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...equally impractical?absurd, in fact?to envision some other kind of U.S. court staging a neo-Nuremberg war-crimes trial with Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk or Lyndon Johnson in the dock. It is one thing to say that such civilian leaders bear major responsibility for the war and the course it took, but quite another to expect legal judgment on such issues. Beyond that, clearly, none of those men are open to Nuremberg charges of "crimes against peace" and "crimes against humanity." All sought quite the opposite ends in Viet Nam, and intent is crucial in law. All believed that...
That sort of thinking, first made famous by such think-tankers as Robert McNamara, is very much in evidence in the new Governance Committee report, "The Organization and Functions of the Governing Boards and the President's Office...
...persists at that University of articulate students and teachers a band of self-righteous "liberals" who have so little to say and power to say it that they can only cravenly block different views from being heard. I thought that style had gone out with the incident muzzling Secretary McNamara...
...escalation of the war in Vietnam and atrocities committed there are the result of the military trying to understand Robert McNamara's statistics of success," said Ted Ensign, a coordinator of the Citizen's Commission of Inquiry into war crimes in Indochina, last night. "McNamara wanted numbers-numbers of bodies, number of villages captured-so the military invented statistics to satisfy...
Enthoven and McNamara soon ran afoul of service leaders, whose basic idea was "more of everything." How Much Is Enough? offers new evidence, if any were needed, that the military bureaucracy must have strong civilian leadership to prevent waste and duplication, and that competing interests among and within the services tend to stifle innovation. Elements in the Navy, for instance, resisted the Polaris submarine project, fearing that it would divert resources from other Navy programs. In 1961, when imaginative Army thinkers devised the airmobile concept, they got a cool reception from their own superiors until McNamara's office offered...