Sublime

In January 1942, two memoranda arrived on Holcomb’s desk within a week of each other suggesting the creation of Marine Corps commandos. The first was from his superior, Admiral Ernest J. King, the recently appointed Chief of Naval Operations. As enamored with defense as he was with temperance—“When they get in trouble they send for the sons-of-bitc

What Jack Abramoff had discovered in Saipan was the same thing the Bush administration lawyer John Yoo had discovered in Guantánamo Bay: empire is still around, and places with anomalous legal statuses can be extremely useful.

Between 1973 and 1992 alone, audits show that the BIA stole or lost more than $2.4 billion of Indian money—from oil, gas, timber, and grazing leases. And that’s for just nineteen of the roughly 150 years that the BIA has been managing Indian money.

After U.S. marines invaded the country in 1915, they forced the Haitian legislature to select our preferred candidate as president. When Haiti refused to declare war on Germany after the United States did, we dissolved the Haitian legislature. Then the United States supervised a pseudo-referendum to approve a new Haitian constitution, less democrat

suffer pirates and the commerce of the world must cease, which this nation has deservedly so great a share in, and reaps such mighty advantage by.

Lawrence not only helped lead the Arab Revolt but he also reflected on this group of irregular soldiers and their guerrilla campaign.166 Whereas other campaigns, such as those fought by the Irish or Boers, are remembered through a variety of memoirs, government reports, and histories both official and scholarly, Lawrence’s own writings were—and in

Perilous Options: Special Operations as an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy (Vandenbroucke 1993).

patriarchal colonization, in how the sexuality of the indigenous population as a whole—its entire productive and reproductive capacity—commands the attention of the colonial-military state.