The Worth of War (38 page)

UPSTREAM (NSA surveillance program),
189

USO,
216

USSR.
See
Russia

US Trade Representative (USTR),
161

Vance, Cyrus,
159

Vatican,
199

Vauban, Sébastien,
44

Vegetius (Vegetius Renatus, Flavius),
33
,
34
,
39
–
40

Venetian Arsenal,
58

Versailles Treaty,
82

veterans organizations,
150

victimhood,
217
,
220

“Victory Loans,”
100

Vietnam War,
49
,
208

efforts to train soldiers to engage in combat,
42

leaking of Pentagon Papers about,
191
,
197
–
98

lowering voting to age 18 in response to,
148

opposition to,
94
–
95
,
149
,
150
,
153
–
54
,
163
–
64
,
167
,
180
,
182

Violent Crime Control Act of 1994 (US),
217

Virginia Electronics,
166

Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus,
57

voluntary technology transfers,
76
,
83
–
86

Volunteer Act of 1898 (US),
156

volunteerism, growth of during wars,
102
–
104

volunteer military of professional soldiers (US),
40
,
163
–
68

growth of private contractors to assist,
165
–
67

Von Neumann, John,
31

voting rights as way to inspire citizens to fight for their country,
95
,
125
–
27
,
148

Wallenstein, Albrecht von,
46

Wall Street Journal
(newspaper),
204

Walton, Reggie B.,
190

War Advertising Council (Treasury Department),
117

War and Progress
(Neff),
9

War Department (US),
156
,
157
,
194
–
95

War Finance Corporation (later Reconstruction Finance Corporation) (US),
169

War Industries Board (WIB) (US),
47

War Loan Organization (US),
100

“War Manifesto” (Gustavus Adolphus),
106

Warner Brothers,
113
,
114
,
116

War of 1812,
148

“War on Drugs,”
166

War Plans (of US, color coded),
36

War Powers Resolution of 1973 (US),
154

Wartime Elections Act (in Canada and Britain),
126

Washington, George,
193
,
201

Washington Post
(newspaper),
168
,
189
,
190
,
192
,
198

Watergate scandal,
154
,
182
,
184
–
85
,
201
–
202

Watt, James,
205

weapons of mass destruction (WMDs),
143
,
208

Weber, Max,
56
–
57

Wehrmacht (Nazi army),
27
,
28
,
29
,
39

Weimar Republic.
See
Germany

welfare state and public support for war,
123
–
25

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of,
55

Western Union Telegraph Corporation,
171
–
72

Wheeler, Burton K.,
116

White Russian Army,
82

Wigner, Eugene,
31
,
90

WikiLeaks case,
192
,
198
–
99

William the Conqueror,
45

William III (king of England),
130
,
131

Willstatter, Richard,
31

Wilmot, David,
151

Wilson, Woodrow,
47
,
152

Winchell, Walter,
178

“Wobblies” (Industrial Workers of the World),
170

Wolfowitz, Paul,
208

women

women's suffrage,
12
,
95
,
126
,
127
,
148

in workforce during World Wars,
98
,
101
–
102
,
103
–
104
,
110
,
124

Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs),
103

Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF),
103

Women's Christian Temperance Union,
147

Women's Land Army (WLA),
104

Women Strike for Peace,
182

World at War, The
(film),
115
–
16

World Bank,
145

World War I,
24
,
27

and development of new national welfare programs,
124

funding of,
100

Germany in,
36
,
43
,
82
,
100
,
110
, 4109

Great Britain in,
43
,
48
,
82
–
83
,
95
,
100
,
102
,
103
,
124
,
126
,
127
,
148
,
152

growth of volunteerism during war,
103
–
104

introduction of tanks,
82

number of soldiers in,
97
,
98

opposition to,
149
,
152

Schliefen Plan,
36

seeing suffrage expansion,
95
,
127
,
148

United States in,
47
–
48
,
94
,
98
,
101
–
102
,
109
,
110
–
11
,
157
,
169
,
170
,
191
,
194
–
95

use of propaganda,
109
–
111

use of testing to identify leadership potential,
56

World War II

Allied strategy to defeat Germany before Japan,
35

Allies gaining rocket technology from Germans,
69

and development of new national welfare programs,
124

funding of,
101

Germany in,
20
,
27
–
28
,
29
,
37
,
39
,
48
,
49
,
87
–
88
,
90
,
97
,
102
,
103
–
104
,
112
,
120
–
21
,
124
,
170
,
183
(
see also
Germany, Nazi Germany)

as the “good war,”
119

Great Britain in,
24
,
27
,
30
–
31
,
35
,
69
,
90
,
102
,
103
–
104
,
109
–
110
,
112
,
124
–
25
,
216
–
17

growth of volunteerism during,
103
–
104
,
216
–
17

industrial production needed,
101

Japan in,
35
,
114
,
116
,
119
,
183

and jet-propulsion developments,
87
–
88

limited draft resistance,
149

numbers of soldiers in,
98

Soviet Union in,
20
,
24
,
27
–
30
,
32
,
37
,
41
,
77
,
83
,
84
,
86
,
98
,
101
–
102
,
119
–
20
,
121
–
22

United States in,
37
,
42
,
48
,
84
,
94
,
98
,
101
–
102
,
113
–
19
,
169
–
70
,
191
,
216

use of propaganda,
104
,
111
–
12
,
113
–
21

Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890,
16

Yalta conference,
35

Yank in the RAF, A
(film),
113

Yardley, Herbert O.,
171
–
72
,
175
,
184

YMCA,
103

York, Alvin,
113

Zhou Enlai,
142

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Benjamin Ginsberg is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science and the director of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of more than twenty books, including
The Value of Violence
;
How the Jews Defeated Hitler
;
The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters
;
Do the Jews Have a Future in America?
; and
Political Science as Public Philosophy
, coedited with Gwendolyn Mink.