...Micki McElya In Arlington National Cemetery on September 12, 2002, the defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, presided over the burial with full military honors of a single casket containing unidentified remains intended to represent all 184 victims of the 9/11 Pentagon attack, a number...

... the Pentagon Papers] right after the Pans Peace accords, was that Vietnamese were dying at the same rate as before. "Refugee flows'' were being generated, to use the Pentagon's terms, at the same rate as before. The war was continuing, but Kissinger would say "Now that the war is over the time...

...Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie On September 11, 2001, four hijacked commercial aircraft crashed into the World Trade Center (WTC), the Pentagon, and a Pennsylvania field, killing nearly three thousand people and the nineteen hijackers. On July 7, 2005, four bombs exploded on London's public transport...

...Scott Laderman “Tourists in Uniform” examines the conjunction of tourism and American empire-building through the Pocket Guide series of guidebooks published by the US Department of Defense, one of the largest travel publishers of the Cold War era. The Pentagon used these publications to present...

... or so especially dra- matic episodes that would raise red fl ags about the Pentagon’s establishment of a Northern Command for military operations inside the United States. As it hap- pened, however, my hunt for just the right episodes turned up such a surprising...

... but who can barely keep his pants on in private. So familiar has this story become in fact that it might be called-well-proverbial. Not surprisingly, the Pentagon supported Clinton throughout the attack on Iraq. That, as they said, was their duty. But one wonders whether the military’s silence...

.... Unfortunately, the persistent gap between American global in- terests and global power, the Pentagon’s festering crisis of con- fidence, and the dynamics of defense contracting have pressed a different conclusion. Despite tactical and technological fiascoes in Grenada, Libya, and Panama, the Bush...

... are more than welcome to serve in the U.S. military, and many of the early casualties during the invasion of Iraq in March of 2003 were among the some forty thousand noncitizen soldiers who serve in today’s ranks. Latino Youth as the Pentagon’s Target...

... Wiesenthal that he, Reagan, had not just seen the films, but had in fact served as a member of the camera crew that made them. His autobiography, however, has him producing training and other films on Hollywood‘s backlots during the war years. Across the Potomac at the Pentagon, it’s less...

... to go from aligning tactics with strategy to determining strategy itself. The shift from consul- tant-tacticians to manager-strategists is revealed in the history of systems analysis at RAND and the Pentagon. Systems Strategy In the late 1940s, operations research at the RAND Corporation...

... spent more than $27 million on its historian programs, which employed close to 400 people. Needless to say, The BattZe Cry of Freedom doesn't even begin to approach the Pentagon's market share of military history. Blind Eyes and Black Eyes Of course with so much money to spend, it's...

... buildings in the world — symbolic and actual centers of U.S. financial power — and directly hit the Pentagon, the cen- ter of U.S. military power. Thousands were killed or grievously wounded. And in the midst of the massive destruction, there was real heroism — from the passengers of United Airlines...

... of the military-industrial complex. Yet in the face of the antiglobalization and peace move- ments, there are even more strident efforts to bring the Pentagon in line with the required changes for global domination and homeland security. For years the forward...

.... And even the most jaded of viewers would have expected the Pentagon brass to spare a president such explicit knowledge, if only to furnish their commander in chief grounds for “plausible deniability.” But Bush was doing something more than distancing himself from the awk- ward facts of the case...

... these "meddling, uto- pian do-gooders" who would undermine national security, Nixon watched a football game while protesters surrounded the Pentagon. Earlier, Kaiser Wilhelm I1 portrayed European peace enthusiasts as a pack of "scum, rabble, Jews and socialists" (the epithet covered Carnegie...

... the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in April 1995 with the sin- ners, secularists, abortionists, feminists, gays and lesbians, and civil libertarians who caused the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in September 2001? Both were...

... the news media could offer a warring state. But that was before Survivor. According to Felicity Barringer, the Pentagon plans to “promote its war effort through television’s genre of the moment, the reality series.” Over the protests of its news division, whose...

...: the drone of Pentagon spokesmen, the erratic fervor and ex- haustion projected by TV news anchors, the smugness (so far) of American experts, and the muffled, heartening sounds of protest. And beyond and beneath the evasions used to describe the devastation of the air war, the knowledge...

... of another plane strik- ing the Pentagon, I knew it to be a declaration of war. Before arranging for the instal- lation of the Dish Network to allow me to watch the war(s) which would subsequently become more “real,” I try all day and into the night to phone my...

... to the intimate structures new sites of imperial governance. Liberal and critical social scientists are not the only ones calling on history to make their political claims. It was the Pentagon in 2003 that staged a showing of The Battle of Algiers, posing to its attending military officers and civilian...