The Worth of War (37 page)

military experiences,
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38
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40
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43
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50
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74

Romm, Mikhail,
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Roosevelt, Eleanor,
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
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90
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91
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111
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113
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159
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175
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185
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200

“Rosie the Riveter” (Evans and Loeb),
102

Rotblat, Josef,
31

Royal Navy (Britain),
80
,
133
,
144
–
45

Royal Society of London,
44

Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies (RUSI) (Britain),
55

Russett, Bruce,
211

Russia,
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82
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83
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84
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87
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96
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97
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119
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142
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198

Crimean War,
142

Russian Civil War,
82

Snowden seeking asylum in,
192
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209

as the Soviet Union (USSR),
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20
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37
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69
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79
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(
see also
World War II)

Russian Orthodox Church,
120

Safavid empire,
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St. Clair, Arthur,
193

Salvation Army,
103

Saudi Arabia,
78

Schenk, Joseph,
114

Schrödinger, Erwin,
31

secondary use of technology,
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77
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79
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Second Macedonian War,
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Second Punic War,
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Second World War.
See
World War II

secrecy in government (US),
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169
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209
.
See also
security

classification schemes,
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93
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96

Secret Service Agency (US),
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security,
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55
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159
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191
,
219
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20
.
See also
secrecy in government (US); surveillance

national security,
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(
see also
the National Security Act of 1947; National Security Agency [NSA]; and National Security Council [NSC])

“preclusive security,”
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Sedition Act (US),
109

Segrè, Emilio,
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Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities.
See
Congress (US), Church Committee

Seleucid Empire,
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71

Seligman, Joseph,
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,
141

September 11, 2001, attacks,
144
,
215

Sergeant York
(film),
113

Seven Years' War,
133

SHAMROCK, Project (NSA surveillance program),
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Sierra Club,
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Signals Intelligence Service (SIS) of US Army,
183

Simon, Jonathan,
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Skocpol, Theda,
147

Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe,
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28
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30
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Smaller War Plants Corporation (US),
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Smith Act of 1940 (US),
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71

Snepp, Frank W.,
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Snowden, Edward,
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192
,
209

Social Darwinism,
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“Social Insurance and Allied Services” (Beveridge report),
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25

Socialist Party,
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Solove, Daniel,
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Spain,
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130

Spanish-American War,
156

Spanish Inquisition,
19

Sparta (ancient),
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Spencer, Herbert,
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Spewack, Samuel,
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Springfield Arsenal,
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Sputnik,
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Stalin, Joseph,
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29
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Stanton, Edwin M.,
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Stark, Johannes,
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Stassen, Harold,
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State Department (US),
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159
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60
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170
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171

state power,
13

and economic development,
61
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129
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30

encouraging volunteerism,
102
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104

governmental brutality and war,
93
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128

increase in presidential powers in the United States,
158
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63

lack of war causing a state to turn inward against own citizens,
215
–
20

need for in the face of war,
51
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54

need to generate revenues through citizen support,
99
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102
,
147
–
48
(
see also
funding for wars)

state as a “protection racket,”
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15
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using persuasion rather than force,
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war creating citizens,
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28
(
see also
citizen soldiers)

war enhancing and expanding power of the state,
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209
(
see also
popular government; secrecy in government [US]; surveillance)

Steinberger, Jack,
31

Stern, Carl,
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Stern, Otto,
31

Stevenson-Kefauver presidential campaign,
178

Stewart, Martha,
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19

Stimson, Henry,
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stock companies in England,
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strategic planning,
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Strategic Studies Institute,
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Students for a Democratic Society,
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Sullivan, William C.,
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Sun Tzu (Sunzi),
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35
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49

supplies and logistics in warfare,
45
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49
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Supreme Court (US),
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executive privilege cases in court system,
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surveillance,
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209
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Sweden,
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Syracuse (in Second Punic War),
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Syria,
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systems analysis,
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56

Szilard, Leo,
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,
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Taiwan,
78
,
80

Taney, Michael,
127

Tanks a Million
(film),
113

Taranaki Maori,
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Tartaglia, Niccolò,
44

Tata Motors,
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taxes as source of funds.
See
funding for wars

technological development,
11
,
59
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91

causing economic development,
129
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30
,
133

espionage, used to gain new technology,
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internationalization of scientific training,
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states with more economic development having better weapons,
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technology gap between Old and New Worlds,
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weapons development,
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Teller, Edward,
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Tenochtitlan,
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Tenure of Office Act (US),
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terrorism,
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,
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Thermopylae, Battle of (480 BCE),
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think tanks, military use of,
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Thirty Years' War,
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Thompson, Larry, and “Thompson Memorandum,”
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Three Kingdoms, wars between,
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Thucydides,
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Tilly, Charles,
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15
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Tommy Dorsey Orchestra,
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Total Information Awareness project of DARPA (US),
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Trade Act of 1974 (US),
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trade treaties, giving president more authority to engage in,
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61

training in warfare,
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efforts to train soldiers to engage in combat,
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Trajan (Roman emperor),
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Treasury Department (US),
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treaties and presidential power,
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Trotsky, Leon,
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Truman, Harry, and his administration,
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Tunisia,
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Twentieth-Century Fox,
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Ulam, Stanislaw,
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
See
Russia

United Kingdom.
See
Great Britain

United Mine Workers,
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United States,
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,
55
.
See also names of agencies, departments, etc.

control of the military,
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56
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63

and the development of the Continental Army in colonial America,
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economic, commercial, and industrial development,
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finding funds to field armies,
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foreign policy,
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imperial overreach of,
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increase in presidential powers,
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military organization and structure,
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national welfare programs developed because of wars,
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125
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receiving transfer of intellectuals from Nazi Germany,
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and use of citizen militias and conscripts,
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and use of propaganda,
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and voting rights,
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27
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and war,
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36
,
169
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209
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,
215
(
see also names of specific wars, i.e., American Civil War, Iraq War, World War I, etc.
; secrecy in government [US]; surveillance)

United States v. American Telephone & Telegraph
,
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United States v. District Court of the District of Columbia
,
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–
203

United States v. House of Representatives
,
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United States v. Nixon
,
202

United Technologies Corporation,
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Untermenschen (Nazi label of Slavs),
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28
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30
,
37