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nuclear weapons
strike force
Obama, Barack
Odierno, Raymond
Office of Net Assessment
Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
officer corps
Okinawa
Operation Desert Storm. See also Gulf War
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Iraqi Freedom. See also Iraq War
Operation Linebacker II
Operation Mongoose
Operation PBSUCCESS
Operation Phoenix
Operation Ranch Hand
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation TPAJAX
Operation Zapata. See also Bay of Pigs invasion
OPLAN
oversight
overthrow. See also specific countries and leaders
“overwhelming force”
pacification
Pacific Command
Paine, Tom
Pakistan
Palin, Sarah
Panama
Paris Peace Conference (1919)
Paul, Ron
Pax Americana
Peace Corps
“peace with honor”
Pelosi, Nancy
permanent crisis
permanent war. See also Long War
alternatives to
Persian Gulf. See also specific countries and wars
bases in
need to withdraw from
Petraeus, David
Philippines
Pickens, Slim
Pike, Otis
“Plan for Cuba” (report)
Pleiku attack
Powell, Gen. Colin
power. See also global power projection
attraction of
good intentions and
limits of
Power, Gen. Thomas
pragmatism
Present at the Creation (Acheson)
presidency
continuity of policy and
power of
presidential campaign
of 1960
of 1964
of 1968
of 1976
of 1980
of 2008
of 2008
preventive war. See also Bush Doctrine
private contractors
Project for a New American Century
Prussia
psychological operations (PSYOPS)
Qatar
Quiet American, The (Greene
Qui Nhon attack
RAND think tank
Reader’s Digest
Reagan, Ronald
Red Army
Republican Party
Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA)
Ridgway, Matthew
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Roper, Daniel S.
Rumsfeld, Donald
Rusk, Dean
Sacolick, Bennet
sacred trinity
replacing
Sahhaf, Muhammad Saeed al- “Baghdad Bob”
Saudi Arabia
Scales, Robert
Schissler, Mark O.
Schlesinger, Arthur
Schwarzkopf, Norman
Scott, George C.
“search and destroy”
secrecy
Sellers, Peter
semiwar
semiwarriors
officer corps vs.
“Sentiments on a Peace Establishment” (Washington)
September 11 (9/11)
Shackley, Ted
Sherman, William Tecumseh
Shiites
Shils, Edward
Shinseki, Eric
Shoup, David M.
Singapore
Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP-61)
Six Day War (1967)
Smith, Sir Rupert
Somalia
Sorensen, Theodore
Southern Command
South Korea
South Vietnam
coup of 1963
Soviet Empire
demise of
Soviet Union (USSR)
Cuban Missile Crisis and
Space Command
Special Group (Augmented)
special operations
Special Operations Command
speed (shock and awe), of war
Stalin, Josef
standing army
State Department
Stewart, James
Strategic Air Command (film)
Strategic Air Command (SAC)
renamed Strategic Command
strategic triad
Subic Bay naval station
Summers, Harry
Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway)
Sunni Awakening
surge
Syria
Taiwan
Taliban
Taylor, Maxwell D.
“tea party” movement
Tet Offensive
Thailand
Thomas, Evan
Time
Tonkin Gulf incident
Tower, John
“transformation”
Truman, Harry
Turkey
U-2 spy plane
Uncertain Trumpet, The (Taylor)
United Arab Emirates
United Nations
U.S. Air Force
U.S. armed forces
all-volunteer
casualties and
citizen-soldier and
credibility of
elite unites
stationed abroad
U.S. Army
160th Aviation Regiment
173rd Airborne Brigade
Combined Arms Center (CAC)
counterinsurgency manual
Special Forces
U.S. Army Air Corps
U.S. Army War College
U.S. Congress
U.S. Constitution
U.S. House of Representatives
Government Reform Committee
U.S. Marine Corps
U.S. Navy
SEALs
Pacific Fleet
U.S. News & World Report
U.S. Senate
Armed Services committee
Church committee hearings
Foreign Relations Committee
Utility of Force, The (Smith)
Venezuela
Viet Cong
Vietnam Legacy, The (Lake)
Vietnam Moratorium Committee
“Vietnam syndrome”
Vietnam War
critiques of
response to defeat in
JFK and
LBJ and
Nixon and
Petraeus on
reinterpretation of
reintroduction of COIN after
reinvention of war after
Wagner, Robert
Wag the Dog (film)
Wallace, George
War Department
war games
war and warfare. See also permanent war