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COLETA R. McNAMARA Wichita, Kans...
...anyone be sure to what extent the propagandization of statistics has influenced U.S. policymakers. As early as 1962, then Defense Secretary Robert McNamara said: "Every quantitative measurement we have shows we're winning this war." But those quantitative measurements had very likely been hoked up all along the line-from squad level to company to battalion and on up to McNamara's office...
...Proxmire and Fulbright have assaulted obvious flaws in the Pentagon he left behind. Adam Yarmolinsky has demonstrated the problems and agonies his former boss endured. Now come Alain Enthoven and Wayne Smith, far less ambitious and partisan, far more technically expert, too. How Much Is Enough? examines the Robert McNamara Pentagon from the authors' special perch in the Systems Analysis office-one of the former Defense Secretary's showpiece creations. With cool precision, Enthoven and Smith make a strong case for McNamara's approach to his job and present a convincing list of his considerable accomplishments. Perhaps...
...Systems Analysis, Enthoven (Smith served as his aide) was charged with supplying much of the necessary objectivity. With two years at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and economics degrees from Stanford and M.I.T., plus a four-year Rand Corp. stint as background. Enthoven at age 30 became the prototype McNamara Whiz Kid when the new secretary began building S.A. into a powerful administrative tool. Its basic mission: to estimate the required quantity and performance of forces and weapons in relation to their mission and costs...
Inflation and Shortage. Defense contractors see the problem in a different light. Lockheed, for example, blames much of its trouble on former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's Total Package Procurement, under which the company agreed in 1965 to deliver the C-5A four years later at a fixed price. In between came inflation and shortage of parts and machinery during the Viet Nam buildup of the mid-1960s. The result, says a Lockheed spokesman, was "the emergence of catastrophic risk-risk of a magnitude that could bankrupt defense contractors and their subcontractors, and perhaps even threaten the survival...