bindex.qxd 6/9/06 10:19 AM Page 307 INDEX ABC News, 98 Aspin, Les, 235 Abraham Lincoln, 272 atomic bombs Abrams, Creighton, 147, 148, 155, 158–159 Hiroshima and, 33, 44–45 Abrams, Elliott, 203–204 Korean War and, 42 Abu Ghraib, 277–280 mutual assured destruction (MAD) and, 48 Acheson, Dean, 39 See also nuclear weapons Cuban Missile Crisis and, 84, 87 Korean War and, 35, 36, 39, 41, 44 Baathist regime, 272. See also Iraq Vietnam War and, 131–132 Bacon, Augustus O., 23 Adams, John, 14 Baker, James, 190, 231, 237 Adams, John Quincy, 17 Panama, 223 Adams, Sherman, 55 Yugoslavia and, 237 Adelman, Kenneth, 261 Balaguer, Joaquin, 129 Adenauer, Konrad, 94 Balkans, 237–242, 245 Afghanistan, 287–288 Ball, George, 105 Carter and, 187–189 Cuban Missile Crisis, 78 Clinton and, 243, 244, 245 Vietnam War, 120–121, 124, 132 George H. W. Bush and, 222, 223–224 Barzani, Mustafa, 184 George W. Bush and, 249, 252–256, 257, Batista, Fulgencio, 61–62 269, 280 Battle of New Orleans, 15 Reagan and, 191, 193, 200–201 Bay of Pigs, 64–71, 77, 85, 235 Africa, 233–234, 245. See also individual names Beckwith, Bob, 254 of countries Beecher, William, 149, 159 Aidid, Mohammed Farrah, 234, 236 Begin, Menachem, 193 Allen, Richard, 190 Beirut. See Lebanon Allende Gossens, Salvador, 164–166 Bennett, Tapley, 129 al-Qaeda, 243–245, 249–253 Berger, Sandy, 234, 244, 249 Iraq and, 250–256, 257–269, 274–276 Berlin Wall, 34, 221 prisoners of United States and, 276–280 Biden, Joseph, 248–249 September 11 attacks and, 253–256, 269 Bin Laden, Osama, 227, 243–245, 248–256 Al-Shiraa (Lebanon), 214, 216 “Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US” Alsop, Joseph, 123 (Presidential Daily Brief, August 6, aluminum tubes, for nuclear weapons, 265, 267 2001), 252 American SocietyCOPYRIGHTED of Newspaper Editors, 54 Bird MATERIAL Air, 173 Anaconda, 254 Bishop, Maurice, 197 Anderson, George, 54, 86, 92–93, 96–97 Bissell, Richard, 50, 63, 65–66, 70 Anderson, Rudolph, 100 Black, Hugo, 45–46, 284 Annan, Kofi, 262 Black Hawk helicopter incident, 235–237 anti-war movement (Vietnam), 128, 140–142, Blackstone (legal scholar), 11 145, 161–162. See also public opinion Blair, Tony, 258–259, 268 Arbenz, Jacobo, 50, 51, 63, 65 Blix, Hans, 258, 262, 266–270, 274, 276 Argentina, 182–183 “blowback,” 201 Armas, Castillo, 50 Boland, Edward, 206–207 ARVN (South Vietnamese Army), 157 Boland amendments, 206–208, 209, 217, 219, Ashcroft, John, 239–240, 280 220 307 bindex.qxd 6/9/06 10:19 AM Page 308 308 INDEX Bolshakov, Georgi, 95–96 Mayaguez and, 175–181 Bolton, John R., 275 U.S. attack on, 146–149 Bonner, Raymond, 203–204 “Camelot,” 65 Boot, Max, 137 Canada, 234 Bosch, Juan, 129 Cannon, Lou, 189, 191, 194, 195 Bosnia and Herzegovina, 237–242, 269 on El Salvador, 204 Boston Globe, 291 on Grenada, 198–199 Boutros-Ghali, Boutros, 234–237, 245 on Iran-Contra Affair, 219 Bowden, Mark, 235 on Nicaragua, 207, 208 Boxer Rebellion, 23 views on Poindexter, 211 BP, 49 Carney, William, 57 Bradley, Omar, 43, 44, 131–132 Carter, Jimmy, 4 Bremer, L. Paul, 273, 281 Afghanistan, 187–188 Brinkley, David, 141 Central America, 192 Brown, Harold, 186 El Salvador, 202 Browne, Malcolm, 103 Iran, 183–189, 206, 290 Brumheller, Tyler, 275 Panama Canal, 182 Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 183–189 South America, 182–183 Buddhists, South Vietnam and, 103–105 Carter, Marshall, 78, 81 Bundy, McGeorge, 77 Casablanca Conference, 29 Cuban Missile Crisis, 78, 82, 83, 87 Casey, William, 189, 191, 193 Vietnam War, 111 Iran-Contra Affair and, 209–220 Bunker, Ellsworth, 155 Nicaragua, 207 Burchinal, David, 118 Castro, Fidel, 61–63 Burke, Arleigh, 68 Bay of Pigs, 64–71, 77, 85, 235 Burns, John J., 176 Cuban Missile Crisis, 74–77, 95–103 Bush, George H. W., 4, 9, 221–222 Operation Mongoose, 70–71, 74, 101 Afghanistan, 222, 223–224 Reagan administration and, 192 assassination attempt by Hussein, 70–71, See also Cuba; Cuban Missile Crisis 243, 263 CBS Iraq, 224–233, 266 on Iraq, 278 on media, 232 on Vietnam War, 106, 133 Panama, 15, 222–223 Chalabi, Ahmad, 275 public opinion of, 233 Charles, Eugenia, 197 as vice president, 197, 214, 220 Cheney, Dick, 258 Yugoslavia, 237 on electronic “eavesdropping,” 284–285 Bush, George W., 3, 4, 7–8, 246, 248–249, 293 Iraq, 248, 250, 251, 253, 261, 266, 274 on “axis of evil,” 258 Iraq, and war prisoners, 277 Bin Laden and, 249–256 as Secretary of Defense, 226–229 on due process (Japanese internment Chiang Kai-shek, 28, 35, 41, 42, 56, 57–58 camps), 28 Chile, 164–166, 182–183 electronic “eavesdropping” and, 8, 283–285 China, 19 Iraq, 16, 18, 19, 70, 250–256, 257–269, atomic weapons, 121 274–276 “China Syndrome,” 35 Iraq, insurgency, 271–274, 277, 279, 282 Iraq and, 250 Iraq, “Mission Accomplished,” 272 Kennedy and, 65 Iraq, war prisoners, 276–281 Korean War and, 35–43, 48 Bush, Joseph, 157 McKinley and, 23 Bushnell, John, 202 mujahideen support by, 189 Bybee, Jay S., 277 Nationalist vs. Red, 56–58 Byrd, Robert, 169 Soviet Union relations, during Vietnam War, 137–138 Calhoun, John C., 16–17 Strait of Formosa, 56 Calley, William L., Jr., 156 Tenet on, 250 Cambodia, 16, 110, 125, 136, 157–163 Vietnam War and, 51, 54–58, 172–173 Dewey Canyon II, 168 World War II, 27, 28 independence of, 55 Chirac, Jacques, 259 Khmer Rouge, 170, 173 Chou En-lai, 56 bindex.qxd 6/9/06 10:19 AM Page 309 INDEX 309 Christopher, Warren, 235, 239, 240–241, 242 war powers of, 11–16, 22–23, 29, 237 Church, Frank, 137, 173 (See also war powers; War Powers Act) Churchill, Winston, 28, 29, 53 See also U.S. Congress; U.S. Constitution; CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 6 U.S. Senate; individual names of presidents Afghanistan, 187–188 “Commander-in-Chief Election, The” (Time), 3 Bay of Pigs, 65, 66, 70, 77 communism Bin Laden, 243–245, 250 Afghanistan and, 187–189 Chile, 164–166 Berlin Wall, 34, 221 Cuban Missile Crisis, 77–79, 87–88, 90, 91, containment policy, 33–34, 36, 65, 188 94, 96, 98–99 “evil empire” and, 189 established 1947, 33 “falling domino” metaphor, 108, 127 Gulf War (1991), 225–226 Iran and, 49–50 Iran, 50 Kennedy on, 72 Iran-Contra Affair, 209–220 Lebanon and, 60–61 Iraq, 267–268, 274, 276 Reagan’s speech at Brandenburg Gate, 221 Korean War, 41 See also China; Cuba; Korean War; Soviet Nicaragua, 207, 208 Union; Vietnam War Operation Mongoose, 101 containment policy, 33–34, 36, 65, 188. PBSUCCESS, 50–51 See also communism “Program of Covert Action Against the Contras, 206–208 Castro Regime,” 62–63 Iran-Contra Affair, Boland amendment and, Vietnam War, 105, 115–116 206–208, 209, 217, 219, 220 See also individual names of conflicts; individual Iran-Contra Affair, events of, 209–216 names of presidents Iran-Contra Affair, hearings, 216–220 civil disobedience, 145 Conway, James, 273–274 civil rights movement Coolidge, Calvin, 25 University of Mississippi, 85 Cooper, John Sherman, 114, 173 Vietnam War and, 128 Cooper-Church amendment, 162–163, 173 Clark, Bill, 199 Costa Rica, 214 Clark, Wesley, 247 Coudert, Frederick, Jr., 41 Clarke, Richard, 235–236, 244 Cowles, John, 131–132 on al-Qaeda, 249–252 Croatia, 237–242 views on George W. Bush, 248 Cronkite, Walter, 106 Clausewitz, Carl von, 1, 289 Crowe, William J., Jr., 2, 4, 213 Clay, Henry, 17 Cuba Cleveland, Grover, 21 Bay of Pigs and, 64–71, 77, 85, 235 Clifford, Clark, 141 Cuban Missile Crisis, 74–77 Clinton, Bill, 4, 9, 246, 249 Eisenhower, 61–63 Bin Laden and, 243–245, 254 Reagan, 205 former Yugoslavia states, 237–242 Spanish-American War and, 21–22 Iraq, 243 See also Castro, Fidel; Cuban Missile Crisis Kosovo, 237, 246–248 Cuban Missile Crisis, 9, 74–79, 82, 292 1993 World Trade Center bombing, 242 Alsop on, 123 prisoner interrogation outsourced by, blockade, tactics of, 94–103, 96–97 279–280 blockade vs. airstrikes, 80–89 Rumsfeld’s views on, 257 Kennedy’s speech to nation about, 90–92 Somalia, 233–237 orders for quarantine, 92–93 Coalition forces (Iraq War), 272, 273–274, 282 strategy, 78–90 Cohen, William, 244, 249, 250 “Curveball,” 275–276 cold war containment policy and, 33–34, 36, 65, 188 Daniel Boone teams, 147 mutual assured destruction (MAD), 48 Danner, Mark, 204 See also communism Darfur, 245 Cole, 247, 249 D’Aubuisson, Roberto, 192, 201–205 commander in chief, authority of, 1–9, 27 Da’wa, 213 personal animosity as motivation of, 70–71 Dean, Arthur, 131–132 War Powers Act, 169–172, 177, 180, Dearlove, Richard, 259 194–195, 260 Deaver, Michael, 190 bindex.qxd 6/9/06 10:19 AM Page 310 310 INDEX Declaration of Independence, 14 Vietnam War, 55 De Gaulle, Charles, 51 War of 1812, 15 Cuban Missile Crisis and, 94 war powers of king, 11, 13, 14, 284 Vietnam War and, 123 World War II, 26, 28 DeGette, Diana, 264 “the Enterprise,” 210, 214 Democratic Convention (1968), 145 Esterline, Jake, 51 Desert Storm, 4 “evil empire,” 189 DESOTO patrols, 112–113, 116 Executive Committee (ExCom), National Dewey Canyon II, 168 Security Council, 77–81, 83, 86–87, 96, Dhahran, 243 98. See also Cuban Missile Crisis Diem, Ngo Dinh, 72–73, 103–108, 133 Dien Bien Phu, 52–55 Fahd, king of Saudi Arabia, 225, 226–228 Dillon, Douglas, 78, 80, 87–88 Faisal II, king of Iraq, 60 Dirksen, Everett, 89, 134 Falkland Islands, 199 Dobrynin, Anatoly, 77, 91, 96, 99–100 “falling domino” metaphor, 108, 127 Dodd, Thomas, 73 Fast, Barbara, 280 Dole, Robert, 224, 242, 289 Fay, George R., 278–279, 279 Dominica, 197 FBI Dominican Republic, 128–129 on al-Qaeda, 249, 251 Dong, Pham Van, 152 Nixon and, 167 Dougherty, Russell, 125 on September 11 attacks, 255 Douglas, Paul, 38–39 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), 251, Downie, Leonard, 290 255 Downing Street Memo, 259 Federalist Papers Drain, Richard, 51 Hamilton, 5, 13, 283–284