Word: pentagon
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...legendary quantitative approach to problem-solving was established long before he became the secretary of defense. After studying economics, mathematics, and philosophy at Berkeley, he earned his MBA at Harvard, where he explored systems analysis and the statistical techniques that he would later rely on in restructuring the Pentagon and managing the Vietnam War effort...
...Daniel Ellsberg '52, the government insider who leaked the top-secret Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971 and exposed the knowledge that top officials had believed early on that the Vietnam War could not be won, had mixed feelings about McNamara's career...
...also said that he believed McNamara knew the war was futile early in his Pentagon career, and that McNamara worked diligently inside the government to limit bombings and prevent the conflict from escalating into nuclear war with China...
...Gist: You might think that federal buildings that house the Department of Justice or members of Congress would have decent security. Government facilities, after all, have proved to be tempting targets for both international terrorists (such as those who attacked the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001) and domestic assailants like Timothy McVeigh, who bombed Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995. But security at the government buildings guarded by the Federal Protective Service (FPS) is almost comically inept, according to a disturbing report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Over the past year, undercover investigators visited...
...generations. "I am not sure," McChrystal says, "there are two different people out there with the same reason for the fight." He has to untangle the various threads in this skein and then determine what action - economic development, strong government, death - works best in each case. (Read "Why the Pentagon Axed Its Afghanistan Warlord...