428 index
Appomattox , 52 , 79
Arkansas , 35 , 58 , 71
Army Appropriation Act of 1916 , 105
Army of Northern Virginia
(Confederate) , 39 , 49 , 52 , 56
Army of the Ohio/Cumberland
(Union) , 45 , 50 , 376 n 54
Army of the Potomac (Union) , 44 ,
49–50 , 52 , 56 , 59 , 378 n 86
Army of the Republic of Vietnam
(ARVN) , 206 , 214 , 225–26 , 229 ,
236 , 244–45 , 253–62 , 267 , 270 ,
401 n 9 , 411–12 n 205 , 420 n 144
Army of Tennessee (Confederate) , 59
Army of the Tennessee (Union) , 44 , 50
Army, United States. See United States
Army
Arnett, Peter , 245
Arnold, Henry “Hap” , 169
Askariya Mosque , 312
Asymmetric warfare , 21–22 , 25 , 29 , 57
Atlanta campaign (1864) , 51 , 60 , 62
Atlantic Charter , 158 , 196
Atomic bomb , 159 , 186. ( See also
nuclear weapons )
Australia , 144 , 169–71 , 177
Austria , 122 , 194
Austria-Hungary , 86–87 , 123
Austro-Hungarian Empire. See
Austria-Hungary
B-17 bombers , 148 , 154
B-29 bombers , 177 , 185–86 , 195
B-52 bombers , 268–69
Baath Party , 279 , 290 , 293 , 296 ,
298–99 , 302 , 418 n 105
Bacevich, Andrew , 17 , 19
Bahrain , 322
Baker, James , 311–12
Baker, Newton , 103 , 106 , 109 , 111 ,
384 n 71 , 384 n 76
Balfour, Arthur , 99
Balkans, the , 159 , 172 , 175 , 184 , 194 ,
285 , 290 , 388 n 166
Ball, George , 208 , 211 , 214 , 281 , 403 n 35
Banks, Nathaniel , 55 , 71
Baruch, Bernard M. , 105 , 152
Basra , 275 , 295 , 319
Bataan , 169
Beauregard, P. G. T. , 35
Beijing (city) , 135. See People’s
Republic of China
Berlin (city) , 192. See also Germany
Berman, Larry , 266 , 408 n 107 , 408 n 113
Bethmann Hollweg, Th eobald von , 89
Beveridge Report (Great Britain) , 9
Bhagdad (city) , 4 , 276 , 279 , 287 , 291 ,
293–99 , 301 , 312 , 314 , 318 , 323.
See also Iraq
Biden, Joe , 330 , 332 , 335 , 422 n 185
Bin Laden, Osama , 277–79 , 333 , 338
Bismarck, Otto von , 41
Bliss, Tasker , 108 , 385 n 93
Bosnia , 20 , 289 , 292
Bragg, Braxton , 59
Bremer III, L. Paul “Jerry” , 299–303 ,
305 , 419 n 119 , 419 n 122 ,
420–21 n 144
Bridges, George T. M. , 102
British Army
in World War I , 101–2 , 106–10
British Navy , 86–88 , 101 , 137 , 142–143 ,
146 , 149 , 390 n 30
Brooke, Alan , 172–73 , 175 , 189 , 191 ,
400 n 214
Bryan , William Jennings , 88 , 90
Buell, Don Carlos , 45 , 50 , 375 n 42
Bulgaria , 149 , 183
Bundy McGeorge , 208 , 215 , 235
Bunker, Ellsworth , 267
Burleson, Albert S. , 116–17
Burma , 143 , 158–59 , 170 , 179–80 , 186 ,
194
Burma Road , 159
Burnside, Ambrose , 50
Bush Doctrine , 282 , 284
Bush, George H.W. , 8 , 19–20 , 24 , 274 ,
373 n 52