Word: enthoven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doing anything new -- the difference is that we're doing it," Alain C. Enthoven, Assistant Secretary of Defense, said yesterday of the Pentagon regime of Robert S. McNamara...
...Enthoven, a Ph.D. who joined the Defense Department as a 29-year-old "whiz kid" in 1960, described McNamara's approach to Pentagon planning and management at the Business School's Public Affairs Forum...
Before McNamara, Enthoven said, there was a lack of coordination between the Pentagon's military planners and budget planners. In the past this had led to conflicting points of view between the two groups and prevention of "systematic rational ways of making choices," Enthoven explained...
McNamara reformed this situation with a five-year-plan which Enthoven calls "a powerful tool in integrating all points of view." The program approaches whole areas of defense planning as units, so that within one area a military force requirement automatically becomes a budget requirement...
Everyone involved in the decision process is aware of the objectives, assumptions, and study results of each program. "This is the best protection against error," Enthoven said. "McNamara's emphasis is on what's right, not who's right...