Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country (31 page)

Korean Demilitarized Zone

Korean War

Kosovo

KP (Kitchen Police)

Kristol, William

Kuwait, Iraqi invasion of

Laden, Osama bin

assassination of

Lange, Dorothea

Lebanon

Lee, Robert E.

liberals

Liberty
, USS

Libya

Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii

Lincoln, Abraham

Little Round Top

Look
magazine

Louis, Joe

Lydon, Bridget

MacArthur, Douglas

MacIntyre, Alasdair

Mahdists

Major League Baseball “Salute From the Stands”

“Making of the American G.I., The” (Keegan)

Mang Yang Pass

Mao Zedong

Marshall, George C.

Mattis, James

Mauldin, Bill

Mayaguez
incident

McCarthy, Joseph

McCarthyism

McChrystal, Stanley

McKinley, William

McKinney, Gene

McMaster, H.R.

McNamara, Robert

Mexico

militarism

military conscription (draft)

challenge of ending, post-Vietnam

decision to wage war and

equality in army and end of

McChrystal on

9/11 response and

reinstating

soldier vs. warrior and

Vietnam and resistance to

WW I and

WW II and

military contractors

military ethics

Military Professional Resources, Inc.

Military Review

Miller, Glenn

Miller Brewing Company

Milo
š
evi
ć
, Slobodan

Missouri
, USS

Mogadishu

Moorer, Thomas

Morgenthau, Henry

Moskos, Charles

Moten, Matthew

Movement for a Democratic Military

Moyler, James D.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(film)

Muhammad, Prophet, video

Mullen, Mike

Muslims

Mydans, Carl

Nasser, Gamal Abdel

National Football League

National Guard

National Security Council

national service, universal

Native Americans

Nebraska National Guard

neoconservatives

Netanyahu, Benjamin

New Deal

New Republic

New York Times

Magazine

Nixon, Richard M.

North American Treaty Organization (NATO)

North Korea

nuclear weapons

Nye Committee

Obama, Barack

Israeli-style operations and

McChrystal and

strategic irrationality and

Obama Doctrine

Occupy movement

Odierno, Raymond

officer corps

African Americans and,

authority of

civilian authority over

contractors and

gays rights and

isolation of, during Vietnam war

pay rates

Soviet Union and

women and

oil

Oklahoma!
(musical)

Omaha Beach

Omdurman, Battle of

O’Neill, William

one-percent

enriched by war

sent to war

operational purpose

Operations Other Than War (OOTW)

Osirak nuclear reactor strike

Our Town
(film)

Packer, George

Pakistan

Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Palm Center

Panama,

Panetta, Leon

patriotism

Patterson, Robert

Patton, George S., Jr.

Pax Americana

peace

dominion and, vs. harmony

Peace for Galilee, Operation

Pearl Harbor attacks

Pentagon

attacks of 2001 and

benefits of professional army for

Boston Red Sox celebration of 2011 and

Boykinism and

contractors and

DADT ended by

funding of

Greater Middle East and

information technology and

peace as threat to

power projection and

promotional budget

transformation project and

women and

WW II and

perceived opportunity

Persian Gulf

Persian Gulf War (1990–91)

Petraeus, David

Philippines

Pleiku

Polenberg, Richard

policing actions

policy.
See also
global power projection;
and other policy options

creating consensus on

critique of, by retired officers

elites and options for

impact of citizen army on

incoherence of, with end of Cold War

peace-as-dominion and

values and

Powell, Colin

Power, Tyrone

presidential election

of 1968

of 1992

of 2008

preventive war

private security contractors (PSCs)

Quang Tri Province

Qui Nohn

racial tensions

Reagan, Ronald

Red Army

Reichert, William F.

religion

Republican Party

reservists

retribution operations

Roberts Commission

Rodgers, Richard

rogue states

Roman empire

Romney, Mitt

Ronald Reagan
, USS

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

ROTC

Rumsfeld, Donald

Ryan, Paul

Santorum, Rick

secrecy

September 11, 2001 (9/11)

Serbia

Sergeant York
(film)

Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN)

73 Easting, Battle of

Seventh Army

sexual harassment

Shaara, Michael

Shiite factions

Shinseki, Eric

shock and awe

Short, Walter

Simpson, O.J.

Smith, Larry

Somalia

South Korea

Soviet Union

Afghanistan invasion

collapse of

WW II and

Spanish-American war

special operations

Stalin, Joseph

Standley, William H.

Stark
, USS

Stars and Stripes

State Department

Stevens, George

Stewart, James

strategic irrationality

Sudan

suicide

Sullivan, Gordon R.

Sunni factions

Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR)

Syria

Tal Afar, Iraq

Taliban

Tanker War of 1984–88

Tan Son Nhut Air Base

targeted assassinations

taxes

Tea Party

technological warfare

Tenth Cavalry “Buffalo Soldiers”

Thurmond, Strom

Time

Person of the Year

Toronto Blue Jays

totalitarianism

total war

transformation project

Truman, Harry S.

Tunney, Gene

unemployment

Union Army

U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM)

U.S. Air Force

U.S. army.
See also
all-volunteer army; citizen-soldier; warrior

Abram’s vision of

African Americans and

capabilities of

changing character of, in history

Cold War and

consequences of deployment of

contractors and

Desert Storm and

end of Cold War and

end of discrimination and

end of draft and

gays and

Greater Middle East and

GWOT and public apathy toward

high-tech, and more-with-less approach

Iraq becomes new enemy for

Iraq War and

Marshall on

McChrystal on

nature and purpose of

9/11 response and

pay and

peace dividend and

protracted war and

public indifference to

public intellectuals and

public support and

reservists as shield for

size of

symbolic support for

unrealistic expectations of

victory and

Vietnam and near collapse of

warrior class and indifferent society

warriors as basis of

women and

WW II and

U.S. Army Air Forces

U.S. Army Rangers

U.S. Army Ranger School

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)

U.S. Congress

U.S. Constitution

U.S. European Command (EUCOM)

USIS company

U.S. Marine Corps

United States Military Academy (West Point)

U.S. Navy

U.S. Navy SEALS

U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM)

U.S. Senate

Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry

U.S. Special Operations Command

U.S. Strategic Command

U.S. Supreme Court

Values Voter Summit

veterans

Vietminh

Vietnam Veterans Against the War

Vietnam War

Vincennes
, USS

Vuono, Carl

Wakefield, Tim

Wallerstein, Immanuel

Wall Street

Wall Street Journal

War on drugs

warrior.
See also
all-volunteer army

citizen-soldier vs.

honor and

wars and military interventions.
See also
global power projection;
and specific doctrines; policies; and wars

costs of

democracy and

do-more-with-less approach to

enabling of

geography and

ideology and

intellectuals and

limited

normalization of

number of

operational purpose and

people’s

preventing misuse of

production for

protracted

redefinition of

shared sacrifice and

victory and

Warsaw Pact

Washington, George

Washington Post

Webb, James

Wechsler, James

Weekly Standard

West Bank

Westhusing, Theodore

Westmoreland, William

Wieseltier, Leon

Williams, Ted

Willmot, H.P.

Wilson, Woodrow

Wolfowitz, Paul

Women’s Armed Services Integration Act (1948)

Women’s Army Corps

women soldiers

Wood, Grant

Woods, Tiger

World War I

World War II

World War III

Wyler, William

Yemen

Zinn, Howard

Zuckerberg, Mark

THE AMERICAN EMPIRE PROJECT

In an era of unprecedented military strength, leaders of the United States, the global hyperpower, have increasingly embraced imperial ambitions. How did this significant shift in purpose and policy come about? And what lies down the road?

The American Empire Project is a response to the changes that have occurred in America’s strategic thinking as well as in its military and economic posture. Empire, long considered an offense against America’s democratic heritage, now threatens to define the relationship between our country and the rest of the world. The American Empire Project publishes books that question this development, examine the origins of U.S. imperial aspirations, analyze their ramifications at home and abroad, and discuss alternatives to this dangerous trend.

The project was conceived by Tom Engelhardt and Steve Fraser, editors who are themselves historians and writers. Published by Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company, its titles include
Hegemony or Survival
and
Failed States
by Noam Chomsky,
The Blowback Trilogy
by Chalmers Johnson,
The Limits of Power
by Andrew Bacevich,
Crusade
by James Carroll,
Blood and Oil
by Michael Klare,
Dilemmas of Domination
by Walden Bello,
Devil’s Game
by Robert Dreyfuss,
A Question of Torture
by Alfred McCoy,
A People’s History of American Empire
by Howard Zinn,
The Complex
by Nick Turse, and
Empire’s Workshop
by Greg Grandin.

For more information about the American Empire Project and for a list of forthcoming titles, please visit
www.americanempireproject.com

ALSO BY ANDREW BACEVICH

The Short American Century: A Postmortem
(editor)

Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War

The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism

The Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy Since World War II
(editor)

The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War

American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy

The Imperial Tense: Prospects and Problems of American Empire
(editor)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A
NDREW
J. B
ACEVICH
is a professor of history and international relations at Boston University. He is the author of
Washington Rules
,
The Limits of Power
, and
The New American Militarism
, among other books.