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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 | |