Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (66 page)

Global Positioning System (GPS),
214
,
223
,
232
–36

Global Posture Review (Integrated Global Presence and Basing Strategy),
143
–45,
148
–52,
154
–57

Global Security Organization,
51
,
160
,
161

Global Strike Force,
209

Glonas navigation system,
235

God of Small Things, The
(Roy),
80

Goldberg, Jeffrey,
167

Golove, David,
257
–58

Gonzales, Alberto,
23
,
33
,
38
,
44
,
251

Goodman, Melvin A.,
91

Gorbachev, Mikhail,
116

Gordon, Joy,
27
–28

Gore, Al,
259

Goss, Porter J.,
90
–92,
100
–102,
135

Government Accountability Office (GAO),
227
,
277

GPS.
See
Global Positioning System

Gracchus, Tiberius,
66

Grafenwöhr training area (Germany),
155

Graham, Bradley,
160
,
163

Graham, Lindsey,
262
,
267

Graham, R. B. Cunninghame,
78

Graves, Robert,
69

Gray, John,
82

Great Britain,
16
,
27
,
28
,
55
,
100
,
123
,
140
,
152
,
163
,
236
,
240
.
See also
British Empire

Great Leap Forward,
84

Great Transformation, The
(Polanyi),
83

Greece,
3
,
19
,
94
,
104
,
114

      ancient,
47
,
63
,
78

Greenberg, Karen,
39

Greenpeace,
195

Green Zone,
160
–61

Gregson, Wallace C.,
189

Grenada,
19
,
163

Gronlund, Lisbeth,
227
,
239

Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system,
220
–28

Guam,
20
,
164
,
204
,
206

Guantanamo Bay (Cuba),
8
,
34
–35,
37
,
40
–45,
123
–24,
181
,
246
,
266
–67,
278

“Guantánamo Bay Express,”
127

Guantánamo
(Rose) ,
43

Guardian
,
1
,
49
–50

Guatemala,
3
,
94
,
104
,
112
,
163

guerrilla wars,
94

Gulfstream jets (CIA),
125
–28

Gulf War of 1991,
26
–27,
47
,
49
–50,
163
,
227

Gumbel, Andrew,
275

habeas corpus,
186
,
244
,
266

Habermas, Jiirgen,
272

Habiger, Eugene,
210

Haditha massacre,
29

Hadley, Stephen J.,
92

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property (1954),
50

Haig, Alexander M.,
19

Haiti,
94

Haldeman, Bob,
92

Hall, Keith,
215

Halliburton Corp.,
7
,
140

Hailidav, Denis,
29

Hamas,
167

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
,
267

Hamilton, Alexander,
16
,
59

Hamilton, Edith,
243
–44

Hammer, Joshua,
159
,
160

Hannibal,
58

Hart, Howard,
111
–12

Hartford
, USS (nuclear submarine),
154

Hartung, William D.,
212
,
230

Harvard School of Public Health, report of May 1991,
27

Hashimoto, Ryutaro,
181
,
194

Hayashida, Soichi,
184

Hayden, Michael,
92
,
135

Haynes, William J.,
38

Hazar Qadam, civilian deaths at,
31

Health and Human Services Department,
263

Heart of Darkness
(Conrad),
76
,
78

Heat and Dust
(Jhabvala),
80

Heaven’s Command
(Morris),
54

Hecksher, Henry,
106
–7

Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin,
113
,
117
–18

Hellfire missile,
21

Helms, Richard,
92
,
95
–97,
104
–7

Henriques, Diana B.,
146

Henry, Patrick,
17

Herbert, Bob,
268

Herodotus,
57

Hersh, Seymour,
37
,
40

Hezbollah,
167

Higgs, Robert,
277

high value targets (HVTs),
32
–33

Hill, James,
167

Hindu-Muslim conflict,
87
–88

Hirohito, emperor of Japan,
201

Hispanic magazine
,
44

Historia Universal de la Destruction de los Libras
(Marquez),
49

Histories
(Herodotus),
57

History of Rome
(Livy),
57
–58

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The
(Gibbon),
55

Hitchens, Theresa,
215
,
239
,
240

Hitler, Adolf,
79
,
273

Holland, Tom,
54
,
57
–60,
62
,
64
–65,
67

Homeland Security Department,
276

Honduras,
164
–65,
176

Honeywell,
262

Hoover, J. Edgar,
247

Hornberger, Jacob,
27

Hosenball, Mark,
125

Housing and Urban Development Department,
263

“How Not to Catch a Terrorist” (Scheuer letter) ,
99

Hubble Telescope,
218
,
237

Hughes, Harold E.,
103

Hughes-Ryan Act (1974),
102
–3

“Humane Treatemnt of al-Qaeda and Taliban Detainees” (Yoo memorandum),
36
–37

humanitarian imperialism,
73

Human Rights First,
259

Human Rights Watch,
124

Hungary,
94

Hunter, Duncan,
260
–62

Huntington, Stuart A.,
40
–41

Huntsville, Alabama,
232

Hussein, king of Jordan,
94

Hussein, Saddam,
26
–28,
32
–33,
52
,
87
,
98
–101,
143
,
157
,
160
–61,
163
,
214
,
232

Hutchison, Kay Bailey,
149
–50,
186

Hypervelocity Rod Bundles,
209

I, Claudius
(Graves),
69

Ibrahim, Izzat,
32

ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles),
218
,
220
–23,
226
–28,
231

      Russian Topol-M,
228
–29

      Soviet SS-9,
97
–98

ideology,
82

      “of extermination,”
76

Ignatieff, Michael,
73
–74

Iha, Yoichi,
196

“illegal combatants,”
37

illegal imprisonment,
8

illegal orders, obedience to,
269

impeachment powers,
16

Imperial Hubris
(Scheuer),
99

imperialism.
See also
American empire; British Empire

      administrative massacres and,
75

      economic justification for,
77
–78,
80
–85

      racial justification for,
75
–78

      Roman Republic destroyed by,
55
,
59
–60,
63
–67,
70

imperial presidency.
See
presidential power

Inamine, Keiichi,
174
,
181
–83,
186
,
189
–91,
198

Incan civilization,
76

Incirlik Air Base (Turkey),
156

Independent
(London),
31
,
49
,
275

India,
71
–72,
77
–84,
87
–88,
116
,
148
,
236
,
270
,
278

Indian Congress Party,
88

Indian Muslim League,
88

Indian Mutiny,
81

Indochina,
85

Indonesia,
3
,
19
,
94
,
104
,
147

Integrated Global Presence and Basing Strategy.
See
Global Posture Review

intelligence

      CIA and,
93
–94,
135
–36

      fabricated or suppressed,
95
–102

      9/11 attacks and,
95
,
98

      State Department and,
21

intelligence agencies.
See also
specific agencies

      competition among,
95

      power of,
20
–21

      secret budgets of,
9
–10

Intelligence Oversight Act (1980),
250

Intelligence Wars
(Powers),
256

Intelsat I “Early Bird,”
238

Interior Department,
263

International Committee of the Red Cross,
43
,
45
,
124

International Criminal Court (ICC),
145
,
164
,
169
,
191

International Islamic Front for lihad,
118
,
122
–23

international law,
8
,
25
,
27
,
34
–37,
43
–44,
87
,
102
,
123
,
191
,
241
,
243
,
251

International Military Education and Training,
151

International Monetary Fund,
164

International Space Station,
218
,
237

International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT),
105

Internet,
9
,
125
,
127

Inter Press News Service,
168

Iquitos, Peru,
165

Iran,
2
,
5
,
15
,
48
,
93
–94,
104
,
110
–11,
158
,
225

Iran, Shah of,
2
,
19
,
111

Iran-Centra scandal,
103
–4,
113
,
163
–65,
248
–49,
256

Iraq,
87
,
91
,
94
.
See also
Gulf War of 1991; Iraq war and occupation

      ancient,
46
–47,
49

      sanctions and,
3
,
25
–29

Iraq Body Count,
32

Iraq Confidential
(Ritter),
92

Iraqi Interior Ministry,
29
,
50

Iraqi Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments,
47

Iraqi National Library and Archives,
47
,
49

Iraqi Oil Ministry,
46
,
50
–51

Iraqi Republican Guard,
161

Iraqiyun (Baghdad),
29

“Iraq’s Continuing Program for Weapons of Mass Destruction” (NIE of October 1, 2002),
98
–99

Iraq Survey Group, CIA,
99

Iraq war and occupation (2003-),
5
–10,
19
,
21
–25,
27
,
36
,
46
,
123
–24,
153
–54,
156
,
164
,
178
,
191
,
199
,
201
,
203
–4,
243
,
278
,
279

      cost of,
7
,
59
,
275
–77

      election of lanuary 2005 and,
95

      insurgents and,
29
–30

      intelligence and,
5
,
23
,
98
–100

      looting and,
23
,
45
–53

      military bases and,
7
,
140
–43,
153
–63,
188

      reconstruction of,
15

      Rumsfeld strategy and,
143

      space war and,
232

      torture and,
5
,
8
,
21
–23,
35
,
38
,
41
–45

“Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities” (DIA document, 1991),
26

Irbil military base (Iraq),
163

Irish famine,
81

Ishaqi massacre,
29

Ishihara, Shintaro,
190
–91

Ishtar Gate,
52

Islamabad CIA station,
100
,
113