The Sorrows of Empire (61 page)

Bagram Air Base (Afghanistan),
115
,
182

Bahrain,
24
,
215
,
221
–22,
233
,
242
,
244
–46,
248

Baker, James A., III,
174

Baker Botts firm,
174

Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline project,
174
–76

Balkans,
8
,
15
,
143
–46,
189
,
190
,
198
,
236

ballistic missile defense (BMD),
34
,
83
–86,
94
,
162
,
309

banks,
166
,
224
,
226
,
267
,
272

Barabee, Robert,
109

Base Status Report
(BSR),
153
–55,
198
,
202

Bay of Pigs invasion,
11
,
34
,
301

BBC,
115
,
247

BDM International,
140

Bechtel,
166
,
308

Beckwith, Charlie A.,
123

Belgium,
43
,
263

Bell Act (1946),
207
–8

Bello, Walden,
268
,
269

Bemis, Samuel Flagg,
191

Bengzon, Alfredo,
213

Bennett, William J.,
228

Berlin Wall, fall of,
7
,
18
–20,
34
,
69

Berlusconi, Silvio,
275

Beveridge, Albert,
43
,
192

Bhutto, Benazir,
176

bin Laden, Osama,
178
–81,
227
,
229
,
231
,
232
,
236
,
305

biological weapons,
77
,
129
–30

biopiracy,
271
–72

Bitburg airfield (Germany),
194

black budget,
56
,
117
–19

Blair, Dennis,
125

Blair, Tony,
275
,
283

Blair House Agreement (1992–93),
270

Blake, George,
10

Blix, Hans,
302

Blowback,
8
–9,
11

blowback,
8
–9,
121
,
227
,
288
,
300

Board of National Estimates,
218

Boeing,
57
,
118
,
119
,
277
–79,
309

Boer War,
82
,
307

Bolivia,
75

Bolton, John R.,
77
,
86
,
228
,
234

Bondsteel, James L.,
143

Bonner, Yelena,
17
–18

Bonn International Center for Conversion,
195

Bookman, Jay,
236

Boot, Max,
70

Bosnia,
3
,
62
,
72
,
140
,
155

Boston Globe,
78

Bourgeois, Roy,
136
–37

Bowen, Alva,
210

Boxer, Barbara,
292

Brazil,
75
,
267
,
268
,
275
,
279
–80

“Brezhnev Doctrine,”
69

Bridas company,
176
–77,
179
,
180

Bridges at Toko-Ri, The
(Michener),
58

Brinkley, David,
113

British East India Company,
31

British Empire,
2
,
5
,
24
,
30
,
31
,
43
,
50
,
191
,
257
.
See also
Great Britain

Boer War and,
82

decline,
219
,
310

economy and,
261
,
307

logic of,
81

as model,
25
,
67
,
68
,
70

Persian Gulf and,
217
–18

sepoys used by,
131
,
134
,
135
,
138
–39

British First Armored Division,
242

British fleet,
40

British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ),
165

British Ministry of Defense,
164

British Petroleum (BP-Amoco),
167
,
177
,
220

Brokaw, Tom,
113
,
231

Brooks, Vincent,
249

Brown, Ron,
268

Brown & Root.
See
Kellogg Brown & Root company

Bryan, William Jennings,
49

Bryce, Robert,
144

Brzezinski, Zbigniew,
178

Bulgaria,
146
,
300

Bulgheroni, Carlos,
176

Bundy, McGeorge,
97

Bunning, Jim,
292

Bunting, Madeleine,
284

Burgas International Airport,
146

Burma,
131
,
176

Bush, George H. W. (Bush I),
17
,
20
,
60
,
82
,
69
,
126
,
127
,
173
,
174
,
178
,
233

Iraq and,
217
,
225
–28,
230
,
232

Bush, George W. (Bush II),
1
,
4
,
33
–34,
75,
133
,
141
,
213
,
275

Afghanistan and,
42
,
176
,
178
,
179
,
181

appointments by,
62
–64,
79
–83

“axis of evil” and,
64
,
245

Central Asia and,
172
–75,
184

China and,
87
,
88

defense spending and,
56
,
118
,
281

democracy threatened by,
291
–97

German bases and,
198

Iraq war,
10
–11,
73
,
217
,
224
,
227
–36,
302
,
304
–6,
308

Latin America and,
261

military growth under,
122
–23

military imperialism of, vs. Clinton’s economic,
255
–57

North Korea and,
88
–95

nuclear weapons and,
290
–91

oil imports and,
307
–8

Pakistan and,
182

“preventive war” and,
5
–6,
284
–87

Saudi Arabia and,
241
–42

Serbia and,
145

South Korea and,
93
–95

State of Union address of 2002,
88

State of Union address of 2003,
304

treaties undermined by,
73
–78,
83
–84

U.S. as “force for good” and,
103

war on terrorism and,
169
,
291
–92

Butler, Smedley,
169

Caesar, Julius,
16
,
37

“Cairo West” air base (Egypt),
253

Cambodia,
203

Cambone, Stephen,
127
,
228

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,
161

Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases,
164

Camp Andy (Qatar),
248

Camp Arifjan (Kuwait),
243

Camp as-Sayliyah (Qatar),
248
–49

Campbell, Kurt M.,
62

Camp Bondsteel (Kosovo),
143
,
145
–46,
152
,
155
,
183
,
184

Camp Casey (South Korea),
92
–93,
107

Camp Doha (Kuwait),
146
–49,
242
–43

Camp Eagel (Bosnia),
155

Camp Hansen (Okinawa),
6
,
7

Camp Monteith (Kosovo),
143
,
152
,
155

Camp Peary (Virginia),
9

Camp Pendleton (California),
7
,
24
,
123
,
242

Camp Sarafovo (Bulgaria),
146

Camp Snoopy (Qatar),
248
,
249

Canada,
31
,
121
,
165

Cantwell, Maria,
57

capital movement,
263
,
267
,
272
–73

Caraway, David,
148

Card, Andrew H., Jr.,
217
,
236

Caribbean,
2
,
41
,
190
,
192

carrier battle groups,
242
,
250

Carroll, James,
78

Carter, Jimmy,
86
,
94
,
222
–23,
296

Caspian Basin oil,
145
,
168
–70,
172
–74

Castro, Fidel,
20

casualties,
54
–55,
59

Afghan war and,
79

attempt to avoid U.S.,
28
,
133
,
288
–91

classes of, in Gulf War I,
100
–101

Cato,
285

Caucasus,
32

CENTCOM (U.S. Central Command),
223
,
224
,
237
,
241

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments,
118

Center for Strategic and International Studies,
127

Central America,
2
,
22
,
32
,
169
,
192

Central Asia,
32
,
155
,
226

military bases in,
24
,
168
,
175
,
183
–85,
189
–90,
198
,
215