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List of Illustrations | |
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Preface: The Evolution of an Inquiry | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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�Pearl Harbor� As Code Wars of Choice and Failures of Intelligence | |
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Infamy and the Cracked Mirror of History | |
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�Pearl Harbor� As Code | |
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The Boomerang of �Pearl Harbor� | |
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The Failure of Intelligence | |
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Prelude to Pearl Harbor | |
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Prelude to 9-II | |
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Postmortems: Pearl Harbor | |
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Postmortems: 9-II | |
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The Failure of Imagination | |
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�Little Yellow Sons-of-Bitches� | |
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Rationality, Desperation, and Risk | |
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Aiding and Abetting the Enemy | |
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�This Little Terrorist in Afghanistan� | |
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Innocence, Evil, and Amnesia | |
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Catastrophe and the Transfer of Innocence | |
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Evil and the Transfer of Evil | |
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Amnesia and Frankenstein's Monster | |
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Evil Where the Price Is Worth It | |
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Wars of Choice and Strategic Imbecilities | |
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Pearl Harbor and �Operation Iraqi Freedom� | |
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The Emperor System and Imperial Presidency | |
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Choosing War | |
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Strategic Imbecilities | |
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Deception and Delusion | |
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Victory Disease and the Gates of Hell | |
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�Pearl Harbor� as Godsend | |
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Ground Zero 1945 and Ground Zero 2001 Terror and Mass Destruction | |
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�Hiroshima� as Code | |
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Air War and Terror Bombing in World War II | |
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Ghost Cities | |
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Extirpating �Noncombatants� | |
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�Increasing the Terror� In Germany | |
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Targeting Japan | |
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Firebombing the Great Cities | |
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�Burn Jobs� and �Secondary Targets� | |
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Morale, Shock, and Psychological Warfare | |
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�The Most Terrible Bomb in the History of the World� | |
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Ground Zeroes, 1945 | |
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Anticipating Zero | |
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Becoming Death | |
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Ending the War and Saving American Lives | |
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The Irresistible Logic of Mass Destruction | |
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Brute Force | |
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August 1945 and the Rejected Alternatives | |
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Unconditional Surrender | |
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Power Politics and the Cold War | |
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Partisan Politics | |
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Sweetness, Beauty, and Idealistic Annihilation | |
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Scientific Sweetness and Technological Imperatives | |
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Technocratic Momentum and the War Machine | |
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The Aesthetics of Mass Destruction | |
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Revenge | |
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Idealistic Annihilation | |
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New Evils in the World: 1945/2001 | |
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Evil Beyond Recall | |
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Arrogating God | |
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Holy War Against the West: Seisen and Jihad | |
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Ground Zeroes: State and Nonstate Terror | |
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Managing Savagery | |
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Wars and Occupations Winning the Peace, Losing the Peace | |
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Occupied Japan and Occupied Iraq | |
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Winning the War, Losing the Peace | |
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Occupied Japan and the Eye of the Beholder | |
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Incommensurable Worlds | |
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Planning Postwar Japan | |
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Eyes Wide Shut: Occupying Iraq | |
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Repudiating Nation Building | |
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Baghdad Burning | |
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Convergence of a Sort: Law, Justice, and Transgression | |
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Jiggering the Law | |
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Legal and Illegal Occupation | |
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War Crimes and the Ricochet of Victor's Justice | |
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Spheres of Influence and the Limbo of Defeated Armies | |
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Dissipating Intangible Assets | |
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Nation Building and Market Fundamentalism | |
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Controls and Capitalisms | |
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Corruption and Crime | |
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Successful and Disastrous Demilitarization | |
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�Generalists� Versus �Area Experts� | |
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Privatizing Nation Building | |
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Rendering Iraq �Open For Business� | |
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Aid In Two Eras | |
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Combating Carpetbagging in an Earlier Time | |
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Mixed Legacies in an Age of Forgetting | |
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Epilogue: Fools' Errands and Fools' Gold | |
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Secular Priesthoods and Faith-Based Policies | |
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Fools' Errands | |
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Fools' Gold | |
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Notes | |
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Illustration Credits | |
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Index | |