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Operations Center of, 262
and Pakistani EJKs, 9–10
and Pakistani reporters’ killings, 70–71
Raphel and, 145–46
State Department, US (continued)
spending by, 292
Syrian policy and, 161–62
under Tillerson, 257–77
Tillerson’s survey of, 269–71
Trump administration and, xxxi
Trump administration’s firings from, xv–xx
Trump administration’s war on, xx–xxi
Trump funding cuts for, 271–73
unfilled posts at, 274–75, 277–78
vacancies at, xxxii
Wise Men era of, 5–6
in World War II, 4–5
Steiner, Michael, 99–101, 102
Steinmeier, Frank-Walter, 297
Stevenson, Adlai, 246
Stinger missiles, 171
Strauss, Johann, 296
Sudan, 46, 140, 209, 212, 293, 294
Suez Canal, 229
Sullivan, Jake, 93, 94, 110, 120
Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), 230
Supreme Court, Pakistan, 141–42
Supreme Court, US, xxv
Swat valley, 74
Switzerland, 93
Syria, 156, 158–60, 163, 264, 281, 302, 303
US strikes on, 262
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), 159–60
Tahrir Square, Cairo, 225, 229
Taiwan, 291
Takhar province, 200
Takht-Ravanchi, Majid, 300
Talbott, Strobe, 13, 15, 30, 38
Taliban, 8, 28, 29–30, 41–43, 44–45, 65, 66, 67, 79, 99–101, 102, 114, 115, 117, 133, 135, 151, 155, 166, 172–73, 176, 179, 184, 185, 192, 194, 199, 202
approach to Karzai by, 176
Dasht-i-Leili massacre of, 164–202
prisoners held by US, 101
reintegration of low-level, 102–4, 105
resurgence of, 201
talks with, 173–74
UN blacklist of, 106
UN sanctions on, 173
US negotiations with, 99–110
US policy toward, 175–76
US talks with, 120
Tanzania, 208
American embassy bombed in, 210
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 173–74
Team 595, 180
Tehran, 21
terrorism, 34, 35, 42, 163, 209, 219–20, 242, 244, 247–48, 302
Tillerson, Renda, 259
Tillerson, Rex Wayne, xix–xx, 257–60, 262–63, 269, 283
author’s meeting with, 257–59, 265
background of, 259
China policy and, 290–94
formal guidelines for memos under, 263
Haley and, 263–64
inaccessibility of, 261–62
Iran deal and, 279–81
Kushner and, 266–67
on North Korea, 285–86
potential firing rumors about, 263–64, 265–66
press relations of, 260–61
on SRAP, 155
State funding refused by, 272–73
Trump and, 264–65
Time (magazine), 38, 40
Times Square, New York, N.Y., 76
To End a War (Holbrooke), 85, 308–9
Tokyo, donor’s conference in, 88
Torres, Freddy, 237–40
torture, 186
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), 293
Treasury Department, US, 55, 299
Treaty of Alliance, 3
Truman, Harry, 5, 284
Truman Doctrine, 5
Trump, Donald, xiv, xxvi, xxix, 148, 155, 159, 202, 245, 253, 259, 267, 269, 274–75, 289, 296
on Afghanistan, 201
authoritarian strongmen praised by, 157–58
Cuba policy of, 282–83
Iran deal and, 279–81, 296
militarization of diplomacy under, 156–57, 163
North Korea and, 284–90
off-the-cuff remarks of, 283–84
Paris Agreement and, 281–82
Russian contacts of, 142
Sisi admired by, 236
Tillerson and, 264–65
Trump administration, xvii, xxi, xxii, 258, 276, 277, 292–93, 295, 308
Afghanistan review of, 201
ambassadors fired by, xv, xvi–xvii
first budget of, 271
Iran deal and, 302, 305–6
militarization of, 156–57
State Department and, xxxi
Syria policy of, 160–61
transition team of, xiv–xv, xx
waging war on State Department, xx–xxi
Tud-jman, Franjo, 39
Tunisia, 30, 227, 229
Turkey, 93, 158, 159–60, 161
Turkmenistan, 293
12 Strong (film), 197
Twitter, 283, 285, 289
Tyson, David, 177, 179
U-2 spy planes, 16
Uganda, 207, 212, 219
Ukraine, 298
UNHCR, 241
UNICEF, 46
Unión Patriótica, 249
United Arab Emirates, 234
United Nations, 29, 46, 53, 176, 187, 209, 210, 212, 219, 285, 301
agency for Palestinian refugees in, 264, 266
China and, 292
peacekeeping missions of, 271
terrorist blacklist of, 135
United States, international affairs budget of, xxii–xxiii
United States Agency for International Development (USAID), xxii, xxv, 21, 55, 57, 78–79, 80, 91–92, 93, 94, 124, 246, 269, 270, 271
funding for, 79
United States Information Agency, xxii–xxiii
United States Institute of Peace, 150, 271
United States Military Academy, 162
US-Egypt relationship, 228–29
US-Pakistan relationship, 22, 23–26, 28–29, 34, 41–42, 43–44, 70–71, 87–88, 96, 134, 143, 146
and Bin Laden killing, 131–32
blocking of visas in, 76–77
Davis scandal in, 129–30
lack of sincerity in, 75
lies in, 70–73
miscommunication in joint operations, 74–75
presidential visits and, 114–15
transactional nature of, 91
UNRWA, 264, 266
UN Security Council, 173
US Army Special Warfare Center, 245
US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), 295
Uzbek language, 168
V-22 Osprey, 104
Vance, Cyrus, 52
Venezuela, 283–84
Verveer, Melanne, 10
Vienna, 296–97, 301
Vienna Convention, 128
Vietnam, 64, 79, 245
Vietnam War, 5, 6, 13, 15, 17–20, 24, 50, 60, 63, 115, 116, 246
Vogue, xxviii
VX nerve gas, 26
Wall Street Journal, 46, 151
Walt, Lewis, 17–18
war crimes, 185, 271
War Department, US, 56
warlords, 113, 163, 165, 166, 167–68, 173, 178–79, 182–84, 200, 208, 216
Somali, 204, 209–12, 215
Washington Naval Conference, 4
Washington Post, xxviii, 93, 109, 139, 142, 261, 282, 298
Wassom, Herbert M., 25
water policy, 96–98
Wayne, John, 258–59
Waziristan, 76
Webster, William H., 27
Werunga, Simiyu, 216
Western Europe, 5
Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, 242
Westgate shopping mall, Nairobi, 206–7
Westmoreland, General, 18
West Point, 60
Whelan, Theresa, 214
White, Maureen, 124
White, Robert, 245
White Beast, see Hakim, Abdul
White Eyes, see Siad, Yusuf Mohammed
Whitson, Sarah Leah, 233–34
/> WikiLeaks, 130
Wilson, Charlie, 170, 171–72
Winfield, Ala., 192
“Wise Men,” 5–6
Wisner, Frank, 117–18, 230
women, 22, 28, 117, 188–89
women’s rights, 231
Wooburn Green, 204–5
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 60
Woodruff, Judy, 123
Woodward, Bob, 63, 66, 113, 130
World Bank, xx, 4–5, 97
World Children’s Choir, 122
World War II, 4–5
Worthington, Sam, 93
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 39–40
Xi Jinping, 290–91
Yarborough, William, 245
Yemen, 156
youth unrest, 227
Yugoslavia, xxii, 39
Zardari, Asif Ali, 36, 73, 137–38, 140, 141
possible coup against, 138
Zarif, Javad, 297–98, 300
Zayed al Nahyan, Sheikh Mohammed bin, 217
Zia-ul-Haq, Mohammed, 23, 24, 25–26, 33
Zionists, 231
Zorick, Michael, 212
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