 196–97

Arendt, Hannah, 257, 261, 283

Argentina, 75, 255, 267, 274, 276–77

Arizona National Guard, 175

Arkin, William M., 153, 288, 299

armed forces, 32, 97–113, 134. See also standing army in peacetime

active reserves, 102–4

all-volunteer, 54, 60, 97–99

behavior of, abroad, 5–8, 18–24, 36–37, 92–93

crime and racism in, 5–8, 55, 92, 107–10

currently deployed, 196, 198, 202, 288

demographics and, 99, 102–7

draft and, end of, 54, 59–60

DU ammunition and, 100–102

Iraq war of 2003, 283