Authors: Benjamin Ginsberg
McCord, James,
182
McNamara, Robert,
197
McNeill, William,
133
Meigs, Montgomery,
47
mens rea
requirement,
219
Meyerhoff, Otto,
31
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
â
46
,
155
â
56
presidential control after 1947,
156
â
63
military conscription,
48
,
94
â
95
,
96
,
98
,
147
,
149
,
154
,
164
,
167
,
170
move to professional military in the United States,
163
â
68
military forces,
66
,
95
,
96
,
98
â
101
,
143
,
146
,
156
â
57
,
163
,
166
â
67
.
See also
citizen soldiers
general curriculum of warfare for,
32
â
57
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
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
Napoleon Bonaparte,
19
,
45
,
46
,
96
â
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 Health Service (Britain),
125
National Security Act of 1947 (US),
156
,
157
â
58
,
161
,
181
,
194
,
196
National Security Agency (NSA) (US),
163
,
171
â
73
,
183
â
84
,
188
â
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
â
25
Native Americans,
15
,
16
,
66
â
67
,
77
â
78
,
93
,
97
Navy Blues
(film),
113
“Navy Way,”
19
Nazism.
See
Germany
Neff, John U.,
9
Nelson, Richard R.,
11
neo-Darwinism,
11
neo-Lamarckism,
11
Nepal,
129
“New Politics” movement of the 1970s (in US),
150
,
153
,
154
New York riot in 1863,
149
New York Times
(newspaper),
116
,
182
,
187
â
88
New Zealand,
183
Nixon, Richard, and his administration,
153
â
54
,
159
,
164
,
174
,
178
â
79
,
182
,
184
â
85
,
190
,
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
nuclear weapons,
79
,
85
,
86
,
143
â
44
,
208
atomic bomb,
30
,
31
,
32
,
86
,
90
â
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
â
83
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
â
39
Ottoman empire,
65
Paine, Thomas,
107
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
â
98
,
199
Pergamon (Greek city-state),
70
Persian Gulf War (1990),
167
persuasion, government use of,
94
â
95
,
104
â
127
Perutz, Max,
31
Philadelphia Committee of Privates,
148
Philip (king of Macedon),
70
,
71
Philip II (king of Macedon),
73
Pierce, Franklin,
151
planning in warfare,
15
,
35
â
37
,
54
â
56
“plumbers' squad,”
174
policy planning in the United States,
158
,
161
politics,
10
,
13
.
See also
state power impact of FBI on,
175
â
81
secular sources of political magic,
17
â
19
Polk, James K.,
149
Pol Pot,
93
popular government,
169
â
209
,
217
governmental transparency necessary for,
191
,
209
(
see also
secrecy in government [US])
protecting citizens from government scrutiny,
173
,
174
â
75
,
191
(
see also
surveillance)
requiring citizens be informed,
173
,
208
â
209
Porter, Bruce,
123
Pratt and Whitney,
85
Pravda
(newspaper),
121
“preclusive security,”
35
presidential power (US),
156
â
63
,
166
â
67
President's Surveillance Program (PSP) (US),
187
,
188
PRISM surveillance program of NSA,
188
â
89
,
201
privacy,
173
,
174
â
75
.
See also
surveillance
private contractors (US),
165
â
67
Progress and Poverty
(George),
9
Protect America Act of 2007 (US),
188
“protection racket,” state as,
214
â
17
,
220
Prussia.
See
Germany
Putin, Vladimir,
198
Qin Empire,
58
racial hierarchy of Nazis as magical thinking,
24
â
32
Radio Communications Act of 1912 (US),
171
â
72
Railroad Administration (US),
169
Rainbow, The
(film),
120
Raines, Claude,
114
RAND Corporation,
55
rationality, war as agent of,
15
â
58
,
59
Reagan, Ronald, and his administration,
161
,
195
â
96
,
203
,
208
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (1934),
160
â
61
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (originally War Finance Corporation) (US),
169
Reconstruction policies (US),
151
â
52
recruitment in warfare,
39
â
43
,
56
â
57
,
147
Red Army,
142
Red Cross,
102
â
103
,
147
,
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,
17
,
18
â
19
,
20
â
22
Republican Party (in US),
16
â
17
,
100
,
139
,
149
,
150
,
151
Revenue Act of 1942 (US),
101
,
116
Revere, Paul,
107
reverse engineering,
76
,
78
,
79
â
80
,
88
reverse technology flows,
69
â
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