Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (64 page)

Camp Taji (Iraq),
161
–62

Camp Victory North (Iraq),
161

Camp Zama (Japan),
202
,
204
,
206

Canada,
157

Cannae, battle of,
58

capitalism,
164
,
272

capital markets,
80
–81

Carlucci, Frank,
211

Carr, E. H.,
54

Carter, Jimmy,
109
,
110
,
115
,
158
,
254

Carthage,
58
,
63
,
74

Casey, George,
44

Casey, William,
112
–13

Cassius,
67
–68

Castiglioni, Luis,
168

Castro, Fidel,
96
,
102
–3,
105
,
164

Castro, Juanita,
105

Catholic Church,
112

CBS News
,
41
–42,
123

CBS TV,
25
,
239

Cecil, Robert Gascoyne- (Lord Salisbury),
74

Center for Defense Information,
215
,
222
,
225
,
237
,
239

Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies,
168

Center for National Security Studies,
249

Center for Responsive Politics,
260

Center for Security Policy (CSP),
211
–13,
225

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments,
230

Central Asia,
140
,
151
–53

Central Bank of Iraq,
48
,
50

Central Command (Centcom),
15
,
51
,
61
,
76
,
158
,
160

Central Intelligence Act (1949),
94

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
2
–3,
10
,
21
,
90
–136,
212
,
246
,
249
–50

      Afghanistan and,
104
,
110
–20

      al-Qaeda and,
36
–37

      budget of,
115
,
275

      Chile and,
2
–3,
104
–10

      Congress and,
91
,
94
–95,
250

      covert operations and,
93
–94,
102
–35

      creation and purpose of,
93
–95,
134
–35

      extraordinary rendition and,
36
,
104
,
120
–35,
152
,
268

      findings,
103
–4

      future of,
269

      Iran and,
2
,
93

      Iraq and,
95
,
98
–100

      Italy and,
131

      Japan and,
178

      leaks and,
91
,
100
–102

      Nicaraguan Contras and,
165

      Pakistan and,
112
,
116

      plausible deniability and,
102
–4

      president and,
17
,
90
–93,
95
–96,
135
–36,
246

      Saudi Arabia and,
112
,
118

      torture and,
23
–24,
35
–37,
40
,
120
,
258

CIA Counterterrorism Center,
122
,
124

Chad,
148

Challenger space shuttle,
217

Chávez, Hugo,
20
,
164
,
166

Cheney, Dick,
7
,
15
,
21
,
95
,
98
–99,
101
,
168
,
193
,
246
,
249
–51,
258

Chicago Tribune
,
128
,
159

child mortality,
25
–29

Chile,
2
–3,
19
,
94
,
104
–10,
121
,
163
,
167
,
236
,
250

Chilean Army Directorate of National Intelligence (DINA),
108
–9

Chilean Christian Democratic Party,
105

Chilean Congress,
106
,
107

Chilean National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture,
108

China,
8
,
14
,
54
–55,
76
,
78
,
83
–84,
94
,
119
–20,
116
,
157
,
198
–201,
204
–5,
207
,
215
,
221
–22,
236
–37,
240
,
252
,
269
–71,
279

Chinese Television Network,
239

Christianity,
4
,
55
,
70
,
76

Christian Science Monitor
,
141
,
148

Christie, Agatha,
52

Christine, Anthony,
43

Chun Doo-Hwan,
19

Church, Frank,
93
,
104
,
250

Church Committee,
93
–94,
102
–5,
250

Ciarrocca, Michelle,
212
,
230

Cicero,
56
–57,
59
–61,
63
,
66
–68

Cicero
(Everitt),
56

citizens, rights of,
59
–60,
63

Citizens Against Government Waste,
264

Civilian Conservation Corps,
272
,
273

civilians, war and,
8
–9,
24
–33

“civilizing mission,”
71
–72,
75
–76

civil liberties,
267

Clarke, Richard A.,
34
,
99
,
120

Clarke Orbit,
238

“clash of civilizations,”
46

class struggle,
62

Claudius, emperor of Rome,
69
–70

Cleopatra, queen of Egypt,
68

Clinton, Bill,
34
,
96
,
99
,
119
–20,
122
–23,
142
–43,
181
,
194
,
210
,
213
,
215
,
220
,
235
,
248
,
255
,
275

Clinton v. New York
,
258

CNN Airport Channel,
239

Cockburn, Patrick,
31

Cohen, Nick,
137

Cold War,
17
,
20
,
35
,
50
,
82
,
94
,
111
,
118
,
135
,
230
,
274
–75

Cole
, USS, attack on,
123
,
125

Coleman, Dan,
121

Coll, Steve,
98
,
112
–13,
117

collateral damage,
24
–33,
121
,
225

Colombia,
164
–65

Colossus
(Ferguson),
80

Comalapa military base (El Salvador),
165

Combatant Status Review Tribunals,
267

“comfort women,”
24
,
121

“command responsibility,”
39
–40

Commerce Department,
253
,
263

Commission on Review of Overseas Military Facility Structure,
137

Commission to Assess United States

      National Security Space Management and Organization (Rumsfeld report of 2001),
213
–15,
241

Common Aero Vehicle (CAV),
209

communism,
16
,
82
,
84
,
111
,
164

Computer Sciences Corporation,
257

concentration camps,
86

Condor Years, The
(Dinges),
108

Congo/Zaire,
3
,
19

Congressional Budget Office,
212

Congressional Research Service,
276

Conrad, Joseph,
45
,
76
,
78

conscience, lack of,
21
–22

Constantine, emperor of Rome,
55

Constitutional Convention of 1787,
16
.
See also
U.S. Constitution

consuls, Roman,
61
–62,
66

containment,
148
,
274

“Contract with America,”
212

Contras.
See
Iran-Contra; Nicaragua

Contreras, Manuel,
108
–9

Convention on the Presence of Foreign

      Forces in the Federal Republic of Germany (1954),
171

Cook, Robin,
14
–15,
100

Cooperative Security Locations (CSLs, “lily pads”),
147
–48,
153
,
155
,
164
–70

Coors family,
212

Copper Green SAP,
40
–41

Coriolanus
(Shakespeare),
56

Corona spy satellites,
216

Corriere della Sera
(newspaper),
154
,
155

corruption,
59
,
229
–31,
259
–68

Council of Europe,
123

Council on Foreign Relations Study Group on Space Weapons,
217
–18

Counter-intelligence Field Activity (C1FA),
256
–57

counternarcotics flights,
165

“counterspace operations,”
215
–16

coups d’état,
20
,
106
–8,
250

Coyle, Philip,
210
,
223
,
227

Craig, Larry,
262

Crewdson, John,
128

crime, military bases and,
175
–76,
178
–93,
198
,
206
–7

Crisis and Leviathan
(Higgs),
277

Cross, Suzanne,
66

cruise missiles,
218
,
234

Cuba,
3
,
19
–20,
94
,
96
,
102
–3,
105
,
163
.
See also
Guantanamo Bay

Cuidad del Este (Paraguay),
166
–67

Cunningham, Randy “Duke,”
260
–61

Curacao military base,
148
,
165

current account deficits,
270
–71

Curtis, John,
48
,
52

Dahlgren, Hans,
128

Daily American
(Italian newspaper),
106

Dakar military base (Senegal),
147
–48

DalBello, Richard,
238

Daoud, Sardar Mohammed,
111

Darby, Joseph M.,
22

Darnell, Daniel,
239

Darwinism,
76
,
79

data mining,
251
,
256
–57

Davis, Mike,
78
,
83

death squads,
121

deBlois, Bruce M.,
215

decoys,
223
–25,
228

Defense Appropriation bills,
149
,
258
–60,
264
–66,
270
,
276
–77

defense budget,
9
–10,
17
,
115
,
229
–31,
260
–61,
264
,
276
–77

Defense Contract Audit Agency,
230

defense contractors,
210
,
212
–15,
232
,
242
,
260
–62,
264
–65,
271
,
274

Defense Department (DOD, Pentagon),
4
,
9
,
15
,
19
–21,
69
,
102
,
135
,
200

      budget of,
7
–8,
10
,
229
–32,
264
,
276
–77,
275
–78

      corruption and,
260
–61,
264
–65

      intelligence and,
94
,
136
,
256
–57

      Iraq and,
15
,
47
,
49
–50,
99
–100,
158
,
160

      military bases inventory of,
5
–6,
138
–41,
139

      overseas bases and,
143
–51,
155
–56,
167
–68,
171
–72,
178
,
201
–4

      Pax American and,
58

      power of,
20
–21,
71

      space weaponry, missile defense and,
211
–14,
218
,
227
–28,
238

      torture and,
38
,
44
–45,
258

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA),
26
,
33
,
44
,
91
,
99
,
178

Defense Science Board Task Force on Strategic Communication (September 2004 report),
47

defense spending,
5
,
9
–10,
17
,
115
,
229
–32,
260
–62,
264
–65,
271
–78