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Kat Eschner. November 29, 2016. Robert McNamara meeting with Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House. LBJ Library photo by Yoichi Okamoto. Vietnam was a war the Americans couldn’t win and Robert...
Nov 14, 2018 · During the Vietnam War, Robert McNamara began a program called Project 100,000. The program brought over 300,000 men to Vietnam who failed to meet minimum criteria for military service, both...
According to Hamilton Gregory, author of McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War: McNamara was a lover of technology... McNamara believed he could win the war in Vietnam through the use of advanced technology and computerized analysis...
Nov 28, 2017 · After Kennedy’s assassination in November 1963, he became still more important in the policymaking, leading Senator Wayne Morse, Democrat of Oregon, in April 1964 to call Vietnam “McNamara’s...
Jun 9, 2021 · The revelations in the Pentagon Papers infuriated a country sick of the war, the body bags of young Americans, the photographs of Vietnamese civilians fleeing U.S. air attacks and the endless...
Although he was a prime architect of the Vietnam War and repeatedly overruled the JCS on strategic matters, McNamara gradually became skeptical about whether the war could be won by deploying more troops to South Vietnam and intensifying the bombing of North Vietnam, a claim he published in a book years later.
Jul 6, 2009 · Despite his later-in-life regrets, McNamara was initially a proponent of the U.S. intervention in Vietnam, and in 1964, he pronounced himself pleased to have the Vietnam War tagged as...
