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McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. [4] McNamara was born in San Francisco, California, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Business School. [5]
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara is a 2003 American documentary film about the life and times of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, illustrating his observations of the nature of modern warfare.
Jul 2, 2024 · Robert S. McNamara (born June 9, 1916, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died July 6, 2009, Washington, D.C.) was the U.S. secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 who revamped Pentagon operations and who played a major role in the nation’s military involvement in the Vietnam War.
Jul 7, 2009 · Robert S. McNamara, the forceful and cerebral defense secretary who helped lead the nation into the maelstrom of Vietnam and spent the rest of his life wrestling with the war’s moral ...
Nov 29, 2016 · How Robert McNamara Came to Regret the War He Escalated. The ‘architect of the Vietnam war’ never formally apologized, but struggled with its consequences for the rest of his life
Jun 1, 2021 · In an explosive memoir in the 1990s Robert McNamara started trying to explain the Vietnam War. His publisher explains how it happened
Jul 6, 2009 · Robert McNamara spent the last chapter of his life striving mightily to atone for the sins — his sins — of Vietnam. He cooperated in a 2004 documentary, Fog of War, which laid out his pivotal ...
Robert S. McNamara was perhaps the most influential defense secretary of the 20th century. He helped lead the nation into the maelstrom of Vietnam and spent the rest of his life wrestling...
Jul 7, 2009 · Driven, cerebral and pugnacious, Robert S. McNamara was the preeminent policymaker behind the massive buildup of American forces in Vietnam between 1964 and 1968.
Robert S. McNamara, in turn revered and reviled, may yet be redeemed as an icon of management. His career was a journey toward managerial wisdom and mirrors the very evolution of management as a...
