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military experiences,
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Romm, Mikhail,
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Roosevelt, Eleanor,
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
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“Rosie the Riveter” (Evans and Loeb),
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Rotblat, Josef,
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Royal Navy (Britain),
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,
133
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144
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Royal Society of London,
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Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies (RUSI) (Britain),
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Russett, Bruce,
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Russia,
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Crimean War,
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Russian Civil War,
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Snowden seeking asylum in,
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,
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as the Soviet Union (USSR),
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(
see also
World War II)

Russian Orthodox Church,
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Safavid empire,
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St. Clair, Arthur,
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Salvation Army,
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Saudi Arabia,
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Schenk, Joseph,
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Schrödinger, Erwin,
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secondary use of technology,
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Second Macedonian War,
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Second Punic War,
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Second World War.
See
World War II

secrecy in government (US),
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209
.
See also
security

classification schemes,
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93
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Secret Service Agency (US),
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security,
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20
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See also
secrecy in government (US); surveillance

national security,
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see also
the National Security Act of 1947; National Security Agency [NSA]; and National Security Council [NSC])

“preclusive security,”
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Sedition Act (US),
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Segrè, Emilio,
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Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities.
See
Congress (US), Church Committee

Seleucid Empire,
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Seligman, Joseph,
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September 11, 2001, attacks,
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,
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Sergeant York
(film),
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Seven Years' War,
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SHAMROCK, Project (NSA surveillance program),
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Sierra Club,
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Signals Intelligence Service (SIS) of US Army,
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Simon, Jonathan,
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Skocpol, Theda,
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Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe,
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Smaller War Plants Corporation (US),
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Smith Act of 1940 (US),
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Snepp, Frank W.,
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Snowden, Edward,
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Social Darwinism,
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“Social Insurance and Allied Services” (Beveridge report),
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Socialist Party,
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Solove, Daniel,
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Spain,
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Spanish-American War,
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Spanish Inquisition,
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Sparta (ancient),
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Spencer, Herbert,
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Spewack, Samuel,
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Springfield Arsenal,
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Sputnik,
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Stalin, Joseph,
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Stanton, Edwin M.,
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Stark, Johannes,
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Stassen, Harold,
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State Department (US),
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state power,
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and economic development,
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30

encouraging volunteerism,
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governmental brutality and war,
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increase in presidential powers in the United States,
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63

lack of war causing a state to turn inward against own citizens,
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need for in the face of war,
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need to generate revenues through citizen support,
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102
,
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(
see also
funding for wars)

state as a “protection racket,”
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using persuasion rather than force,
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war creating citizens,
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(
see also
citizen soldiers)

war enhancing and expanding power of the state,
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209
(
see also
popular government; secrecy in government [US]; surveillance)

Steinberger, Jack,
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Stern, Carl,
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Stern, Otto,
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Stevenson-Kefauver presidential campaign,
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Stewart, Martha,
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Stimson, Henry,
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stock companies in England,
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strategic planning,
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Strategic Studies Institute,
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Students for a Democratic Society,
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Sullivan, William C.,
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Sun Tzu (Sunzi),
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supplies and logistics in warfare,
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Supreme Court (US),
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executive privilege cases in court system,
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surveillance,
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Sweden,
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Syracuse (in Second Punic War),
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Syria,
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systems analysis,
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Szilard, Leo,
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Taiwan,
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Taney, Michael,
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Tanks a Million
(film),
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Taranaki Maori,
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Tartaglia, Niccolò,
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Tata Motors,
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taxes as source of funds.
See
funding for wars

technological development,
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causing economic development,
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espionage, used to gain new technology,
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internationalization of scientific training,
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states with more economic development having better weapons,
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technology gap between Old and New Worlds,
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weapons development,
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Teller, Edward,
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Tenochtitlan,
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Tenure of Office Act (US),
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terrorism,
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Thermopylae, Battle of (480 BCE),
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think tanks, military use of,
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Thirty Years' War,
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Thompson, Larry, and “Thompson Memorandum,”
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Three Kingdoms, wars between,
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Thucydides,
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Tilly, Charles,
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Tommy Dorsey Orchestra,
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Total Information Awareness project of DARPA (US),
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Trade Act of 1974 (US),
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trade treaties, giving president more authority to engage in,
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training in warfare,
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efforts to train soldiers to engage in combat,
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Trajan (Roman emperor),
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Treasury Department (US),
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treaties and presidential power,
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Trotsky, Leon,
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Truman, Harry, and his administration,
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Tunisia,
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Twentieth-Century Fox,
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Ulam, Stanislaw,
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
See
Russia

United Kingdom.
See
Great Britain

United Mine Workers,
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United States,
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See also names of agencies, departments, etc.

control of the military,
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and the development of the Continental Army in colonial America,
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economic, commercial, and industrial development,
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finding funds to field armies,
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foreign policy,
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imperial overreach of,
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increase in presidential powers,
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military organization and structure,
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national welfare programs developed because of wars,
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receiving transfer of intellectuals from Nazi Germany,
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and use of citizen militias and conscripts,
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and use of propaganda,
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and voting rights,
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and war,
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(
see also names of specific wars, i.e., American Civil War, Iraq War, World War I, etc.
; secrecy in government [US]; surveillance)

United States v. American Telephone & Telegraph
,
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United States v. District Court of the District of Columbia
,
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–
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United States v. House of Representatives
,
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United States v. Nixon
,
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United Technologies Corporation,
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Untermenschen (Nazi label of Slavs),
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