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Abdulmutallab, Umar Farouk,
136
–37

Abu Ghraib prison,
125

Accountability Review Board: and Benghazi attack,
157

Acheson, Dean,
46
–47,
54
,
55
,
57
,
59

Adams, John,
4

Afghan Interim Authority,
103

Afghan National Security Force (ANSF),
152
,
240

Afghanistan/Afghanistan War

and al Qaeda/bin Laden,
98
,
99
,
101
–3,
148
,
149
,
152

ANSF in,
152
,
240

as base for terrorists,
143

and Bush (George W.),
101
–2,
147
–48

and detention of terrorists,
106

drawdown plan for,
151
–52

elections of 2012 and,
154

ending of war in,
131
,
147
–53,
154
,
214

importance of U.S. involvement in,
101
–3

and Iran,
173
–74,
245

ISIS and,
152
,
168
,
241

Karzai as leader in,
103

Obama and,
3
,
131
,
143
,
147
–53,
154
,
214
,
240

politics and,
149
,
151

and restoring American power,
240

Taliban in,
149
,
151
,
152
,
155

U.S. troop strength in,
148
–49,
151
–52

withdrawal of U.S. forces from,
150
–52,
214
,
240

Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud,
175
,
182

Aidid, Mohammed,
96
–97

Air Force, U.S.,
234
–35

al Qaeda

in Afghanistan,
101
–3,
148
,
149
,
152

in Arabian Peninsula,
137
,
155

and Benghazi attack,
157
,
158
,
159
,
160

Cheney's feelings about,
100

“core,”
155

decline/demise of,
153
,
154
,
156
,
158
,
159
,
240

and defense spending,
211

as determined to attack U.S.,
137

and ending wars,
131
–32,
133
,
137
–38,
139
,
140
,
141
,
147
,
161

and increase in terrorism,
154
–55

and interrogation program,
108
–9,
131
–32,
133

Iraq and,
98
,
99
,
111
,
112
,
115
,
118
,
139
,
140
,
141
,
161

list of targets connected to,
98
–99

Obama and,
131
–32,
133
,
137
–38,
139
,
140
,
141
,
143
,
147
,
148
,
149
,
152
,
154
,
156
,
158
,
161
,
240

in Pakistan,
155

and presidential authorizations for NSA,
105

and restoring American power,
238
,
239
–40

and September 11 attack,
99
–100,
108

as terrorist threat,
93

training of members of,
98
,
99
,
136
,
137

and U.S. as “last best hope of earth,”
258

and U.S. reductions in Middle East,
211

weapons of,
93

See also
bin Laden, Osama;
specific person or attack

al Shabaab organization,
155

al-Sham organization,
155

al Shifa pharmaceutical plant (Sudan),
98
–99

Albright, Madeleine,
180

Allen, John,
151

Ambrose, Stephen,
27

American Enterprise Institute: Cheney speech at,
134

American Historical Association,
13

American Military Institute,
13

Anami, Korechika,
36

Andropov, Yuri,
80

Ansar al Islam,
112

anthrax,
93

appeasement

and Iran,
3
,
180
–94,
204
–5

Reagan's comments about,
171
,
258

and restoring American power,
232

Roosevelt's comment about,
10

and Russia,
171
,
194
–205

and Soviet-U.S. relations,
59
,
85

Applebaum, Anne,
50

Appropriations Committee, U.S. House,
211

Appropriations Committee, U.S. Senate,
210
–11

Arab Spring,
117

Arab states,
78
,
239
.
See also
Middle East;
specific state

Arabian Peninsula: al Qaeda in,
137
,
155

Armed Services Committee, U.S. House,
215

Armed Services Committee, U.S. Senate,
97
,
151
,
169
,
210
,
212

arms control,
252
–53

Army, U.S.

Korean War and,
55

Marshall sworn in as chief of staff of,
11

need for building and equipping the,
13
–16,
28

and restoring American power,
234
–35

size of,
12
–13,
209
,
210
,
211
,
234
–35

in World War II,
12
–16,
36

See also
military, U.S.; Rangers, U.S.

“Arsenal of Democracy,” U.S. as,
2
,
10
,
19
,
251
,
258

Article 5 (NATO defense pact),
53
,
249
–50

Ashcroft, John,
104

Asia

China's domination of,
258

“pivot” to,
214
–15,
220
–24,
249

and proliferation of nuclear weapons,
254

and restoring American power,
254

and U.S. as “last best hope of earth,”
258

See also specific nation

Assad, Bashar al-,
163
–64,
165
,
186
,
239
,
242

Associated Press: Iran story by,
185

Atkinson, Rick,
25
,
39
–40

atomic bombs,
5
,
33
–35,
36
–38,
56
,
57
,
129

Atomic Energy Commission,
57

Atta, Mohammed,
128

The Audacity of Hope
(Obama),
124

Auschwitz concentration camp,
30

Austin, Lloyd,
143
–44

Australia,
24
,
39
,
179
,
220
–21

Austria,
11
,
43
–44,
63
–64

authorizations, NSA,
103
–6,
133
,
235
,
240
–41

Awlaki, Anwar al-,
136

Aziz, Tariq,
111

Azm, Amr al-,
165

B-1 bomber program,
77
,
83

B-52 bomber project,
60

Baghdadi, Abu Bakr al–,
107
,
162
,
167

Baker, James,
91
–92

Baltic states,
203
,
204
,
220
,
249
,
250

Bank Mellat (Iran),
178
–79

Bank Melli (Iran),
179

Bank Saderat (Iran),
178
,
179

Bank Seph (Iran),
178

Battle of the Atlantic,
17

Battle of Britain,
17

Battle of the Bulge,
5

Bay of Pigs (Cuba),
63
,
64

BBC,
29

Ben-Gurion, David,
53

Benghazi, Libya: attack in,
117
–18,
156
–61

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp,
30

Berlin Airlift,
5
,
51

Berlin, Germany

and Cold War,
63
,
65
–68

demonstrations in,
87

and Khrushchev-Kennedy discussions,
63

Obama in,
218

and Reagan at Brandenburg Gate,
85
–86

Berlin Wall,
5
,
50
–51,
52
,
63
,
65
,
72
,
86
,
87
,
88
,
232

Berns, Walter,
2

Bevin, Ernest,
49
,
52

Bidault, Georges,
49

Biddle, Anthony,
12

Biden, Joseph,
115
,
118
,
179

bin Laden, Osama

Afghanistan as harboring,
102
–3

capture/death of,
109
,
153
–54,
156
,
214

declaration of war against U.S. by,
96
–98

documents captured from raid on,
155

elections of 2012 and,
154

indictment of,
99

and interrogation of terrorists,
109
,
135

Obama and,
153
–54,
156

See also
al Qaeda

biological weapons: Iraq and,
114
,
219

The Black Book of Communism
,
56

Blair, Dennis,
132

Blair, Tony,
109

Bohlen, Charles,
44

Boot, Max,
105
–6

Bradley, Omar,
28
,
33

Brandenburg Gate (Berlin)

Obama speech at,
218

Reagan speech at,
85
–86

Brennan, John,
132
,
137

Brezhnev, Leonid,
74

Brown, George,
76

Brown, Gordon,
182

Brzezinski, Zbigniew,
180

Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances (1994),
203
,
250

Budget Control Act (2011),
209
–10,
255

Bullitt, William C.,
11
–12

Burns, Bill,
142
–43

Bush, George H. W.,
70
,
93
,
94
,
200
,
219

Bush, George W.

and Afghanistan War,
147

and authorizations for NSA,
104
,
105

and Guantánamo prisoners,
106

INF Treaty and,
219

and Iran,
177
,
179

Iraq War and,
102
,
109
–12,
113
–14,
117
,
145

and nuclear weapons,
216

and Russia,
195

September 11 and,
101
–2,
105
,
119

and terrorism,
101

ultimatum to Taliban from,
101
–2

Bush Doctrine,
101

Cairo, Egypt

Obama speech (2009) in,
127
,
193
,
196

Tahrir Square protest in,
163

Cambodia,
70

Campbell, John,
152

Canada,
52

capitalism,
45
,
124

Carter, Ashton,
190
,
238

Carter, Jimmy,
76
–79,
83

Castro, Fidel,
63
,
67

Central Command, U.S. (CENTCOM),
97
,
147

Central Europe

Russia and,
197
–98

See also specific nation

Ceren, Omri,
189

Chamberlain, Neville,
11
,
193
–94

“Charter
77
” manifesto,
75
–76

chemical weapons,
113
,
166
,
186
,
219

Cheney, Dick

and authorizations for NSA,
104
–5

and enhanced interrogation methods,
133
–35

and importance of U.S. intelligence,
101

Makiya visit with,
110

September 11 memories of,
100

and Solzhenitsyn-Ford visit,
73
–74

Soviet Union visit of,
92
–93

terrorism comments of,
91
,
101

Chilton, Kevin,
201

China