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Authors: Benjamin Ginsberg

The Worth of War (36 page)

McCarthy, Joseph,
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,
179

McCord, James,
182

McGovern, George,
150
,
153

McKitrick, Eric,
100
,
139

McNamara, Robert,
197

McNeill, William,
133

Meigs, Montgomery,
47

Melos (island of),
33
,
34

mens rea
requirement,
219

Mexican War,
149
,
150
–
51

Meyerhoff, Otto,
31

MGM,
113
,
116

Middle East, US military in.
See
Afghanistan War; Iraq War

Miers, Harriet,
205

Milgram, Stanley, and Milgram experiment,
43

military, control of in the United States

congressional control (Madisonian solution),
145
–
46
,
155
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56

presidential control after 1947,
156
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63

military conscription,
48
,
94
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95
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147
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149
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154
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164
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167
,
170

move to professional military in the United States,
163
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68

military forces,
66
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95
,
96
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101
,
143
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146
,
156
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57
,
163
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166
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67
.
See also
citizen soldiers

general curriculum of warfare for,
32
–
57

use of mercenaries,
40
,
95
,
97

MINARET, Project (NSA surveillance program),
184
,
185

Ministry of Education (Britain),
125

Ministry of Information (MOI) (Britain),
112

Ministry of Munitions (France),
124

Mischling (person of mixed blood),
25
,
27

Mitchell, Billy,
157

MITRE Corporation,
55

Moctezuma II (Aztec emperor),
23

Moltke, Helmut von (the elder),
46

Mongols use of supply lines,
46

Moniteur
(newspaper),
108

Morgan, J. P.,
140

Morgenthau, Henry,
116
,
118

Moriori of the Chatham Islands,
214

Morse, Wayne,
153

Moses of Bristol,
51

MPRI (Military Professional Resources Incorporated),
166

Mughal empires,
65

Munitions Ministry (Britain),
124

Murchison, Clint,
178

Nanda empire,
33
–
34

Napoleon Bonaparte,
19
,
45
,
46
,
96
–
97
,
108
,
135

Napoleon III (emperor of France),
135

National Archives,
196

National Assembly (France),
107
,
108

National Declassification Center (NDC) (US),
196

National Defense Act of 1916 (US),
157

National Defense Act of 1920 (US),
48

National Defense Highway Program (US),
58

National Guard (US),
156
–
57

National Health Service (Britain),
125

National Security Act of 1947 (US),
156
,
157
–
58
,
161
,
181
,
194
,
196

National Security Agency (NSA) (US),
163
,
171
–
73
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183
–
84
,
188
–
89
,
192
,
199
,
200
,
208

National Security Council (NSC) (US),
156
,
158
,
159
,
161

National Security Directives (NSDs) (also known as National Security Presidential Directives and National Security Decision Directives) (US),
161
,
162

National Security Letters (NSL),
187

National War Aims Committee (NWAC) (Britain),
110

national welfare state developing public support for war,
123
–
25

Native Americans,
15
,
16
,
66
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67
,
77
–
78
,
93
,
97

Navy (US),
156
,
157
,
166

Navy Blues
(film),
113

“Navy Way,”
19

Nazism.
See
Germany

Neff, John U.,
9

Nelson, Richard R.,
11

neo-Darwinism,
11

neo-Hobbesians,
211
–
13

neo-Kantians,
211
,
213

neo-Lamarckism,
11

Nepal,
129

Netherlands,
130
,
131

New Deal,
111
,
122

“New Politics” movement of the 1970s (in US),
150
,
153
,
154

New York riot in 1863,
149

New York Times
(newspaper),
116
,
182
,
187
–
88

New Zealand,
183

9/11 attacks,
144
,
215

Nine Years' War,
131
,
132
–
33

Nixon, Richard, and his administration,
153
–
54
,
159
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164
,
174
,
178
–
79
,
182
,
184
–
85
,
190
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197
,
205

Nixon v. Administrator of General Services
(US),
202

NKVD (Soviet security service),
41

North American Free Trade Agreement,
160

North Korea,
85
,
143
.
See also
Korean War

Northrop Grumman,
87
,
166

nuclear weapons,
79
,
85
,
86
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143
–
44
,
208

atomic bomb,
30
,
31
,
32
,
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91
,
211

Nuremberg Laws of 1935,
25

Nye, Gerald,
116

Obama, Barack, and his administration,
11
,
155
,
188
,
190
,
196
,
201
,
205
,
207

observation and dissemination of technology,
76
,
80
–
83

Odegard, Peter,
118
–
19

O'Dell, Jack,
181

Office of Censorship (US),
191

Office of Price Administration (OPA) (US),
111

Office of War Information (OWI) (US),
115

Official Secrets Act (Britain),
192

Ohain, Hans von,
87

“Operation CHAOS,”
182

“Operation Lusty,”
88

Oppenheimer, J. Robert,
31

organization in warfare,
38
–
39

Ottoman empire,
65

Paine, Thomas,
107

Pakistan,
85
,
199

Palmer Raids against radicals in the United States,
170

Paramount,
116

Paterson, William,
131

Patriot Act of 2001 (US),
187

Pauli, Wolfgang,
31

Pearl Harbor attack,
19
,
116
,
119
,
215

Peloponnesian wars,
33

“Pentagon Papers,”
191
,
197
–
98
,
199

Pergamon (Greek city-state),
70

Perret, Geoffrey,
10
,
215

Perry, Matthew C.,
81
,
141

Pershing, John J.,
113
,
157

Persian empire,
45
–
46

Persian Gulf War (1990),
167

persuasion, government use of,
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95
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–
127

Perutz, Max,
31

Philadelphia Committee of Privates,
148

Philip (king of Macedon),
70
,
71

Philip II (king of Macedon),
73

Pierce, Franklin,
151

Pizarro, Francisco,
22
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62
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63

planning in warfare,
15
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35
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37
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56

“plumbers' squad,”
174

policy planning in the United States,
158
,
161

politics,
10
,
13
.
See also
state power impact of FBI on,
175
–
81

new political forces,
150
–
55

secular sources of political magic,
17
–
19

Polk, James K.,
149

Pol Pot,
93

popular government,
169
–
209
,
217

governmental transparency necessary for,
191
,
209
(
see also
secrecy in government [US])

protecting citizens from government scrutiny,
173
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174
–
75
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191
(
see also
surveillance)

requiring citizens be informed,
173
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208
–
209

Porter, Bruce,
123

Pratt and Whitney,
85

Pravda
(newspaper),
121

“preclusive security,”
35

presidential power (US),
156
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63
,
166
–
67

President's Surveillance Program (PSP) (US),
187
,
188

PRISM surveillance program of NSA,
188
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89
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201

privacy,
173
,
174
–
75
.
See also
surveillance

private contractors (US),
165
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67

Progress and Poverty
(George),
9

propaganda,
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121
,
122
–
23

Protect America Act of 2007 (US),
188

“protection racket,” state as,
214
–
17
,
220

Prussia.
See
Germany

Putin, Vladimir,
198

Qin Empire,
58

racial hierarchy of Nazis as magical thinking,
24
–
32

Radio Communications Act of 1912 (US),
171
–
72

Railroad Administration (US),
169

Rainbow, The
(film),
120

Raines, Claude,
114

RAND Corporation,
55

rationality, war as agent of,
15
–
58
,
59

Reagan, Ronald, and his administration,
161
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195
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96
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203
,
208

Realpolitik,
24
,
34

Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (1934),
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61

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (originally War Finance Corporation) (US),
169

Reconstruction policies (US),
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52

recruitment in warfare,
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43
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–
57
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147

Red Army,
142

Red Cross,
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–
103
,
147
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213
,
216

Red Star
(newspaper),
121

Reemployment and Retraining Administration (US),
170

Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (Germany),
112

Reichsbank (Germany),
137

religious dogma,
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19
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22

Republican Party (in US),
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17
,
100
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139
,
149
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150
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Revenue Act of 1942 (US),
101
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116

Revere, Paul,
107

reverse engineering,
76
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78
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80
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88

reverse technology flows,
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–
76

Rhodes (Greek city-state),
70

Richard I (king of England),
52

Richard III (king of England),
50

“Rights of Man” (Paine),
107

Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, The
(Kennedy),
146

RKO,
116

Robertson, Dick,
117

Robinson, Edward G.,
113

robotics, use of in warfare,
59
,
91

Rockefeller Foundation,
31

Rogers, Ginger,
117

Rogers, William,
159

Roman Empire,
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10
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32
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35
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