Word: mcnamara
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...ESSENCE OF SECURITY, by Robert S. McNamara. A wide-ranging collection of speeches and reports by the paragon of the Pentagon, whose concern for the world belies the myth that he is narrow and insensitive. The outstanding omission: discussion of the Viet...
...Essence of Security, McNamara...
...ESSENCE OF SECURITY, by Robert S. McNamara. A wide-ranging collection of speeches and reports by the paragon of the Pentagon, whose concern for the world belies the myth that he is narrow and insensitive. The outstanding omission: discussion of the Viet...
Slightly Shaken. This is not the most engaging book that could have been written by McNamara, who can be a very engaging man. Yet in its very self-effacement-in its responsibility toward issues rather than personalities-the book does give a fair measure of the man. He emerges like a slightly shaken chairman of the board who considers it his duty to share his sense of crisis with the stockholders. "We in government have the obligation to explain our decisions," McNamara concludes, "for we know the consequences if we fail...
...program and the panel with its search for "incapacitating agents" was an important part of Secretary of Defense Robert S. Mcnamara's "flexible defense posture" of the immediate post-Eisenhower-Dulles...