The Sorrows of Empire (68 page)

Murray, Patty,
57

Murtopo, Ali,
76

Musharraf, Pervez,
125
,
182

mutual defense treaties,
31

Mutual Defense Treaty (U.S. Philippines),
209

“Mutual Logistics Support Agreement” (Philippines),
213
–14

Myers, Richard B.,
79
,
249

Nader, Ralph,
145

Nagorno-Karabakh,
174

Nagy, Imre,
19

Napoleonic Wars,
221
,
257

Nasser, Gamal Abdel,
219
,
223

National Defense University (Washington, DC),
136

national energy policy (Cheney Report, 2001),
169

National Geographic
(TV show),
113

National Guard,
46
,
107
,
175

number of,
102

National Hot Rod Association,
98

National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA),
117
,
127

National Reconnaissance Office (NRO),
79
,
80
,
117
,
118
,
127
,
155
,
162
,
311

National Security Agency (NSA),
36
,
117
–18,
127
,
155
,
161
–62

computer failure,
288

U.S. citizens and,
165
,
166
,
296

National Security Council,
20
,
173
,
179
,
181
,
223
,
228

National Security Decision Directive
114
,
224

National Security Strategy (NSS) (1990),
20
–21 (2002),
33
–34,
90
,
151
,
286
–88

National Space Symposium,
79
–80,
311

National System of Political Economy, The
(List),
262

Native Americans,
2
,
43
,
103
,
190

NATO,
80
,
140
,
154
,
164
,
194
,
204

Bush II and,
83

Eastern Europe and,
20
,
280

formation of,
222

Greece and,
206
,
207

Serbia and,
75

natural gas,
169
,
176

Naval Reserve,
102

Naval Special Warfare Center,
136

navy,
7
,
63
,
103
,
105
,
112
–13,
129

black programs,
118

defense budget and,
62

number in,
78

Navy SeaBees,
245

Navy SEALS,
69
,
115
,
124
,
129

Nazarbayev, Nursultan,
172

Nazis,
203
,
300
,
310

NBC,
113
,
155
,
231

Nea Makri Communications Station (Greece),
205

Nellis Air Force Base (Nevada),
119

neoclassical economics,
260

neocolonialism,
30
–31,
207
–8

neoconservatives,
70
–71

neofascists,
204

neoliberalism,
257
,
259
–61,
267
–77

Netanyahu, Benjamin,
235

Netherlands (Dutch),
74
,
263

Empire,
24
,
43
,
50
,
131
,
310

neutron bombs,
290

Nevatim Airfield (Israel),
153

“new economy,”
260

newly industrialized countries (NICs),
262

New People’s Army (NPA) (Philippines),
210

news media (press)

Afghan war and,
115

antiglobalization protests and,
275

China spy plane collision and,
88

deception operations and,
299

Grenada and,
114
–15

Iraq war and,
115
–16,
231
,
249
,
303
–4

manipulation of,
13
,
80
–81,
114
–17

military bases and,
8
,
153

military recruitment and,
112
–15

sanitized expressions used by,
4

on SOA,
136

Spanish-American War and,
39
,
40

special forces and,
128

Taliban and,
180

WW II and,
52

Newsweek,
108
,
295

New Yorker,
305

New York Journal,
40

New York
magazine,
249

New York Times,
20
,
85
,
127
,
184
,
217
,
242
,
273
,
275

New York World,
40

New Zealand,
31
,
165

Nicaragua,
11
,
17
,
34
,
75
,
128
,
192
,
193

Niebuhr, Reinhold,
309

Nigeria,
274
,
311

Niger uranium claim,
304
–5

Nixon, Richard M.,
59
,
205
–6,
223
,
236
,
265
,
284
,
295

Nixon Doctrine,
135

Niyazov, Saparmurat,
172
,
176

Nobel, Alfred, Robert, and Ludwig,
168

No Child Left Behind Act (2001),
111

nonaligned countries,
258

Noriega, Manuel,
69

North, Oliver,
130

North Africa,
15

Northern Alliance (Afghanistan),
177
,
180
,
181
,
182
–83,
229

Northern Command,
121
–22

North Korea,
20
,
31
,
58
,
64
,
77
,
88
–95,
202
,
288
,
290
,
310

Northrop Grumman,
57
,
63
,
135
,
240

North Vietnam,
134

Novartis,
271

Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (1970),
73
,
77
,
90
,
290
–91

Nuclear Posture Review (2002),
290

nuclear war,
33
–34,
61

nuclear weapons,
64
,
77
,
94
,
97
,
124
,
163
,
291

Bush II and “low yield” or “mini,”
290
–91

China and,
83
–84,
87
,
88

cost of,
56
,
265
,
306

Japan and,
199
,
201

North Korea and,
94

Philippines and,
212
–13

special operations and,
129
–30

Oakley, Robert,
178

Obrenovic, Dragan,
75

Occidental Petroleum,
311

Office for Global Communications,
299

Office of Defense Trade Controls,
133

Office of National Estimates,
9
–10

Office of Strategic Influence,
298
–99

Office of Strategic Services,
10
,
204
,
218

oil,
26
,
137

Africa and,
311

Central Asia and Iraq and,
145
–46,
215
,
226
–28,
233
–34

imported,
307
–8

Iran and,
218
,
220
,
222
–23

military bases and,
151
–52,
155
,
167
–80,
189

Oman and,
250
–51

Saudi Arabia and,
218
–19,
242

oil crises of 1970s,
259

oil pipelines

Afghanistan and,
176
–79

Central Asia and,
167
,
170
,
172
–76,
226

trans-Balkan,
145
–46,
155

Okinawa,
6
–8,
24
,
35
,
91
,
152
,
198
–201,
208
,
215

North Korea and,
94

rapes by troops in,
6
–7,
108

Vietnam War and,
202

Oklahoma City bombing,
121

Oman,
222
,
233
,
242
,
244
,
248

military bases in,
24
,
215
,
250
–52

Omar, Mohammed,
231

O’Meara, Kelly,
58

101st Airborne Division,
24

160th Special Operations Air Regiment,
119
,
129

1660th Tactical Airlift Wing,
252

Operation Anaconda,
289

Operation Desert Shield,
100

Operation Desert Storm,
80
,
100
,
147
,
198
,
225

Operation Enduring Freedom,
113

Operation Just Cause,
69

Operation Northwoods,
301

Operation Urgent Fury,
114

opium trade.
See also
drug trafficking

Afghanistan and,
177
,
180
,
181

Indochina and,
134
–35

Opium War of 1839–42,
35