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3
. David Wood, “Shaky Economy Alters Equations of Risk in Today’s Military,”
San Diego Union-Tribune,
April 27, 2003.

4
. Doug Rokke, “Gulf War Casualties,” September 30, 2002, <
http://www.traprockpeace.org
>; Karsten Strauss, “When the Dust Settles,” ABC News, May 5, 2003; Scott Peterson, “A Rare Visit to Iraq’s Radioactive Battlefield,”
Christian Science Monitor,
April 29,1999; and Peterson, “Remains of Toxic Bullets Litter Iraq,”
Christian Science Monitor,
May 15, 2003.

5
. Susanna Hecht, “Uranium Warheads May Leave Both Sides a Legacy of Death for Decades,”
Los Angeles Times,
March 30, 2003; Neil Mackay, “U.S. Forces’ Use of Depleted Uranium Is ‘Illegal,’”
Glasgow Sunday Herald,
March 30, 2003; Steven Rosenfeld, “Gulf War Syndrome, the Sequel,”
TomPaine.com,
April 8, 2003; “UK to Aid DU Removal,” BBC News, April 23, 2003; Frances Williams, “Clean-Up of Pollution Urged to Reduce Health Risks,” and Vanessa Houlder, “Allied Troops Risk Uranium Exposure,’”
Financial Times,
April 25, 2003; Jonathan Duffy, “Iraq’s Cancer Children Overlooked in War,” BBC News, April 29, 2003.

6
. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management Policy,
Population Representation in the Military Services
(Washington: Department of Defense, November 2000), <
http://dticaw.dtic.mil/prhome/poprep99/
>.

7
. Leonel Sanchez, “Hispanics Overrepresented in Combat Roles, Report Says,”
San Diego Union-Tribune,
March 28, 2003; “Baja Upset at U.S. Army Bid to Recruit in Tijuana,”
San Diego Union-Tribune,
May 9, 2003; Mark Stevenson, “U.S. Army Recruiter Crosses Mexico Border,” Associated Press, May 9, 2003; “Green Card Marines,”
Los Angeles Times,
May 25, 2003.

8
. Adam Clymer, “Service Academies Defend Use of Race in Their Admissions Policies,”
New York Times,
January 28, 2003.

9
. U.S. Department of Defense, “News Transcript: Background Briefing on the All Volunteer Force,” January 13, 2003, <
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jan2003/t01132003_tl13bkgd.html
>; Earl Ofari Hutchinson, “Echoes of’Fragging,’”
San Francisco Chronicle,
March 27, 2003; and Kimberly Hefling, “Military Trial Urged in Kuwait Fragging,”
Washington Times,
June 21, 2003.

10
. Marie Tessier,
Women’s ENews,
posted on
AlterNet.org,
April 8, 2003.

11
. Michael Janofsky, “Top Air Force Officer, at Academy, Issues Warning,”
New York Times,
March 8, 2003.

12
. Roland Watson and Glen
Owen, “Kitty Hawk
Captain Loses Control,”
Times Online,
“World News,” September 4, 2002.

13
. Norman Soloman, “Media Sizzle for an Army of Fun,”
Media Monitors,
July 8, 2002, <
http://www.mediamonitors.net/solomon85.html
>.

14
. Kevin Heldman, “On the Town with the U.S. Military in Korea,”
Z Magazine,
February 1997, <
http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/feb97army.html
>.

15
. Ibid.

16
. Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, “Death at Fort Bragg,”
U.S. News & World Report,
August 12, 2002, p. 44.

17
. Bill Vann, “The Fort Bragg Murders: A Grim Warning on the Use of the Military,”
World Socialist Web Site,
August 2, 2002.

18
. Colin Soloway, “’I Yelled at Them to Stop,’”
Newsweek,
October 7, 2002, <
http://www.msnbc.com/news/814576.asp
>; and Dan Plesch, “Failure of the 82nd Airborne,”
Guardian,
December 19, 2002. Also see Marc W. Herold, “Vietnam Redux,” October 31, 2002, <
http://www.cursor.org/stories/vietnam_redux.htm
>, where full citations to Afghan incidents are given.

19
. Associated Press, “Marine Corps Cancels Annual Sniper Meet,” October 23, 2002.

20
. John M. Broder, “Arizona Gunman Chose Victims in Advance,”
New York Times,
October 30, 2002.

21
. Roland Watson and Glen Owen,
“Kitty Hawk
Captain”; and
“Kitty Hawk
Captain Dismissed Over Crewmen’s Incidents,”
Yomiuri Shimbun
(Tokyo), September 4, 2002.

22
. Heldman, “On the Town.”

23
. Ibid. Also see Associated Press, “Uncle Sam Wants Your Kid,” December 3, 2002; and Suzanne Goldenberg, “Parents Furious as Pentagon Slides Recruiting Officers into Classrooms,”
Guardian,
December 5, 2002.

24
. See “Military Escalates Assault on Civilian Schools,” Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft,
Draft Notices,
May-July 2001, <
www.comdsd.org
>; Carl Campanile, “New Law Lets Army Get Info on High School Kids,”
New York Post,
July 17, 2002; David Goodman, “No Child Unrecruited: Should the Military Be Given the Names of Every High School Student in America?”
Mother Jones,
November-December 2002; Helen Thomas, “Military Recruitment: An Invasion of Privacy,”
TheJacksonChannel.com,
November 18, 2002.

25
. George Fisher, “Power over Principle,”
New York Times,
September 7, 2002. Also see Rebecca Trounson, “Law Schools Bow to Pentagon on Recruiters,”
Los Angeles Times,
October 12, 2002.

26
. Lawrence H. Suid,
Guts and Glory: The Making of the American Military Image in Film
(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002), p. 8.

27
. Nancy Benac, “More Movies with Pentagon Help,” Associated Press, May 16, 2001.

28
. V. Dion Haynes, “Hollywood Boosts the Military,”
Chicago Tribune,
May 27, 2001.

29
. Claudia Eller and Richard Natale, “Hit Status Elusive Target for ‘Pearl Harbor,’”
Los Angeles Times,
June 17, 2001. Also see Simon Davis, “U.S. Critics Attack’Pearl Harbor’ as Ultimate Hollywood Bilge,”
London Telegraph,
May 26, 2001; and Todd McCarthy, ‘“Pearl Harbor,’ a Film That Will Live in Infamy,” Reuters, May 25, 2001.

30
. Dana Calvo, “Military Using Its Promotional Arms in Theaters,”
Los Angeles Times,
October 15, 2002.

31
. Rupert Wingfield Hayes, “Doubts Set In on Afghan Mission,” BBC News, September 28, 2002. Also see James W. Crawley, “The War News—With No Last Names Allowed,”
San Diego Union-Tribune,
October 21, 2001.

32
. See Carol Brightman, “U.S. Military Plans the War of Words,”
Los Angeles Times,
February 16, 2003; and Ralph Blumenthal and Jim Rutenberg, “Journalists Are Assigned to Accompany U.S. Troops,”
New York Times,
February 18, 2003.

33
.
Time
, April 16, 2001;
Honolulu Advertiser,
April 16, 2001; as cited by John Kifner, “Despite Sub Inquiry, Navy Still Sees Need for Guests on Ships,”
New York Times,
April 23, 2001. Also see Tony Perry, “Sub Skipper Is Forced into Retirement,”
Los Angeles Times,
April 24, 2001.

34
. Tony Perry, “Morale Likely a Factor in Decision on Sub Crew,”
Los Angeles Times,
April 4, 2001.

35
. Phil Patton, “Exposing the Black Budget,”
Wired,
November 1995, <
http:/www.wired.eom/wired/archive/3.1l/patton_pr.html
>.

36
. George Caldwell, “U.S. Defense Budgets and Military Spending,” Library of Congress, March 1992, <
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/militaryspending.html
>; Bill Sweetman, “In Search of the Pentagons Billion Dollar Hidden Budgets,” <
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/2546/black.html
>; and Dan Morgan, “Classified Spending on the Rise; Report: Defense to Get $23.2 Billion,”
Washington Post,
August 27, 2003.

37
. Sweetman, “In Search.”

38
. Ibid.

39
. John Kelly, Chris Kridler, and Kelly Young, “Billion Dollar Question: Where Has All the Air Force’s EELV Money Gone?”
Florida Today,
August 25, 2002.

40
. Robert Windrem, NBC News, “Military Role Grows on Home Front,” April 18, 2001, <
www.msnbc.com/news/546844.asp?Osp=n5b5zl
>. Also see editorial, “Domestic Law Enforcement Is Not a Job for the Military,”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
July 19, 2002.

41
. See, in particular, Alan W. Bock,
Ambush at Ruby Ridge: How Government Agents Set Randy Weaver Up and Took His Family Down
(Irvine, Calif.: Dickens Press, 1995).

42
.
Boston Globe
and Associated Press, “New Command Being Set Up to Defend North America,”
San Diego Union-Tribune,
April 18, 2002; Eric Schmitt, “General Backs More Policing Power for Military,”
San Diego Union-Tribune,
July 21, 2002; David Johnston et al., “Administration Begins to Rewrite Decades-Old Spying Restrictions,”
New York Times,
November 30, 2002; Robert Dreyfuss, “Bringing the War Home,”
Nation,
May 26, 2003.

43
. U.S. Department of Defense, “Homeland Security,”
Defense Link,
February 6, 2003, <
http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/homeland/
>.

44
. “Defense Takeover,”
Financial Times,
April 8, 2002.

45
. Eric Lichtblau and James Risen, “Broad Domestic Role Asked for CIA and the Pentagon,”
New York Times,
May 2, 2003.

46
. Jeanette Steele, “Corps’War with Law: Marines Say Protection of Species Hurts Combat Training,”
San Diego Union-Tribune,
September 26, 2002; and Esther Schrader, “Defense Seeking Greater Latitude,”
Los Angeles Times,
July 15, 2002. Also see Katharine Q. Seelye, “Defense Dept. Forum Focuses on Environment,”
New York Times,
February 6, 2003; Jennifer Lee, “Military Seeks Exemptions on Harming Environment,”
New York Times,
March 6, 2003; Andrew Gumbel, “Pentagon Seeks Freedom to Pollute Land, Air and Sea,”
Independent,
March 13, 2003.

47
. Charlie A. Beckwith,
Delta Force
(New York: Dell Books, 1985), p. 268.

48
. Stratfor Global Intelligence Update, “Foreign Policy and the U.S. Military,” July 9, 2001 <
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23554
>.

49
. Dana Priest, “A Four-Star Foreign Policy: U.S. Commanders Wield Rising Clout, Autonomy,”
Washington Post,
September 28, 2000. Also see Dana Priest,
The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with Americas Military
(New York: Norton, 2003).

50
. Dana Priest, “Standing Up to State and Congress,”
Washington Post,
September 30, 2000; Karen DeYoung, “Powell Says U.S. to Resume Training Indonesia’s Forces: Terrorism Fears Overtake Concerns about Army Abuses,”
Washington Post,
August 3, 2002.

51
. Daniel Siegel and Joy Hackel, “El Salvador: Counterinsurgency Revisited,” in Michael T. Klare and Peter Kornbluh, eds.,
Low-Intensity Warfare
(New York: Pantheon, 1988), pp. 112–35. Also see Cynthia J. Arnson, “Window on the Past: A Declassified History of Death Squads in El Salvador,” in Bruce B. Campbell and Arthur D. Brenner, eds.,
Death Squads in Global Perspective: Murder with Deniability
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), pp. 85–124.

52
. Priest, “Standing Up.”

53
. Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker, “Pentagon Sets Up Intelligence Unit,”
New York Times,
October 24, 2002.

54
. Canadian Broadcasting Corp., “Experts Doubt Iraq, al-Qaeda Terror Link,” November 1, 2002.

55
. Linda Robinson, “Moves That Matter: In the Intelligence Wars, a Preemptive Strike by the Pentagon Surprises Many in Congress,”
U.S. News & World Report,
August 12, 2002, p. 18. Also see Leona C. Bull, “Rivalry between Defense Department, CIA Reportedly Growing,”
Journal of Aerospace and Defense Industry News,
November 1, 2002, p. A6; Pat M. Holt, “U.S. Intelligence: Seeing What It Wants to See in Iraq,”
Christian Science Monitor,
November 7, 2002; Robert Dreyfuss, “The Pentagon Muzzles the CIA,”
American Prospect
13:22 (December 16, 2002); and Eric Schmitt, “Pentagon Draws Up a 20-to-30-Year Antiterror Plan,”
New York Times,
January 17, 2003.