Robert McNamara

"I want Americans to understand why we made the mistakes we did and to learn from them; that is the only way our nation can ever hope to leave the past behind" (McNamara, 1996)

Robert McNamara was the Secretary of Defense for the United States under presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, but he is best known in history for his role as one of the fiercest advocates of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war. This paper is in response to the video, "The Fog of War," in which McNamara discusses a number of issues that he faced during his tenure, and in hindsight he explains very candidly the errors in judgment and in strategy that were made in World War II and in the Vietnam war. This paper critiques his video and uses supplementary resources in the sense of providing perspective on the war the U.S....
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