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Index 1st Armored Division, 155–56, 158, 164 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta, 70, 72–73, 75, 76, 222–23 7th Special Forces Group, 69, 27 8th Special Forces Group, 27 10th Mountain Division, 133–34, 136, 137, 243 10th Special Forces Group, 17, 125, 249 82nd Airborne Division, 55–56, 248, 250 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), 243, 248, 250 Abrams, Creighton, 5, 54, 58, 60, 76, 287 Abu Sayyaf, 232–33, 264 Achille Lauro, 90, 220, 228 Active Defense Doctrine, 9, 65–66, 92 Afghanistan, 2–3, 10, 56, 57, 62, 82, 83, 94, 99–104, 146, 159, 163, 226, 230, 232, 236, 237, 240–47, 249, 250, 252, 255, 256, 259, 271, 272, 274, 275, 277, 283, 285, 287, 290, 293, 294 Africa, 15, 16, 23, 27, 42, 50, 71, 79, 120, 124, 130, 132, 153, 144, 146, 147, 162, 188, 233–34, 265, 294; and 1998 embassy bombings, 226–27, 228 Africa Command (AFRICOM), 234 Airland Battle Doctrine, 9, 66, 92–93, 113, 145, 278, 279, 288 Al-Maliki, Nouri, 260, 293 Al-Qaeda, x, 1, 4, 10, 212, 233, 236, 243– 45, 246, 261, 264 Al-Sadr, Muqtada, 252 Albright, Madeleine, 139, 143, 145–46, 147, 148, 150, 190, 225 Allende Gossens, Salvador, 42 Aspin, Les, 135, 140–41, 150, 151 Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC), 196 Baghdad, 123, 126, 237, 248, 249, 250, 252, 256, 274, 293 Bank, Aaron, 17, 97–98 Bay of Pigs, 25, 26 Beckwith, Charlie, 71, 72–74 Beltran, Pedro, 29 Bennett, William, 185 Berger, Sandy, 148 bin Laden, Osama, 1, 226, 227 Blue Light, 70 Boutros-Ghali, Boutros, 119, 131 Bremer, L. Paul, 251, 257 Brown, Daniel E., 134 Brown, George S., 45, 66 Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 51, 52, 56, 57, 72 Bundy, McGeorge, 24, 26 Bush, George H. W., 4, 108–10, 115, 140, 141, 146, 151, 184, 186, 188, 192, 223; and First Gulf War, 124; and New World Order, 121–23, 154; and Somali intervention, 130–33; and Terrorism , 222 404 Index Bush, George W., x, 1, 167, 228, 286; and drug war, 190–91, 202; and Operation Iraqi Freedom, 247, 250; and private military corporations, 265; and terrorism , 227–28 Carter, Jimmy, 51–57, 68, 84, 91, 95, 104, 109, 140, 147; and Afghanistan, 99–100; and drug war 180–81; and Iran hostage rescue mission; 72–74 and terrorism, 217–19 Carter Doctrine, 9, 100 Castro, Fidel, 25, 68, 185, 197 Central Command (CENTCOM), 97, 113–14, 126, 127, 231, 247; and Operation Enduring Freedom, 240–43; and Operation Iraqi Freedom, 250, 252, 255, 256, 257 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 17, 68, 100, 101, 108, 179–80, 215, 231, 291 Cheney, Richard, 22, 110 Christopher, Warren M., 140, 142, 143, 146 Church Committee, 67–68, 81 Church, Frank, 74 Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG), 5, 33 Civilian Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS), 33, 34–35, 86, 188 Clinton, William J., 110–11, 136, 138–42, 145–48, 150, 153–55, 166–67, 228; and drug war, 188–91, 202, 208; and private military corporations, 265, 268–69, 281; and terrorism, 223, 225–26, 229 Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), 250–51, 257, 276 Colombia, 175, 176, 184, 186, 188–91, 194, 196–207, 208–9, 235; and private military corporations, 266, 280–82; and war on terror, 234–36 Combat Mission Training Center (CMTC), 163–65 Combined Action Platoon (CAP), 33 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), 48 Contras, 86, 88, 105, 223, 291; and drug war, 185 Cuba, 23, 25–26, 30, 50, 85, 90, 96, 144, 196, 213, 216, 291 Cyber war, 161, 162, 230 Dayton Peace Accords, 155, 158–59, 278 Diem, Ngo Dinh, 23, 31–32 Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), 175, 179, 180, 182, 186, 194 Emerson, Hank, 62 Escobar Gaviria, Pablo, 175, 197, 200 Fallujah, 2, 252, 275 FARMGATE, 32 FM 100–105, Operations, 65–67, 77, 128– 29, 137, 241, 245 Ford, Gerald R., 41, 42–50, 52, 54, 68, 104, 216–18 Fort Bragg, 17, 27, 98 Franks, Tommy, 240–41, 247 Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberaci ón Nacional (FMLN), 84–85 Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), 196–97, 199–201, 204, 206, 234, 235, 264, 280, 281 Gallup poll, 3, 41–42 Global War on Terror (GWOT), ix, 2–3, 190, 191, 205, 208, 211, 229–37, 240, 259, 271 Gorbachev, Mikhail, 103, 139 Greek Civil War, 14, 18–19 Grenada, 89–90, 95–96, 97, 287–88 Guevara, Ernesto “Che,” 25...

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