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Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 -- July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679767495/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0679767495&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=763809cdcaa8ba220b5e3b32d4c6fefa
He served under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
Following that, he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. McNamara consolidated intelligence and logistics functions of the Pentagon into two centralized agencies: the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Defense Supply Agency.
Prior to public service, McNamara was one of the "Whiz Kids" who helped rebuild Ford Motor Company after World War II, and briefly served as Ford's President before becoming Secretary of Defense. A group of advisors he brought to the Pentagon inherited the "Whiz Kids" moniker.
McNamara is the longest serving Secretary of Defense, amassing 2,595 days between 1961 and 1968.
During President John F. Kennedy's term, while McNamara was Secretary of Defense, America's troops in Vietnam increased from 900 to 16,000 advisers, who were not supposed to engage in combat but rather to train the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. The number of combat advisers in Vietnam when Kennedy died vary depending upon source. The first military adviser deaths in Vietnam occurred in 1957 or 59 under the Eisenhower Administration, which had infiltrated Vietnam, through the efforts of Stanley Sheinbaum, with an unknown number of CIA operatives and other special forces in addition to almost 700 advisers.
The Truman and Eisenhower administrations had committed the United States to support the French and native anti-Communist forces in Vietnam in resisting efforts by the Communists in the North to unify the country, though neither administration established actual combat forces in the war. The U.S. role—initially limited to financial support, military advice and covert intelligence gathering—expanded after 1954 when the French withdrew. During the Kennedy administration, the U.S. military advisory group in South Vietnam steadily increased, with McNamara's concurrence, from 900 to 16,000. U.S. involvement escalated after the Gulf of Tonkin incidents in August 1964, involving an attack on a U.S. Navy destroyer by North Vietnamese naval vessels. McNamara was instrumental in presenting this event to Congress and the public as justification for escalation of the war against the communists. The Vietnam War came to claim most of McNamara's time and energy.
President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes on North Vietnamese naval bases and Congress approved almost unanimously the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing the president "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the U.S. and to prevent further aggression."
In 1965, in response to stepped up military activity by the Viet Cong in South Vietnam and their North Vietnamese allies, the U.S. began bombing North Vietnam, deployed large military forces and entered into combat in South Vietnam. McNamara's plan, supported by requests from top U.S. military commanders in Vietnam, led to the commitment of 485,000 troops by the end of 1967 and almost 535,000 by June 30, 1968. The casualty lists mounted as the number of troops and the intensity of fighting escalated. McNamara put in place a statistical strategy for victory in Vietnam. He concluded that there were a limited number of Viet Cong fighters in Vietnam and that a war of attrition would destroy them. He applied metrics (body counts) to determine how close to success his plan was.
Although he was a prime architect of the Vietnam War and repeatedly overruled the JCS on strategic matters, McNamara gradually became skeptical about whether the war could be won by deploying more troops to South Vietnam and intensifying the bombing of North Vietnam, a claim he would publish in a book years later. He also stated later that his support of the Vietnam War was given out of loyalty to administration policy. He traveled to Vietnam many times to study the situation firsthand and became increasingly reluctant to approve the large force increments requested by the military commanders.
McNamara said that the Domino Theory was the main reason for entering the Vietnam War. In the same interview he stated, "Kennedy hadn't said before he died whether, faced with the loss of Vietnam, he would [completely] withdraw; but I believe today that had he faced that choice, he would have withdrawn."
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US Defense Secretary McNamara addresses a news conference in the United States. United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara addresses a news conference and reports on Vietnam. He points at the bombed out supply routes from the North Vietnam. He shows the Chinese machine gun. He points at the charts showing the air raid damaged bridges. Reporters note down the points. The Defense Secretary states presence of the regular North Vietnamese troops in the South. Location: United States. Date: April 26, 1965.
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After his election in 1960, President-elect John F. Kennedy first offered the post of Secretary of Defense to former secretary Robert A. Lovett; Lovett declined but recommended McNamara. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316782807/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0316782807&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=90bc1ff3e36cb50ebc074d74d70d4a21
Kennedy then sent Sargent Shriver to approach him regarding either the Treasury or the Defense cabinet post less than five weeks after McNamara had become president at Ford. McNamara immediately rejected the Treasury position but eventually accepted Kennedy's invitation to serve as Secretary of Defense.
According to Special Counsel Ted Sorensen, Kennedy regarded McNamara as the "star of his team, calling upon him for advice on a wide range of issues beyond national security, including business and economic matters."[15] McNamara became one of the few members of the Kennedy Administration to work and socialize with Kennedy, and he became so close to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy that he served as a pallbearer at the younger Kennedy's funeral in 1968.[16] McNamara's specialty was to statistically analyze the efficiency of fighting the protracted Vietnam War, including how to maximize the use of defoliants, bombs, and cannon.[17]
Initially, the basic policies outlined by President Kennedy in a message to Congress on March 28, 1961, guided McNamara in the reorientation of the defense program. Kennedy rejected the concept of first-strike attack and emphasized the need for adequate strategic arms and defense to deter nuclear attack on the United States and its allies. U.S. arms, he maintained, must constantly be under civilian command and control, and the nation's defense posture had to be "designed to reduce the danger of irrational or unpremeditated general war". The primary mission of U.S. overseas forces, in cooperation with allies, was "to prevent the steady erosion of the Free World through limited wars". Kennedy and McNamara rejected massive retaliation for a posture of flexible response. The U.S. wanted choices in an emergency other than "inglorious retreat or unlimited retaliation", as the president put it. Out of a major review of the military challenges confronting the U.S. initiated by McNamara in 1961 came a decision to increase the nation's "limited warfare" capabilities. These moves were significant because McNamara was abandoning President Dwight D. Eisenhower's policy of massive retaliation in favor of a flexible response strategy that relied on increased U.S. capacity to conduct limited, non-nuclear warfare.
The Kennedy administration placed particular emphasis on improving ability to counter communist "wars of national liberation", in which the enemy avoided head-on military confrontation and resorted to political subversion and guerrilla tactics. As McNamara said in his 1962 annual report, "The military tactics are those of the sniper, the ambush, and the raid. The political tactics are terror, extortion, and assassination." In practical terms, this meant training and equipping U.S. military personnel, as well as such allies as South Vietnam, for counterinsurgency operations.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, McNamara served as a member of EXCOMM and played a large role in the Administration's handling and eventual defusing of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was a strong proponent of the blockade option over a missile strike and helped persuade the Joint Chiefs of Staff to agree with the blockade option.
Increased attention to conventional strength complemented these special forces preparations. In this instance he called up reserves and also proceeded to expand the regular armed forces. Whereas active duty strength had declined from approximately 3,555,000 to 2,483,000 between 1953 (the end of the Korean War) and 1961, it increased to nearly 2,808,000 by June 30, 1962. Then the forces leveled off at around 2,700,000 until the Vietnam military buildup began in 1965, reaching a peak of nearly 3,550,000 by mid-1968, just after McNamara left office.
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Defence secretary Robert McNamara gives press conference on his acceptance of the post as head of the World Bank.
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An appreciation of Robert McNamara, former United States Secretary of Defense. McNamara died in his sleep at his home in Washington early in the morning on July 6, 2009. He was 93.
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Robert McNamara
Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, during which time he played a major role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Following that, he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. McNamara consolidated intelligence and logistics functions of the Pentagon into two centralized agencies: the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Defense Supply Agency.
Prior to his public service, McNamara was one of the "Whiz Kids" who helped rebuild Ford Motor Company after World War II and briefly served as Ford's President before becoming Secretary of Defense. A group of advisors he brought to the Pentagon inherited the "Whiz Kids" moniker.
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The Vietnam War (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and also known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America (Vietnamese: Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War (1946–54) and was fought between North Vietnam—supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies—and the government of South Vietnam—supported by the United States, Philippines and other anti-communist allies. The Viet Cong (also known as the National Liberation Front, or NLF), a South Vietnamese communist common front aided by the North, fought a guerrilla war against anti-communist forces in the region. The People's Army of Vietnam, also known as the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), engaged in a more conventional war, at times committing large units to battle.
As the war continued, the part of the Viet Cong in the fighting decreased as the role of the NVA grew. U.S. and South Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operations, involving ground forces, artillery, and airstrikes. In the course of the war, the U.S. conducted a large-scale strategic bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
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Prior to the 20th century, there were in most countries separate ministerial posts for the land forces (often called "minister for war" etc.) and the naval forces. Since the end of World War II, the title has changed from war to defence, and has often involved putting a single defence minister in charge of all the armed forces. Another common reform which occurred at the end of World War II was to place the defence minister in a national security council, war cabinet, or a "Kitchen Cabinet", which allows the head of government or head of state to coordinate military, diplomatic and economic activities.
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The United States of America (USA), commonly referred to as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major territories and various possessions. The 48 contiguous states and Washington, D.C., are in central North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwestern part of North America and the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. At 3.8 million square miles (9.842 million km2) and with over 320 million people, the country is the world's third or fourth-largest by total area and the third most populous. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The geography and climate of the United States are also extremely diverse, and the country is home to a wide variety of wildlife.
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1:58:27Why Was the Vietnam War Fought? Robert McNamara on Lessons Learned, Mistakes (1995)
Why Was the Vietnam War Fought? Robert McNamara on Lessons Learned, Mistakes (1995)Why Was the Vietnam War Fought? Robert McNamara on Lessons Learned, Mistakes (1995)
Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 -- July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679767495/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0679767495&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=763809cdcaa8ba220b5e3b32d4c6fefa He served under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Following that, he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. McNamara consolidated intelligence and logistics functions of the Pentagon into two centralized agencies: the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Defense Supply Agency. Prior to public service, McNamara was one of the "Whiz Kids" who helped rebuild Ford Motor Company after World War II, and briefly served as Ford's President before becoming Secretary of Defense. A group of advisors he brought to the Pentagon inherited the "Whiz Kids" moniker. McNamara is the longest serving Secretary of Defense, amassing 2,595 days between 1961 and 1968. During President John F. Kennedy's term, while McNamara was Secretary of Defense, America's troops in Vietnam increased from 900 to 16,000 advisers, who were not supposed to engage in combat but rather to train the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. The number of combat advisers in Vietnam when Kennedy died vary depending upon source. The first military adviser deaths in Vietnam occurred in 1957 or 59 under the Eisenhower Administration, which had infiltrated Vietnam, through the efforts of Stanley Sheinbaum, with an unknown number of CIA operatives and other special forces in addition to almost 700 advisers. The Truman and Eisenhower administrations had committed the United States to support the French and native anti-Communist forces in Vietnam in resisting efforts by the Communists in the North to unify the country, though neither administration established actual combat forces in the war. The U.S. role—initially limited to financial support, military advice and covert intelligence gathering—expanded after 1954 when the French withdrew. During the Kennedy administration, the U.S. military advisory group in South Vietnam steadily increased, with McNamara's concurrence, from 900 to 16,000. U.S. involvement escalated after the Gulf of Tonkin incidents in August 1964, involving an attack on a U.S. Navy destroyer by North Vietnamese naval vessels. McNamara was instrumental in presenting this event to Congress and the public as justification for escalation of the war against the communists. The Vietnam War came to claim most of McNamara's time and energy. President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes on North Vietnamese naval bases and Congress approved almost unanimously the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing the president "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the U.S. and to prevent further aggression." In 1965, in response to stepped up military activity by the Viet Cong in South Vietnam and their North Vietnamese allies, the U.S. began bombing North Vietnam, deployed large military forces and entered into combat in South Vietnam. McNamara's plan, supported by requests from top U.S. military commanders in Vietnam, led to the commitment of 485,000 troops by the end of 1967 and almost 535,000 by June 30, 1968. The casualty lists mounted as the number of troops and the intensity of fighting escalated. McNamara put in place a statistical strategy for victory in Vietnam. He concluded that there were a limited number of Viet Cong fighters in Vietnam and that a war of attrition would destroy them. He applied metrics (body counts) to determine how close to success his plan was. Although he was a prime architect of the Vietnam War and repeatedly overruled the JCS on strategic matters, McNamara gradually became skeptical about whether the war could be won by deploying more troops to South Vietnam and intensifying the bombing of North Vietnam, a claim he would publish in a book years later. He also stated later that his support of the Vietnam War was given out of loyalty to administration policy. He traveled to Vietnam many times to study the situation firsthand and became increasingly reluctant to approve the large force increments requested by the military commanders. McNamara said that the Domino Theory was the main reason for entering the Vietnam War. In the same interview he stated, "Kennedy hadn't said before he died whether, faced with the loss of Vietnam, he would [completely] withdraw; but I believe today that had he faced that choice, he would have withdrawn." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_mcnamara -
1:23:01The Fog of War Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S McNamara full movie
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9:29Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S McNamara (9 episode)
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1:58US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara addresses a news conference and reports on V...HD Stock Footage
US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara addresses a news conference and reports on V...HD Stock FootageUS Defense Secretary Robert McNamara addresses a news conference and reports on V...HD Stock Footage
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56:41The Life and Times of Robert McNamara: Biography, Secretary of Defense, Vietnam War (1993)
The Life and Times of Robert McNamara: Biography, Secretary of Defense, Vietnam War (1993)The Life and Times of Robert McNamara: Biography, Secretary of Defense, Vietnam War (1993)
After his election in 1960, President-elect John F. Kennedy first offered the post of Secretary of Defense to former secretary Robert A. Lovett; Lovett declined but recommended McNamara. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316782807/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0316782807&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=90bc1ff3e36cb50ebc074d74d70d4a21 Kennedy then sent Sargent Shriver to approach him regarding either the Treasury or the Defense cabinet post less than five weeks after McNamara had become president at Ford. McNamara immediately rejected the Treasury position but eventually accepted Kennedy's invitation to serve as Secretary of Defense. According to Special Counsel Ted Sorensen, Kennedy regarded McNamara as the "star of his team, calling upon him for advice on a wide range of issues beyond national security, including business and economic matters."[15] McNamara became one of the few members of the Kennedy Administration to work and socialize with Kennedy, and he became so close to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy that he served as a pallbearer at the younger Kennedy's funeral in 1968.[16] McNamara's specialty was to statistically analyze the efficiency of fighting the protracted Vietnam War, including how to maximize the use of defoliants, bombs, and cannon.[17] Initially, the basic policies outlined by President Kennedy in a message to Congress on March 28, 1961, guided McNamara in the reorientation of the defense program. Kennedy rejected the concept of first-strike attack and emphasized the need for adequate strategic arms and defense to deter nuclear attack on the United States and its allies. U.S. arms, he maintained, must constantly be under civilian command and control, and the nation's defense posture had to be "designed to reduce the danger of irrational or unpremeditated general war". The primary mission of U.S. overseas forces, in cooperation with allies, was "to prevent the steady erosion of the Free World through limited wars". Kennedy and McNamara rejected massive retaliation for a posture of flexible response. The U.S. wanted choices in an emergency other than "inglorious retreat or unlimited retaliation", as the president put it. Out of a major review of the military challenges confronting the U.S. initiated by McNamara in 1961 came a decision to increase the nation's "limited warfare" capabilities. These moves were significant because McNamara was abandoning President Dwight D. Eisenhower's policy of massive retaliation in favor of a flexible response strategy that relied on increased U.S. capacity to conduct limited, non-nuclear warfare. The Kennedy administration placed particular emphasis on improving ability to counter communist "wars of national liberation", in which the enemy avoided head-on military confrontation and resorted to political subversion and guerrilla tactics. As McNamara said in his 1962 annual report, "The military tactics are those of the sniper, the ambush, and the raid. The political tactics are terror, extortion, and assassination." In practical terms, this meant training and equipping U.S. military personnel, as well as such allies as South Vietnam, for counterinsurgency operations. During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, McNamara served as a member of EXCOMM and played a large role in the Administration's handling and eventual defusing of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was a strong proponent of the blockade option over a missile strike and helped persuade the Joint Chiefs of Staff to agree with the blockade option. Increased attention to conventional strength complemented these special forces preparations. In this instance he called up reserves and also proceeded to expand the regular armed forces. Whereas active duty strength had declined from approximately 3,555,000 to 2,483,000 between 1953 (the end of the Korean War) and 1961, it increased to nearly 2,808,000 by June 30, 1962. Then the forces leveled off at around 2,700,000 until the Vietnam military buildup began in 1965, reaching a peak of nearly 3,550,000 by mid-1968, just after McNamara left office. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_mcnamara -
3:34Robert McNamara admits Vietnam War a mistake..flv
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21:11Hardtalk - Robert McNamara (BBC 1998)
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2:47SYND 30/11/67 ROBERT MCNAMARA RESIGNS AS DEFENCE SECRETARY
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𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐒 𝐌𝐜𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐒 𝐌𝐜𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞
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An Appreciation of Robert McNamara | Charlie RoseAn Appreciation of Robert McNamara | Charlie Rose
An appreciation of Robert McNamara, former United States Secretary of Defense. McNamara died in his sleep at his home in Washington early in the morning on July 6, 2009. He was 93. SUBSCRIBE to get the latest from Charlie Rose: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseSUBSCRIBE Connect with Charlie Rose Online: Visit the Charlie Rose WEBSITE: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseDotCom Like Charlie Rose on FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseFacebook Follow Charlie Rose on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseTwitter Follow Charlie Rose on INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseInstagram About Charlie Rose: Emmy award winning journalist Charlie Rose has been praised as "one of America's premier interviewers." He is the host of Charlie Rose, the nightly PBS program that engages America's best thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, business leaders, scientists and other newsmakers. USA Today calls Charlie Rose, "TV's most addictive talk show." New York Newsday says, "Charlie's show is the place to get engaging, literate conversation... Bluntly, he is the best interviewer around today." An Appreciation of Robert McNamara | Charlie Rose http://www.youtube.com/user/CharlieRose
'Robert Mcnamara' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Grace of Monaco (2014)
Actors: André Penvern (actor), Yvonne Gradelet (actress), Milo Ventimiglia (actor), Tim Roth (actor), Robert Lindsay (actor), Derek Jacobi (actor), Olivier Rabourdin (actor), Jean Dell (actor), Frank Langella (actor), Yves Jacques (actor), Nicholas Farrell (actor), Roger Ashton-Griffiths (actor), Jeanne Balibar (actress), Parker Posey (actress), Nicole Kidman (actress),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Fog of Love (2009)
Actors: Rob Baniewicz (actor), Rob Baniewicz (producer), Rob Baniewicz (writer), Rob Baniewicz (director), Meg Favreau (writer),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis (2001)
Actors: Robert F. Kennedy (actor), Joseph P. Kennedy (actor), Lyndon Johnson (actor), Bruce Campbell (actor), John F. Kennedy (actor), Michael Fairman (actor), Adolf Hitler (actor), Winston Churchill (actor), Kevin Conway (actor), Kevin Costner (actor), Len Cariou (actor), Dylan Baker (actor), Fidel Castro (actor), Dwight D. Eisenhower (actor), Nikita Khrushchev (actor),
Plot: This is a documentary about the historical context of the Cuban Missile Crisis, that is available on the DVD for the film, _Thirteen Days (2000)_ (qv). Using archival footage and new interviews with a wide range of experts, Director/Producer, 'Alita Holly' (qv) explores the events that lead up to the crisis, as well as the people involved.
Keywords: american-history, american-politics, cold-war, crisis, cuban-history, cuban-missile-crisis, danger, military, nervousness, nuclearGenres: Documentary, History,
Thirteen Days (2000)
Actors: Allan Graf (actor), Craig Hosking (actor), Walter Cronkite (actor), Michael Fairman (actor), Phil Hawn (actor), Bruce Greenwood (actor), Cliff Fleming (actor), Len Cariou (actor), Elya Baskin (actor), Tom Everett (actor), Kevin Conway (actor), Dylan Baker (actor), Kevin Costner (actor), James Karen (actor), Rick Kain (actor),
Plot: In October, 1962, U-2 surveillance photos reveal that the Soviet Union is in the process of placing nuclear weapons in Cuba. These weapons have the capability of wiping out most of the Eastern and Southern United States in minutes if they become operational. President John F. Kennedy and his advisors must come up with a plan of action against the Soviets. Kennedy is determined to show that he is strong enough to stand up to the threat, and the Pentagon advises U.S. military strikes against Cuba--which could lead the way to another U.S. invasion of the island. However, Kennedy is reluctant to follow through, because a U.S. invasion could cause the Soviets to retaliate in Europe. A nuclear showdown appears to be almost inevitable. Can it be prevented?
Keywords: 1960s, a-shot-across-the-bow, air-force-jet, airforce-one, aviation, based-on-book, blockade, box-office-flop, cold-war, cubaGenres: Drama, History, Thriller,
Taglines: You'll Never Believe How Close We Came
Quotes:
Robert McNamara: We'd look pretty bad shooting up a freighter full of baby food.Kenny O'Donnell: The sun came up. Every day the sun comes up says something about us.
Kenny O'Donnell: If the sun comes up tomorrow, it is only because of men of good will. And that's - that's all there is between us and the devil.
Robert McNamara: This is not a blockade. This is language. A new vocabulary, the likes of which the world has never seen! This is President Kennedy communicating with Secretary Khrushchev!
Kenny O'Donnell: Adlai! It's Ken; how you doin'?::Adlai Stevenson: Busy, Ken. What do you need?::Kenny O'Donnell: The president told me to pass the word to you: Stick it to them!::Adlai Stevenson: I hear you. I'm glad it's you calling; I thought it would be Bobby.::Kenny O'Donnell: Adlai, the world has to know we're right. If we're gonna have a chance at a political solution we need international pressure... You gotta be tough, Adlai. You need to find it, buddy.::Adlai Stevenson: If they're still sticking to their stonewalling stategy, I'll get them. I'm an old political cat, Kenny, but I've got one life left.::Kenny O'Donnell: I know you do.
[about the Joint Chiefs of Staff]::Kenny O'Donnell: They want a war, Jack, and they're arranging things to get one.
General Curtis LeMay: Those goddamn Kennedys are gonna destroy this country if we don't do something about this!
President Kennedy: [slams fist] *I* have the authority! I am the commander in chief of the United States, and I say when we go to war!
Adlai Stevenson: [asking the Russian ambassador if there are any Soviet missile bases in Cuba] Sir, I am prepared to wait for your answer till Hell freezes over, if that's your decision.
Robert Kennedy: We gave up so much to get here... I don't know; sometimes I think, "What the hell did we do it for?"::Kenny O'Donnell: Well, I don't know about you, but... I'm in it for the money.
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (2000)
Actors: Ronald Reagan (actor), Marcel Sabourin (actor), Bill Lake (actor), Elvis Presley (actor), Andrew McCarthy (actor), Tim Matheson (actor), Philip Baker Hall (actor), Lyndon Johnson (actor), Jason Cavalier (actor), Richard Nixon (actor), Frank Fontaine (actor), Alan Fawcett (actor), Adrian Hough (actor), Frank Sinatra (actor), Chuck Shamata (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Taglines: She was the 20th century's First Lady. Now see her for the woman she really was.
Robert Kennedy & His Times (1985)
Actors: Brent Spiner (actor), G.D. Spradlin (actor), Maurice Marsac (actor), Matthew Faison (actor), George Grizzard (actor), Mitch Ryan (actor), Joe Pantoliano (actor), Bruce French (actor), Pat Corley (actor), Jason Bateman (actor), Ned Beatty (actor), Walter Gotell (actor), Cliff De Young (actor), Jack Warden (actor), Jeffrey Tambor (actor),
Plot: A personal portrait of one of the most controversial men of this century and the turbulent times in which he lived. An entire era, including the fight for civil rights, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the American entry into Vietnam, and the eventual protest against it, was shaped by Bobby Kennedy.
Keywords: american-president, based-on-book, campaign, fbi-chief, kennedy-family, political-primary, president, tv-mini-series, u.s.-presidentGenres: Drama,
Kennedy (1983)
Actors: Richard Hartley (composer), John Glover (actor), Frances Conroy (actress), Alan Landsburg (producer), Geraldine Fitzgerald (actress), Tim Monich (miscellaneous crew), Barton Heyman (actor), E.G. Marshall (actor), Rick Warner (actor), Tom Wright (actor), Kelsey Grammer (actor), John Shea (actor), Margaret Matheson (producer), Ralph Sheldon (editor), Kevin Conroy (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, History,Die Kuba-Krise 1962 (1969)
Actors: Hans Paetsch (actor), Dirk Dautzenberg (actor), Herbert Tiede (actor), Helmut Förnbacher (actor), Ernst Fritz Fürbringer (actor), Konrad Georg (actor), Erik Schumann (actor), Werner Kreindl (actor), Hellmut Lange (actor), Robert Meyn (actor), Günther Neutze (actor), Hans Schellbach (actor), Hanns Ernst Jäger (actor), Hans Daniel (actor), Rudolf Nussgruber (director),
Genres: Drama,McNamara, Robert Filmography
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2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2011, role: actor , character name: Himself - US Secretary of Defense 1961-1968
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2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2010, role: actor , character name: Himself - United States Secretary of Defense
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2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - U.S. secretary of defense
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2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2004, role: actor , character name: Himself - Secretary of Defense - Kennedy and Johnson administrations
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2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1997, role: actor , character name: Himself - US Secretary of Defense
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1995, role: actor , character name: Himself - Pallbearer for RFK
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1995, role: actor , character name: Himself - Laughing
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1991, role: actor , character name: Himself - in Vietnam
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1988, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1988, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1979, role: actor , character name: Himself - Speech on Hanoi Bombing
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1973, role: actor , character name: Himself - Listens to Test Ban Speech
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1969, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1968, role: actor , character name: Himself - Secretary of Defense, on Tonkin Gulf Incident
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1967, role: actor , character name: Himself - 1960-1968 Secretary of Defense
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1965, role: actor , character name: Himself - with Maxwell Taylor
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1965, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1964, role: actor , character name: Himself
McNamara, Robert Filmography
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2000, role: miscellaneous crew
McNamara, Robert Filmography
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2003, role: miscellaneous crew
Famous quotes by Robert McNamara:
"The obvious conflict is the interest of the business over the interest of the patient. A doctor should not be owned by a corporation that can dictate the standards by which he practices. He is making decisions about your health and needs free rein to make the best choices for you."
"It was a great time for the whole family."
"We bought products off a man who was licensed to sell them. They're telling me that there were certain products he wasn't able to sell. I only bought products that were advertised for sale to everybody."
"Before any substantial commitment to defend India against China is given, we should recognize that in order to carry out that commitment against any substantial Chinese attack we would have to use nuclear weapons."
"She was one of the greatest citizens of our country of the past half-century."
"One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action."
"It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives."
"Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme."
"Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him."
"We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?"
"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage."
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Why Was the Vietnam War Fought? Robert McNamara on Lessons Learned, Mistakes (1995)
Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 -- July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679767495/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0679767495&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=763809cdcaa8ba220b5e3b32d4c6fefa He served under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Following that, he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. McNamara consolidated intelligence and logistics function...
published: 03 May 2014 -
The Fog of War Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S McNamara full movie
published: 04 Mar 2017 -
Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S McNamara (9 episode)
Part of the documentall film about Mc'Namara. Vietnam - meeting wiht oppsing force in '95, and in it's part Vietnam PM says to McNamara about why Vietnam-people figth against american armed citizens "It's war for independent...".
published: 12 Feb 2010 -
US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara addresses a news conference and reports on V...HD Stock Footage
Link to order this clip: http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675073012_Robert-McNamara_Defense-Secretary_news-conference_damaged-bridges_Chinese-machine-gun Historic Stock Footage Archival and Vintage Video Clips in HD. US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara addresses a news conference and reports on Vietnam in the United States. US Defense Secretary McNamara addresses a news conference in the United States. United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara addresses a news conference and reports on Vietnam. He points at the bombed out supply routes from the North Vietnam. He shows the Chinese machine gun. He points at the charts showing the air raid damaged bridges. Reporters note down the points. The Defense Secretary states presence of the regular North Vietnamese troops in the South. ...
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The Life and Times of Robert McNamara: Biography, Secretary of Defense, Vietnam War (1993)
After his election in 1960, President-elect John F. Kennedy first offered the post of Secretary of Defense to former secretary Robert A. Lovett; Lovett declined but recommended McNamara. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316782807/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0316782807&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=90bc1ff3e36cb50ebc074d74d70d4a21 Kennedy then sent Sargent Shriver to approach him regarding either the Treasury or the Defense cabinet post less than five weeks after McNamara had become president at Ford. McNamara immediately rejected the Treasury position but eventually accepted Kennedy's invitation to serve as Secretary of Defense. According to Special Counsel Ted Sorensen, Kennedy regarded McNamara as the "star of his team, calling upon h...
published: 15 May 2014 -
Robert McNamara admits Vietnam War a mistake..flv
published: 13 Mar 2011 -
Hardtalk - Robert McNamara (BBC 1998)
published: 21 Dec 2012 -
SYND 30/11/67 ROBERT MCNAMARA RESIGNS AS DEFENCE SECRETARY
Defence secretary Robert McNamara gives press conference on his acceptance of the post as head of the World Bank. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/d701a8fe144bd3a17eefebc11cbfb4f0 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
published: 24 Jul 2015 -
𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐒 𝐌𝐜𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞
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An Appreciation of Robert McNamara | Charlie Rose
An appreciation of Robert McNamara, former United States Secretary of Defense. McNamara died in his sleep at his home in Washington early in the morning on July 6, 2009. He was 93. SUBSCRIBE to get the latest from Charlie Rose: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseSUBSCRIBE Connect with Charlie Rose Online: Visit the Charlie Rose WEBSITE: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseDotCom Like Charlie Rose on FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseFacebook Follow Charlie Rose on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseTwitter Follow Charlie Rose on INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseInstagram About Charlie Rose: Emmy award winning journalist Charlie Rose has been praised as "one of America's premier interviewers." He is the host of Charlie Rose, the nightly PBS program that engages America's best thinkers, writers, politici...
published: 10 Jul 2009
Why Was the Vietnam War Fought? Robert McNamara on Lessons Learned, Mistakes (1995)
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Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 -- July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense. About the book: https://www.amazo...
Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 -- July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679767495/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0679767495&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=763809cdcaa8ba220b5e3b32d4c6fefa
He served under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
Following that, he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. McNamara consolidated intelligence and logistics functions of the Pentagon into two centralized agencies: the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Defense Supply Agency.
Prior to public service, McNamara was one of the "Whiz Kids" who helped rebuild Ford Motor Company after World War II, and briefly served as Ford's President before becoming Secretary of Defense. A group of advisors he brought to the Pentagon inherited the "Whiz Kids" moniker.
McNamara is the longest serving Secretary of Defense, amassing 2,595 days between 1961 and 1968.
During President John F. Kennedy's term, while McNamara was Secretary of Defense, America's troops in Vietnam increased from 900 to 16,000 advisers, who were not supposed to engage in combat but rather to train the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. The number of combat advisers in Vietnam when Kennedy died vary depending upon source. The first military adviser deaths in Vietnam occurred in 1957 or 59 under the Eisenhower Administration, which had infiltrated Vietnam, through the efforts of Stanley Sheinbaum, with an unknown number of CIA operatives and other special forces in addition to almost 700 advisers.
The Truman and Eisenhower administrations had committed the United States to support the French and native anti-Communist forces in Vietnam in resisting efforts by the Communists in the North to unify the country, though neither administration established actual combat forces in the war. The U.S. role—initially limited to financial support, military advice and covert intelligence gathering—expanded after 1954 when the French withdrew. During the Kennedy administration, the U.S. military advisory group in South Vietnam steadily increased, with McNamara's concurrence, from 900 to 16,000. U.S. involvement escalated after the Gulf of Tonkin incidents in August 1964, involving an attack on a U.S. Navy destroyer by North Vietnamese naval vessels. McNamara was instrumental in presenting this event to Congress and the public as justification for escalation of the war against the communists. The Vietnam War came to claim most of McNamara's time and energy.
President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes on North Vietnamese naval bases and Congress approved almost unanimously the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing the president "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the U.S. and to prevent further aggression."
In 1965, in response to stepped up military activity by the Viet Cong in South Vietnam and their North Vietnamese allies, the U.S. began bombing North Vietnam, deployed large military forces and entered into combat in South Vietnam. McNamara's plan, supported by requests from top U.S. military commanders in Vietnam, led to the commitment of 485,000 troops by the end of 1967 and almost 535,000 by June 30, 1968. The casualty lists mounted as the number of troops and the intensity of fighting escalated. McNamara put in place a statistical strategy for victory in Vietnam. He concluded that there were a limited number of Viet Cong fighters in Vietnam and that a war of attrition would destroy them. He applied metrics (body counts) to determine how close to success his plan was.
Although he was a prime architect of the Vietnam War and repeatedly overruled the JCS on strategic matters, McNamara gradually became skeptical about whether the war could be won by deploying more troops to South Vietnam and intensifying the bombing of North Vietnam, a claim he would publish in a book years later. He also stated later that his support of the Vietnam War was given out of loyalty to administration policy. He traveled to Vietnam many times to study the situation firsthand and became increasingly reluctant to approve the large force increments requested by the military commanders.
McNamara said that the Domino Theory was the main reason for entering the Vietnam War. In the same interview he stated, "Kennedy hadn't said before he died whether, faced with the loss of Vietnam, he would [completely] withdraw; but I believe today that had he faced that choice, he would have withdrawn."
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Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 -- July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679767495/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0679767495&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=763809cdcaa8ba220b5e3b32d4c6fefa
He served under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
Following that, he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. McNamara consolidated intelligence and logistics functions of the Pentagon into two centralized agencies: the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Defense Supply Agency.
Prior to public service, McNamara was one of the "Whiz Kids" who helped rebuild Ford Motor Company after World War II, and briefly served as Ford's President before becoming Secretary of Defense. A group of advisors he brought to the Pentagon inherited the "Whiz Kids" moniker.
McNamara is the longest serving Secretary of Defense, amassing 2,595 days between 1961 and 1968.
During President John F. Kennedy's term, while McNamara was Secretary of Defense, America's troops in Vietnam increased from 900 to 16,000 advisers, who were not supposed to engage in combat but rather to train the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. The number of combat advisers in Vietnam when Kennedy died vary depending upon source. The first military adviser deaths in Vietnam occurred in 1957 or 59 under the Eisenhower Administration, which had infiltrated Vietnam, through the efforts of Stanley Sheinbaum, with an unknown number of CIA operatives and other special forces in addition to almost 700 advisers.
The Truman and Eisenhower administrations had committed the United States to support the French and native anti-Communist forces in Vietnam in resisting efforts by the Communists in the North to unify the country, though neither administration established actual combat forces in the war. The U.S. role—initially limited to financial support, military advice and covert intelligence gathering—expanded after 1954 when the French withdrew. During the Kennedy administration, the U.S. military advisory group in South Vietnam steadily increased, with McNamara's concurrence, from 900 to 16,000. U.S. involvement escalated after the Gulf of Tonkin incidents in August 1964, involving an attack on a U.S. Navy destroyer by North Vietnamese naval vessels. McNamara was instrumental in presenting this event to Congress and the public as justification for escalation of the war against the communists. The Vietnam War came to claim most of McNamara's time and energy.
President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes on North Vietnamese naval bases and Congress approved almost unanimously the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing the president "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the U.S. and to prevent further aggression."
In 1965, in response to stepped up military activity by the Viet Cong in South Vietnam and their North Vietnamese allies, the U.S. began bombing North Vietnam, deployed large military forces and entered into combat in South Vietnam. McNamara's plan, supported by requests from top U.S. military commanders in Vietnam, led to the commitment of 485,000 troops by the end of 1967 and almost 535,000 by June 30, 1968. The casualty lists mounted as the number of troops and the intensity of fighting escalated. McNamara put in place a statistical strategy for victory in Vietnam. He concluded that there were a limited number of Viet Cong fighters in Vietnam and that a war of attrition would destroy them. He applied metrics (body counts) to determine how close to success his plan was.
Although he was a prime architect of the Vietnam War and repeatedly overruled the JCS on strategic matters, McNamara gradually became skeptical about whether the war could be won by deploying more troops to South Vietnam and intensifying the bombing of North Vietnam, a claim he would publish in a book years later. He also stated later that his support of the Vietnam War was given out of loyalty to administration policy. He traveled to Vietnam many times to study the situation firsthand and became increasingly reluctant to approve the large force increments requested by the military commanders.
McNamara said that the Domino Theory was the main reason for entering the Vietnam War. In the same interview he stated, "Kennedy hadn't said before he died whether, faced with the loss of Vietnam, he would [completely] withdraw; but I believe today that had he faced that choice, he would have withdrawn."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_mcnamara
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The Fog of War Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S McNamara full movie
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Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S McNamara (9 episode)
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Part of the documentall film about Mc'Namara. Vietnam - meeting wiht oppsing force in '95, and in it's part Vietnam PM says to McNamara about why Vietnam-people...
Part of the documentall film about Mc'Namara. Vietnam - meeting wiht oppsing force in '95, and in it's part Vietnam PM says to McNamara about why Vietnam-people figth against american armed citizens "It's war for independent...".
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US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara addresses a news conference and reports on V...HD Stock Footage
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The Life and Times of Robert McNamara: Biography, Secretary of Defense, Vietnam War (1993)
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After his election in 1960, President-elect John F. Kennedy first offered the post of Secretary of Defense to former secretary Robert A. Lovett; Lovett declined...
After his election in 1960, President-elect John F. Kennedy first offered the post of Secretary of Defense to former secretary Robert A. Lovett; Lovett declined but recommended McNamara. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316782807/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0316782807&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=90bc1ff3e36cb50ebc074d74d70d4a21
Kennedy then sent Sargent Shriver to approach him regarding either the Treasury or the Defense cabinet post less than five weeks after McNamara had become president at Ford. McNamara immediately rejected the Treasury position but eventually accepted Kennedy's invitation to serve as Secretary of Defense.
According to Special Counsel Ted Sorensen, Kennedy regarded McNamara as the "star of his team, calling upon him for advice on a wide range of issues beyond national security, including business and economic matters."[15] McNamara became one of the few members of the Kennedy Administration to work and socialize with Kennedy, and he became so close to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy that he served as a pallbearer at the younger Kennedy's funeral in 1968.[16] McNamara's specialty was to statistically analyze the efficiency of fighting the protracted Vietnam War, including how to maximize the use of defoliants, bombs, and cannon.[17]
Initially, the basic policies outlined by President Kennedy in a message to Congress on March 28, 1961, guided McNamara in the reorientation of the defense program. Kennedy rejected the concept of first-strike attack and emphasized the need for adequate strategic arms and defense to deter nuclear attack on the United States and its allies. U.S. arms, he maintained, must constantly be under civilian command and control, and the nation's defense posture had to be "designed to reduce the danger of irrational or unpremeditated general war". The primary mission of U.S. overseas forces, in cooperation with allies, was "to prevent the steady erosion of the Free World through limited wars". Kennedy and McNamara rejected massive retaliation for a posture of flexible response. The U.S. wanted choices in an emergency other than "inglorious retreat or unlimited retaliation", as the president put it. Out of a major review of the military challenges confronting the U.S. initiated by McNamara in 1961 came a decision to increase the nation's "limited warfare" capabilities. These moves were significant because McNamara was abandoning President Dwight D. Eisenhower's policy of massive retaliation in favor of a flexible response strategy that relied on increased U.S. capacity to conduct limited, non-nuclear warfare.
The Kennedy administration placed particular emphasis on improving ability to counter communist "wars of national liberation", in which the enemy avoided head-on military confrontation and resorted to political subversion and guerrilla tactics. As McNamara said in his 1962 annual report, "The military tactics are those of the sniper, the ambush, and the raid. The political tactics are terror, extortion, and assassination." In practical terms, this meant training and equipping U.S. military personnel, as well as such allies as South Vietnam, for counterinsurgency operations.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, McNamara served as a member of EXCOMM and played a large role in the Administration's handling and eventual defusing of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was a strong proponent of the blockade option over a missile strike and helped persuade the Joint Chiefs of Staff to agree with the blockade option.
Increased attention to conventional strength complemented these special forces preparations. In this instance he called up reserves and also proceeded to expand the regular armed forces. Whereas active duty strength had declined from approximately 3,555,000 to 2,483,000 between 1953 (the end of the Korean War) and 1961, it increased to nearly 2,808,000 by June 30, 1962. Then the forces leveled off at around 2,700,000 until the Vietnam military buildup began in 1965, reaching a peak of nearly 3,550,000 by mid-1968, just after McNamara left office.
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After his election in 1960, President-elect John F. Kennedy first offered the post of Secretary of Defense to former secretary Robert A. Lovett; Lovett declined but recommended McNamara. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316782807/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0316782807&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=90bc1ff3e36cb50ebc074d74d70d4a21
Kennedy then sent Sargent Shriver to approach him regarding either the Treasury or the Defense cabinet post less than five weeks after McNamara had become president at Ford. McNamara immediately rejected the Treasury position but eventually accepted Kennedy's invitation to serve as Secretary of Defense.
According to Special Counsel Ted Sorensen, Kennedy regarded McNamara as the "star of his team, calling upon him for advice on a wide range of issues beyond national security, including business and economic matters."[15] McNamara became one of the few members of the Kennedy Administration to work and socialize with Kennedy, and he became so close to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy that he served as a pallbearer at the younger Kennedy's funeral in 1968.[16] McNamara's specialty was to statistically analyze the efficiency of fighting the protracted Vietnam War, including how to maximize the use of defoliants, bombs, and cannon.[17]
Initially, the basic policies outlined by President Kennedy in a message to Congress on March 28, 1961, guided McNamara in the reorientation of the defense program. Kennedy rejected the concept of first-strike attack and emphasized the need for adequate strategic arms and defense to deter nuclear attack on the United States and its allies. U.S. arms, he maintained, must constantly be under civilian command and control, and the nation's defense posture had to be "designed to reduce the danger of irrational or unpremeditated general war". The primary mission of U.S. overseas forces, in cooperation with allies, was "to prevent the steady erosion of the Free World through limited wars". Kennedy and McNamara rejected massive retaliation for a posture of flexible response. The U.S. wanted choices in an emergency other than "inglorious retreat or unlimited retaliation", as the president put it. Out of a major review of the military challenges confronting the U.S. initiated by McNamara in 1961 came a decision to increase the nation's "limited warfare" capabilities. These moves were significant because McNamara was abandoning President Dwight D. Eisenhower's policy of massive retaliation in favor of a flexible response strategy that relied on increased U.S. capacity to conduct limited, non-nuclear warfare.
The Kennedy administration placed particular emphasis on improving ability to counter communist "wars of national liberation", in which the enemy avoided head-on military confrontation and resorted to political subversion and guerrilla tactics. As McNamara said in his 1962 annual report, "The military tactics are those of the sniper, the ambush, and the raid. The political tactics are terror, extortion, and assassination." In practical terms, this meant training and equipping U.S. military personnel, as well as such allies as South Vietnam, for counterinsurgency operations.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, McNamara served as a member of EXCOMM and played a large role in the Administration's handling and eventual defusing of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was a strong proponent of the blockade option over a missile strike and helped persuade the Joint Chiefs of Staff to agree with the blockade option.
Increased attention to conventional strength complemented these special forces preparations. In this instance he called up reserves and also proceeded to expand the regular armed forces. Whereas active duty strength had declined from approximately 3,555,000 to 2,483,000 between 1953 (the end of the Korean War) and 1961, it increased to nearly 2,808,000 by June 30, 1962. Then the forces leveled off at around 2,700,000 until the Vietnam military buildup began in 1965, reaching a peak of nearly 3,550,000 by mid-1968, just after McNamara left office.
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Robert McNamara admits Vietnam War a mistake..flv
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- published: 13 Mar 2011
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Hardtalk - Robert McNamara (BBC 1998)
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- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
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- published: 21 Dec 2012
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SYND 30/11/67 ROBERT MCNAMARA RESIGNS AS DEFENCE SECRETARY
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Defence secretary Robert McNamara gives press conference on his acceptance of the post as head of the World Bank.
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𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐒 𝐌𝐜𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞
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An Appreciation of Robert McNamara | Charlie Rose
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An appreciation of Robert McNamara, former United States Secretary of Defense. McNamara died in his sleep at his home in Washington early in the morning on July...
An appreciation of Robert McNamara, former United States Secretary of Defense. McNamara died in his sleep at his home in Washington early in the morning on July 6, 2009. He was 93.
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An appreciation of Robert McNamara, former United States Secretary of Defense. McNamara died in his sleep at his home in Washington early in the morning on July 6, 2009. He was 93.
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Charlie Rose - interviews Robert McNamara
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Why Was the Vietnam War Fought? Robert McNamara on Lessons Learned, Mistakes (1995)
Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 -- July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679767495/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0679767495&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=763809cdcaa8ba220b5e3b32d4c6fefa He served under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Following that, he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. McNamara consolidated intelligence and logistics function...
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Conversations with History: Robert S. McNamara
Robert S. McNamara, former Secretary of Defense and former President of the World Bank reminisces with host Harry Kreisler about public service, the War in Vietnam, znc the dangers of the superpower confrontation during the Cold War. Series: Conversations with History [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 7131]
published: 12 Jun 2008 -
McNamara: I think we were wrong
McNamara: I think we were wrong
published: 07 Jul 2009 -
Hardtalk - Robert McNamara (BBC 1998)
published: 21 Dec 2012 -
"Fog of War": Errol Morris and Robert McNamara interview (2003)
Director Errol Morris and former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara describe their documentary "Fog of War" which follows the life of McNamara and his experience in modern warfare. »»﴿───► See more on the Directors Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIZqvqbtz9I04OH5IZee3L8FHY-Kt3I92
published: 21 Feb 2017 -
The Fog of War: Mark Danner in Conversation with Robert McNamara and Errol Morris
Mark Danner, Robert McNamara and Errol Morris in Zellerbach Hall, the University of California, Berkeley. Sponsored by Graduate School of Journalism. http://markdanner.com/
published: 27 Jan 2010 -
The Life and Times of Robert McNamara: Biography, Secretary of Defense, Vietnam War (1993)
After his election in 1960, President-elect John F. Kennedy first offered the post of Secretary of Defense to former secretary Robert A. Lovett; Lovett declined but recommended McNamara. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316782807/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0316782807&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=90bc1ff3e36cb50ebc074d74d70d4a21 Kennedy then sent Sargent Shriver to approach him regarding either the Treasury or the Defense cabinet post less than five weeks after McNamara had become president at Ford. McNamara immediately rejected the Treasury position but eventually accepted Kennedy's invitation to serve as Secretary of Defense. According to Special Counsel Ted Sorensen, Kennedy regarded McNamara as the "star of his team, calling upon h...
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Robert McNamara on the Cuban Missile Crisis
Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was at President Kennedy's side during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. In this interview excerpt from the 2003 film, The Fog of War, he makes the point, "At the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear wars.... The major lesson of the Cuban Crisis is this: The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will destroy nations."
published: 23 Apr 2011 -
McNamara admits Gulf of Tonkin attack did not happen
Interview with Robert McNamara who was Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War
published: 07 Apr 2017
Charlie Rose - interviews Robert McNamara
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Why Was the Vietnam War Fought? Robert McNamara on Lessons Learned, Mistakes (1995)
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Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 -- July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense. About the book: https://www.amazo...
Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 -- July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679767495/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0679767495&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=763809cdcaa8ba220b5e3b32d4c6fefa
He served under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
Following that, he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. McNamara consolidated intelligence and logistics functions of the Pentagon into two centralized agencies: the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Defense Supply Agency.
Prior to public service, McNamara was one of the "Whiz Kids" who helped rebuild Ford Motor Company after World War II, and briefly served as Ford's President before becoming Secretary of Defense. A group of advisors he brought to the Pentagon inherited the "Whiz Kids" moniker.
McNamara is the longest serving Secretary of Defense, amassing 2,595 days between 1961 and 1968.
During President John F. Kennedy's term, while McNamara was Secretary of Defense, America's troops in Vietnam increased from 900 to 16,000 advisers, who were not supposed to engage in combat but rather to train the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. The number of combat advisers in Vietnam when Kennedy died vary depending upon source. The first military adviser deaths in Vietnam occurred in 1957 or 59 under the Eisenhower Administration, which had infiltrated Vietnam, through the efforts of Stanley Sheinbaum, with an unknown number of CIA operatives and other special forces in addition to almost 700 advisers.
The Truman and Eisenhower administrations had committed the United States to support the French and native anti-Communist forces in Vietnam in resisting efforts by the Communists in the North to unify the country, though neither administration established actual combat forces in the war. The U.S. role—initially limited to financial support, military advice and covert intelligence gathering—expanded after 1954 when the French withdrew. During the Kennedy administration, the U.S. military advisory group in South Vietnam steadily increased, with McNamara's concurrence, from 900 to 16,000. U.S. involvement escalated after the Gulf of Tonkin incidents in August 1964, involving an attack on a U.S. Navy destroyer by North Vietnamese naval vessels. McNamara was instrumental in presenting this event to Congress and the public as justification for escalation of the war against the communists. The Vietnam War came to claim most of McNamara's time and energy.
President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes on North Vietnamese naval bases and Congress approved almost unanimously the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing the president "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the U.S. and to prevent further aggression."
In 1965, in response to stepped up military activity by the Viet Cong in South Vietnam and their North Vietnamese allies, the U.S. began bombing North Vietnam, deployed large military forces and entered into combat in South Vietnam. McNamara's plan, supported by requests from top U.S. military commanders in Vietnam, led to the commitment of 485,000 troops by the end of 1967 and almost 535,000 by June 30, 1968. The casualty lists mounted as the number of troops and the intensity of fighting escalated. McNamara put in place a statistical strategy for victory in Vietnam. He concluded that there were a limited number of Viet Cong fighters in Vietnam and that a war of attrition would destroy them. He applied metrics (body counts) to determine how close to success his plan was.
Although he was a prime architect of the Vietnam War and repeatedly overruled the JCS on strategic matters, McNamara gradually became skeptical about whether the war could be won by deploying more troops to South Vietnam and intensifying the bombing of North Vietnam, a claim he would publish in a book years later. He also stated later that his support of the Vietnam War was given out of loyalty to administration policy. He traveled to Vietnam many times to study the situation firsthand and became increasingly reluctant to approve the large force increments requested by the military commanders.
McNamara said that the Domino Theory was the main reason for entering the Vietnam War. In the same interview he stated, "Kennedy hadn't said before he died whether, faced with the loss of Vietnam, he would [completely] withdraw; but I believe today that had he faced that choice, he would have withdrawn."
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Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 -- July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679767495/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0679767495&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=763809cdcaa8ba220b5e3b32d4c6fefa
He served under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
Following that, he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. McNamara consolidated intelligence and logistics functions of the Pentagon into two centralized agencies: the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Defense Supply Agency.
Prior to public service, McNamara was one of the "Whiz Kids" who helped rebuild Ford Motor Company after World War II, and briefly served as Ford's President before becoming Secretary of Defense. A group of advisors he brought to the Pentagon inherited the "Whiz Kids" moniker.
McNamara is the longest serving Secretary of Defense, amassing 2,595 days between 1961 and 1968.
During President John F. Kennedy's term, while McNamara was Secretary of Defense, America's troops in Vietnam increased from 900 to 16,000 advisers, who were not supposed to engage in combat but rather to train the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. The number of combat advisers in Vietnam when Kennedy died vary depending upon source. The first military adviser deaths in Vietnam occurred in 1957 or 59 under the Eisenhower Administration, which had infiltrated Vietnam, through the efforts of Stanley Sheinbaum, with an unknown number of CIA operatives and other special forces in addition to almost 700 advisers.
The Truman and Eisenhower administrations had committed the United States to support the French and native anti-Communist forces in Vietnam in resisting efforts by the Communists in the North to unify the country, though neither administration established actual combat forces in the war. The U.S. role—initially limited to financial support, military advice and covert intelligence gathering—expanded after 1954 when the French withdrew. During the Kennedy administration, the U.S. military advisory group in South Vietnam steadily increased, with McNamara's concurrence, from 900 to 16,000. U.S. involvement escalated after the Gulf of Tonkin incidents in August 1964, involving an attack on a U.S. Navy destroyer by North Vietnamese naval vessels. McNamara was instrumental in presenting this event to Congress and the public as justification for escalation of the war against the communists. The Vietnam War came to claim most of McNamara's time and energy.
President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes on North Vietnamese naval bases and Congress approved almost unanimously the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing the president "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the U.S. and to prevent further aggression."
In 1965, in response to stepped up military activity by the Viet Cong in South Vietnam and their North Vietnamese allies, the U.S. began bombing North Vietnam, deployed large military forces and entered into combat in South Vietnam. McNamara's plan, supported by requests from top U.S. military commanders in Vietnam, led to the commitment of 485,000 troops by the end of 1967 and almost 535,000 by June 30, 1968. The casualty lists mounted as the number of troops and the intensity of fighting escalated. McNamara put in place a statistical strategy for victory in Vietnam. He concluded that there were a limited number of Viet Cong fighters in Vietnam and that a war of attrition would destroy them. He applied metrics (body counts) to determine how close to success his plan was.
Although he was a prime architect of the Vietnam War and repeatedly overruled the JCS on strategic matters, McNamara gradually became skeptical about whether the war could be won by deploying more troops to South Vietnam and intensifying the bombing of North Vietnam, a claim he would publish in a book years later. He also stated later that his support of the Vietnam War was given out of loyalty to administration policy. He traveled to Vietnam many times to study the situation firsthand and became increasingly reluctant to approve the large force increments requested by the military commanders.
McNamara said that the Domino Theory was the main reason for entering the Vietnam War. In the same interview he stated, "Kennedy hadn't said before he died whether, faced with the loss of Vietnam, he would [completely] withdraw; but I believe today that had he faced that choice, he would have withdrawn."
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- published: 03 May 2014
- views: 67769
Conversations with History: Robert S. McNamara
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- Duration: 1:00:36
- Updated: 12 Jun 2008
- views: 68009
Robert S. McNamara, former Secretary of Defense and former President of the World Bank reminisces with host Harry Kreisler about public service, the War in Viet...
Robert S. McNamara, former Secretary of Defense and former President of the World Bank reminisces with host Harry Kreisler about public service, the War in Vietnam, znc the dangers of the superpower confrontation during the Cold War.
Series: Conversations with History [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 7131]
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Robert S. McNamara, former Secretary of Defense and former President of the World Bank reminisces with host Harry Kreisler about public service, the War in Vietnam, znc the dangers of the superpower confrontation during the Cold War.
Series: Conversations with History [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 7131]
- published: 12 Jun 2008
- views: 68009
McNamara: I think we were wrong
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- Duration: 3:34
- Updated: 07 Jul 2009
- views: 1259
McNamara: I think we were wrong
McNamara: I think we were wrong
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McNamara: I think we were wrong
- published: 07 Jul 2009
- views: 1259
Hardtalk - Robert McNamara (BBC 1998)
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- Duration: 21:11
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
- views: 22281
- published: 21 Dec 2012
- views: 22281
"Fog of War": Errol Morris and Robert McNamara interview (2003)
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- Duration: 52:36
- Updated: 21 Feb 2017
- views: 51
Director Errol Morris and former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara describe their documentary "Fog of War" which follows the life of McNamara and his experie...
Director Errol Morris and former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara describe their documentary "Fog of War" which follows the life of McNamara and his experience in modern warfare.
»»﴿───► See more on the Directors Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIZqvqbtz9I04OH5IZee3L8FHY-Kt3I92
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Director Errol Morris and former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara describe their documentary "Fog of War" which follows the life of McNamara and his experience in modern warfare.
»»﴿───► See more on the Directors Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIZqvqbtz9I04OH5IZee3L8FHY-Kt3I92
- published: 21 Feb 2017
- views: 51
The Fog of War: Mark Danner in Conversation with Robert McNamara and Errol Morris
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:11:41
- Updated: 27 Jan 2010
- views: 33237
Mark Danner, Robert McNamara and Errol Morris in Zellerbach Hall, the University of California, Berkeley.
Sponsored by Graduate School of Journalism.
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Mark Danner, Robert McNamara and Errol Morris in Zellerbach Hall, the University of California, Berkeley.
Sponsored by Graduate School of Journalism.
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Mark Danner, Robert McNamara and Errol Morris in Zellerbach Hall, the University of California, Berkeley.
Sponsored by Graduate School of Journalism.
http://markdanner.com/
- published: 27 Jan 2010
- views: 33237
The Life and Times of Robert McNamara: Biography, Secretary of Defense, Vietnam War (1993)
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- Duration: 56:41
- Updated: 15 May 2014
- views: 9270
After his election in 1960, President-elect John F. Kennedy first offered the post of Secretary of Defense to former secretary Robert A. Lovett; Lovett declined...
After his election in 1960, President-elect John F. Kennedy first offered the post of Secretary of Defense to former secretary Robert A. Lovett; Lovett declined but recommended McNamara. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316782807/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0316782807&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=90bc1ff3e36cb50ebc074d74d70d4a21
Kennedy then sent Sargent Shriver to approach him regarding either the Treasury or the Defense cabinet post less than five weeks after McNamara had become president at Ford. McNamara immediately rejected the Treasury position but eventually accepted Kennedy's invitation to serve as Secretary of Defense.
According to Special Counsel Ted Sorensen, Kennedy regarded McNamara as the "star of his team, calling upon him for advice on a wide range of issues beyond national security, including business and economic matters."[15] McNamara became one of the few members of the Kennedy Administration to work and socialize with Kennedy, and he became so close to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy that he served as a pallbearer at the younger Kennedy's funeral in 1968.[16] McNamara's specialty was to statistically analyze the efficiency of fighting the protracted Vietnam War, including how to maximize the use of defoliants, bombs, and cannon.[17]
Initially, the basic policies outlined by President Kennedy in a message to Congress on March 28, 1961, guided McNamara in the reorientation of the defense program. Kennedy rejected the concept of first-strike attack and emphasized the need for adequate strategic arms and defense to deter nuclear attack on the United States and its allies. U.S. arms, he maintained, must constantly be under civilian command and control, and the nation's defense posture had to be "designed to reduce the danger of irrational or unpremeditated general war". The primary mission of U.S. overseas forces, in cooperation with allies, was "to prevent the steady erosion of the Free World through limited wars". Kennedy and McNamara rejected massive retaliation for a posture of flexible response. The U.S. wanted choices in an emergency other than "inglorious retreat or unlimited retaliation", as the president put it. Out of a major review of the military challenges confronting the U.S. initiated by McNamara in 1961 came a decision to increase the nation's "limited warfare" capabilities. These moves were significant because McNamara was abandoning President Dwight D. Eisenhower's policy of massive retaliation in favor of a flexible response strategy that relied on increased U.S. capacity to conduct limited, non-nuclear warfare.
The Kennedy administration placed particular emphasis on improving ability to counter communist "wars of national liberation", in which the enemy avoided head-on military confrontation and resorted to political subversion and guerrilla tactics. As McNamara said in his 1962 annual report, "The military tactics are those of the sniper, the ambush, and the raid. The political tactics are terror, extortion, and assassination." In practical terms, this meant training and equipping U.S. military personnel, as well as such allies as South Vietnam, for counterinsurgency operations.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, McNamara served as a member of EXCOMM and played a large role in the Administration's handling and eventual defusing of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was a strong proponent of the blockade option over a missile strike and helped persuade the Joint Chiefs of Staff to agree with the blockade option.
Increased attention to conventional strength complemented these special forces preparations. In this instance he called up reserves and also proceeded to expand the regular armed forces. Whereas active duty strength had declined from approximately 3,555,000 to 2,483,000 between 1953 (the end of the Korean War) and 1961, it increased to nearly 2,808,000 by June 30, 1962. Then the forces leveled off at around 2,700,000 until the Vietnam military buildup began in 1965, reaching a peak of nearly 3,550,000 by mid-1968, just after McNamara left office.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_mcnamara
https://wn.com/The_Life_And_Times_Of_Robert_Mcnamara_Biography,_Secretary_Of_Defense,_Vietnam_War_(1993)
After his election in 1960, President-elect John F. Kennedy first offered the post of Secretary of Defense to former secretary Robert A. Lovett; Lovett declined but recommended McNamara. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316782807/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0316782807&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=90bc1ff3e36cb50ebc074d74d70d4a21
Kennedy then sent Sargent Shriver to approach him regarding either the Treasury or the Defense cabinet post less than five weeks after McNamara had become president at Ford. McNamara immediately rejected the Treasury position but eventually accepted Kennedy's invitation to serve as Secretary of Defense.
According to Special Counsel Ted Sorensen, Kennedy regarded McNamara as the "star of his team, calling upon him for advice on a wide range of issues beyond national security, including business and economic matters."[15] McNamara became one of the few members of the Kennedy Administration to work and socialize with Kennedy, and he became so close to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy that he served as a pallbearer at the younger Kennedy's funeral in 1968.[16] McNamara's specialty was to statistically analyze the efficiency of fighting the protracted Vietnam War, including how to maximize the use of defoliants, bombs, and cannon.[17]
Initially, the basic policies outlined by President Kennedy in a message to Congress on March 28, 1961, guided McNamara in the reorientation of the defense program. Kennedy rejected the concept of first-strike attack and emphasized the need for adequate strategic arms and defense to deter nuclear attack on the United States and its allies. U.S. arms, he maintained, must constantly be under civilian command and control, and the nation's defense posture had to be "designed to reduce the danger of irrational or unpremeditated general war". The primary mission of U.S. overseas forces, in cooperation with allies, was "to prevent the steady erosion of the Free World through limited wars". Kennedy and McNamara rejected massive retaliation for a posture of flexible response. The U.S. wanted choices in an emergency other than "inglorious retreat or unlimited retaliation", as the president put it. Out of a major review of the military challenges confronting the U.S. initiated by McNamara in 1961 came a decision to increase the nation's "limited warfare" capabilities. These moves were significant because McNamara was abandoning President Dwight D. Eisenhower's policy of massive retaliation in favor of a flexible response strategy that relied on increased U.S. capacity to conduct limited, non-nuclear warfare.
The Kennedy administration placed particular emphasis on improving ability to counter communist "wars of national liberation", in which the enemy avoided head-on military confrontation and resorted to political subversion and guerrilla tactics. As McNamara said in his 1962 annual report, "The military tactics are those of the sniper, the ambush, and the raid. The political tactics are terror, extortion, and assassination." In practical terms, this meant training and equipping U.S. military personnel, as well as such allies as South Vietnam, for counterinsurgency operations.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, McNamara served as a member of EXCOMM and played a large role in the Administration's handling and eventual defusing of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was a strong proponent of the blockade option over a missile strike and helped persuade the Joint Chiefs of Staff to agree with the blockade option.
Increased attention to conventional strength complemented these special forces preparations. In this instance he called up reserves and also proceeded to expand the regular armed forces. Whereas active duty strength had declined from approximately 3,555,000 to 2,483,000 between 1953 (the end of the Korean War) and 1961, it increased to nearly 2,808,000 by June 30, 1962. Then the forces leveled off at around 2,700,000 until the Vietnam military buildup began in 1965, reaching a peak of nearly 3,550,000 by mid-1968, just after McNamara left office.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_mcnamara
- published: 15 May 2014
- views: 9270
Robert McNamara on the Cuban Missile Crisis
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- Duration: 2:18
- Updated: 23 Apr 2011
- views: 12036
Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was at President Kennedy's side during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. In this interview excerpt from the 2003 film, ...
Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was at President Kennedy's side during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. In this interview excerpt from the 2003 film, The Fog of War, he makes the point, "At the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear wars.... The major lesson of the Cuban Crisis is this: The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will destroy nations."
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Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was at President Kennedy's side during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. In this interview excerpt from the 2003 film, The Fog of War, he makes the point, "At the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear wars.... The major lesson of the Cuban Crisis is this: The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will destroy nations."
- published: 23 Apr 2011
- views: 12036
McNamara admits Gulf of Tonkin attack did not happen
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:34
- Updated: 07 Apr 2017
- views: 32
Interview with Robert McNamara who was Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War
Interview with Robert McNamara who was Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War
https://wn.com/Mcnamara_Admits_Gulf_Of_Tonkin_Attack_Did_Not_Happen
Interview with Robert McNamara who was Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War
- published: 07 Apr 2017
- views: 32
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Why Was the Vietnam War Fought? Robert McNamara on Lessons Learned, Mistakes (1995)
Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 -- July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679767495/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0679767495&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=763809cdcaa8ba220b5e3b32d4c6fefa He served under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Following that, he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. McNamara consolidated intelligence and logistics function...
published: 03 May 2014 -
The Fog of War Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S McNamara full movie
published: 04 Mar 2017 -
Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S McNamara (9 episode)
Part of the documentall film about Mc'Namara. Vietnam - meeting wiht oppsing force in '95, and in it's part Vietnam PM says to McNamara about why Vietnam-people figth against american armed citizens "It's war for independent...".
published: 12 Feb 2010 -
US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara addresses a news conference and reports on V...HD Stock Footage
Link to order this clip: http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675073012_Robert-McNamara_Defense-Secretary_news-conference_damaged-bridges_Chinese-machine-gun Historic Stock Footage Archival and Vintage Video Clips in HD. US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara addresses a news conference and reports on Vietnam in the United States. US Defense Secretary McNamara addresses a news conference in the United States. United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara addresses a news conference and reports on Vietnam. He points at the bombed out supply routes from the North Vietnam. He shows the Chinese machine gun. He points at the charts showing the air raid damaged bridges. Reporters note down the points. The Defense Secretary states presence of the regular North Vietnamese troops in the South. ...
published: 03 Jul 2014 -
The Life and Times of Robert McNamara: Biography, Secretary of Defense, Vietnam War (1993)
After his election in 1960, President-elect John F. Kennedy first offered the post of Secretary of Defense to former secretary Robert A. Lovett; Lovett declined but recommended McNamara. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316782807/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0316782807&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=90bc1ff3e36cb50ebc074d74d70d4a21 Kennedy then sent Sargent Shriver to approach him regarding either the Treasury or the Defense cabinet post less than five weeks after McNamara had become president at Ford. McNamara immediately rejected the Treasury position but eventually accepted Kennedy's invitation to serve as Secretary of Defense. According to Special Counsel Ted Sorensen, Kennedy regarded McNamara as the "star of his team, calling upon h...
published: 15 May 2014 -
Robert McNamara admits Vietnam War a mistake..flv
published: 13 Mar 2011 -
Hardtalk - Robert McNamara (BBC 1998)
published: 21 Dec 2012 -
SYND 30/11/67 ROBERT MCNAMARA RESIGNS AS DEFENCE SECRETARY
Defence secretary Robert McNamara gives press conference on his acceptance of the post as head of the World Bank. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/d701a8fe144bd3a17eefebc11cbfb4f0 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
published: 24 Jul 2015 -
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published: 29 Dec 2016 -
An Appreciation of Robert McNamara | Charlie Rose
An appreciation of Robert McNamara, former United States Secretary of Defense. McNamara died in his sleep at his home in Washington early in the morning on July 6, 2009. He was 93. SUBSCRIBE to get the latest from Charlie Rose: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseSUBSCRIBE Connect with Charlie Rose Online: Visit the Charlie Rose WEBSITE: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseDotCom Like Charlie Rose on FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseFacebook Follow Charlie Rose on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseTwitter Follow Charlie Rose on INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseInstagram About Charlie Rose: Emmy award winning journalist Charlie Rose has been praised as "one of America's premier interviewers." He is the host of Charlie Rose, the nightly PBS program that engages America's best thinkers, writers, politici...
published: 10 Jul 2009
Why Was the Vietnam War Fought? Robert McNamara on Lessons Learned, Mistakes (1995)
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- Duration: 1:58:27
- Updated: 03 May 2014
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Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 -- July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense. About the book: https://www.amazo...
Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 -- July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679767495/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0679767495&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=763809cdcaa8ba220b5e3b32d4c6fefa
He served under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
Following that, he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. McNamara consolidated intelligence and logistics functions of the Pentagon into two centralized agencies: the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Defense Supply Agency.
Prior to public service, McNamara was one of the "Whiz Kids" who helped rebuild Ford Motor Company after World War II, and briefly served as Ford's President before becoming Secretary of Defense. A group of advisors he brought to the Pentagon inherited the "Whiz Kids" moniker.
McNamara is the longest serving Secretary of Defense, amassing 2,595 days between 1961 and 1968.
During President John F. Kennedy's term, while McNamara was Secretary of Defense, America's troops in Vietnam increased from 900 to 16,000 advisers, who were not supposed to engage in combat but rather to train the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. The number of combat advisers in Vietnam when Kennedy died vary depending upon source. The first military adviser deaths in Vietnam occurred in 1957 or 59 under the Eisenhower Administration, which had infiltrated Vietnam, through the efforts of Stanley Sheinbaum, with an unknown number of CIA operatives and other special forces in addition to almost 700 advisers.
The Truman and Eisenhower administrations had committed the United States to support the French and native anti-Communist forces in Vietnam in resisting efforts by the Communists in the North to unify the country, though neither administration established actual combat forces in the war. The U.S. role—initially limited to financial support, military advice and covert intelligence gathering—expanded after 1954 when the French withdrew. During the Kennedy administration, the U.S. military advisory group in South Vietnam steadily increased, with McNamara's concurrence, from 900 to 16,000. U.S. involvement escalated after the Gulf of Tonkin incidents in August 1964, involving an attack on a U.S. Navy destroyer by North Vietnamese naval vessels. McNamara was instrumental in presenting this event to Congress and the public as justification for escalation of the war against the communists. The Vietnam War came to claim most of McNamara's time and energy.
President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes on North Vietnamese naval bases and Congress approved almost unanimously the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing the president "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the U.S. and to prevent further aggression."
In 1965, in response to stepped up military activity by the Viet Cong in South Vietnam and their North Vietnamese allies, the U.S. began bombing North Vietnam, deployed large military forces and entered into combat in South Vietnam. McNamara's plan, supported by requests from top U.S. military commanders in Vietnam, led to the commitment of 485,000 troops by the end of 1967 and almost 535,000 by June 30, 1968. The casualty lists mounted as the number of troops and the intensity of fighting escalated. McNamara put in place a statistical strategy for victory in Vietnam. He concluded that there were a limited number of Viet Cong fighters in Vietnam and that a war of attrition would destroy them. He applied metrics (body counts) to determine how close to success his plan was.
Although he was a prime architect of the Vietnam War and repeatedly overruled the JCS on strategic matters, McNamara gradually became skeptical about whether the war could be won by deploying more troops to South Vietnam and intensifying the bombing of North Vietnam, a claim he would publish in a book years later. He also stated later that his support of the Vietnam War was given out of loyalty to administration policy. He traveled to Vietnam many times to study the situation firsthand and became increasingly reluctant to approve the large force increments requested by the military commanders.
McNamara said that the Domino Theory was the main reason for entering the Vietnam War. In the same interview he stated, "Kennedy hadn't said before he died whether, faced with the loss of Vietnam, he would [completely] withdraw; but I believe today that had he faced that choice, he would have withdrawn."
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Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 -- July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679767495/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0679767495&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=763809cdcaa8ba220b5e3b32d4c6fefa
He served under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
Following that, he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. McNamara consolidated intelligence and logistics functions of the Pentagon into two centralized agencies: the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Defense Supply Agency.
Prior to public service, McNamara was one of the "Whiz Kids" who helped rebuild Ford Motor Company after World War II, and briefly served as Ford's President before becoming Secretary of Defense. A group of advisors he brought to the Pentagon inherited the "Whiz Kids" moniker.
McNamara is the longest serving Secretary of Defense, amassing 2,595 days between 1961 and 1968.
During President John F. Kennedy's term, while McNamara was Secretary of Defense, America's troops in Vietnam increased from 900 to 16,000 advisers, who were not supposed to engage in combat but rather to train the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. The number of combat advisers in Vietnam when Kennedy died vary depending upon source. The first military adviser deaths in Vietnam occurred in 1957 or 59 under the Eisenhower Administration, which had infiltrated Vietnam, through the efforts of Stanley Sheinbaum, with an unknown number of CIA operatives and other special forces in addition to almost 700 advisers.
The Truman and Eisenhower administrations had committed the United States to support the French and native anti-Communist forces in Vietnam in resisting efforts by the Communists in the North to unify the country, though neither administration established actual combat forces in the war. The U.S. role—initially limited to financial support, military advice and covert intelligence gathering—expanded after 1954 when the French withdrew. During the Kennedy administration, the U.S. military advisory group in South Vietnam steadily increased, with McNamara's concurrence, from 900 to 16,000. U.S. involvement escalated after the Gulf of Tonkin incidents in August 1964, involving an attack on a U.S. Navy destroyer by North Vietnamese naval vessels. McNamara was instrumental in presenting this event to Congress and the public as justification for escalation of the war against the communists. The Vietnam War came to claim most of McNamara's time and energy.
President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes on North Vietnamese naval bases and Congress approved almost unanimously the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing the president "to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the U.S. and to prevent further aggression."
In 1965, in response to stepped up military activity by the Viet Cong in South Vietnam and their North Vietnamese allies, the U.S. began bombing North Vietnam, deployed large military forces and entered into combat in South Vietnam. McNamara's plan, supported by requests from top U.S. military commanders in Vietnam, led to the commitment of 485,000 troops by the end of 1967 and almost 535,000 by June 30, 1968. The casualty lists mounted as the number of troops and the intensity of fighting escalated. McNamara put in place a statistical strategy for victory in Vietnam. He concluded that there were a limited number of Viet Cong fighters in Vietnam and that a war of attrition would destroy them. He applied metrics (body counts) to determine how close to success his plan was.
Although he was a prime architect of the Vietnam War and repeatedly overruled the JCS on strategic matters, McNamara gradually became skeptical about whether the war could be won by deploying more troops to South Vietnam and intensifying the bombing of North Vietnam, a claim he would publish in a book years later. He also stated later that his support of the Vietnam War was given out of loyalty to administration policy. He traveled to Vietnam many times to study the situation firsthand and became increasingly reluctant to approve the large force increments requested by the military commanders.
McNamara said that the Domino Theory was the main reason for entering the Vietnam War. In the same interview he stated, "Kennedy hadn't said before he died whether, faced with the loss of Vietnam, he would [completely] withdraw; but I believe today that had he faced that choice, he would have withdrawn."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_mcnamara
- published: 03 May 2014
- views: 67769
The Fog of War Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S McNamara full movie
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- Duration: 1:23:01
- Updated: 04 Mar 2017
- views: 1612
- published: 04 Mar 2017
- views: 1612
Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S McNamara (9 episode)
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- Duration: 9:29
- Updated: 12 Feb 2010
- views: 45285
Part of the documentall film about Mc'Namara. Vietnam - meeting wiht oppsing force in '95, and in it's part Vietnam PM says to McNamara about why Vietnam-people...
Part of the documentall film about Mc'Namara. Vietnam - meeting wiht oppsing force in '95, and in it's part Vietnam PM says to McNamara about why Vietnam-people figth against american armed citizens "It's war for independent...".
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US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara addresses a news conference and reports on V...HD Stock Footage
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- Duration: 1:58
- Updated: 03 Jul 2014
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US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara addresses a news conference and reports on Vietnam in the United States.
US Defense Secretary McNamara addresses a news conference in the United States. United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara addresses a news conference and reports on Vietnam. He points at the bombed out supply routes from the North Vietnam. He shows the Chinese machine gun. He points at the charts showing the air raid damaged bridges. Reporters note down the points. The Defense Secretary states presence of the regular North Vietnamese troops in the South. Location: United States. Date: April 26, 1965.
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The Life and Times of Robert McNamara: Biography, Secretary of Defense, Vietnam War (1993)
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After his election in 1960, President-elect John F. Kennedy first offered the post of Secretary of Defense to former secretary Robert A. Lovett; Lovett declined...
After his election in 1960, President-elect John F. Kennedy first offered the post of Secretary of Defense to former secretary Robert A. Lovett; Lovett declined but recommended McNamara. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316782807/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0316782807&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=90bc1ff3e36cb50ebc074d74d70d4a21
Kennedy then sent Sargent Shriver to approach him regarding either the Treasury or the Defense cabinet post less than five weeks after McNamara had become president at Ford. McNamara immediately rejected the Treasury position but eventually accepted Kennedy's invitation to serve as Secretary of Defense.
According to Special Counsel Ted Sorensen, Kennedy regarded McNamara as the "star of his team, calling upon him for advice on a wide range of issues beyond national security, including business and economic matters."[15] McNamara became one of the few members of the Kennedy Administration to work and socialize with Kennedy, and he became so close to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy that he served as a pallbearer at the younger Kennedy's funeral in 1968.[16] McNamara's specialty was to statistically analyze the efficiency of fighting the protracted Vietnam War, including how to maximize the use of defoliants, bombs, and cannon.[17]
Initially, the basic policies outlined by President Kennedy in a message to Congress on March 28, 1961, guided McNamara in the reorientation of the defense program. Kennedy rejected the concept of first-strike attack and emphasized the need for adequate strategic arms and defense to deter nuclear attack on the United States and its allies. U.S. arms, he maintained, must constantly be under civilian command and control, and the nation's defense posture had to be "designed to reduce the danger of irrational or unpremeditated general war". The primary mission of U.S. overseas forces, in cooperation with allies, was "to prevent the steady erosion of the Free World through limited wars". Kennedy and McNamara rejected massive retaliation for a posture of flexible response. The U.S. wanted choices in an emergency other than "inglorious retreat or unlimited retaliation", as the president put it. Out of a major review of the military challenges confronting the U.S. initiated by McNamara in 1961 came a decision to increase the nation's "limited warfare" capabilities. These moves were significant because McNamara was abandoning President Dwight D. Eisenhower's policy of massive retaliation in favor of a flexible response strategy that relied on increased U.S. capacity to conduct limited, non-nuclear warfare.
The Kennedy administration placed particular emphasis on improving ability to counter communist "wars of national liberation", in which the enemy avoided head-on military confrontation and resorted to political subversion and guerrilla tactics. As McNamara said in his 1962 annual report, "The military tactics are those of the sniper, the ambush, and the raid. The political tactics are terror, extortion, and assassination." In practical terms, this meant training and equipping U.S. military personnel, as well as such allies as South Vietnam, for counterinsurgency operations.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, McNamara served as a member of EXCOMM and played a large role in the Administration's handling and eventual defusing of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was a strong proponent of the blockade option over a missile strike and helped persuade the Joint Chiefs of Staff to agree with the blockade option.
Increased attention to conventional strength complemented these special forces preparations. In this instance he called up reserves and also proceeded to expand the regular armed forces. Whereas active duty strength had declined from approximately 3,555,000 to 2,483,000 between 1953 (the end of the Korean War) and 1961, it increased to nearly 2,808,000 by June 30, 1962. Then the forces leveled off at around 2,700,000 until the Vietnam military buildup began in 1965, reaching a peak of nearly 3,550,000 by mid-1968, just after McNamara left office.
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After his election in 1960, President-elect John F. Kennedy first offered the post of Secretary of Defense to former secretary Robert A. Lovett; Lovett declined but recommended McNamara. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316782807/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1789&creative;=9325&creativeASIN;=0316782807&linkCode;=as2&tag;=tra0c7-20&linkId;=90bc1ff3e36cb50ebc074d74d70d4a21
Kennedy then sent Sargent Shriver to approach him regarding either the Treasury or the Defense cabinet post less than five weeks after McNamara had become president at Ford. McNamara immediately rejected the Treasury position but eventually accepted Kennedy's invitation to serve as Secretary of Defense.
According to Special Counsel Ted Sorensen, Kennedy regarded McNamara as the "star of his team, calling upon him for advice on a wide range of issues beyond national security, including business and economic matters."[15] McNamara became one of the few members of the Kennedy Administration to work and socialize with Kennedy, and he became so close to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy that he served as a pallbearer at the younger Kennedy's funeral in 1968.[16] McNamara's specialty was to statistically analyze the efficiency of fighting the protracted Vietnam War, including how to maximize the use of defoliants, bombs, and cannon.[17]
Initially, the basic policies outlined by President Kennedy in a message to Congress on March 28, 1961, guided McNamara in the reorientation of the defense program. Kennedy rejected the concept of first-strike attack and emphasized the need for adequate strategic arms and defense to deter nuclear attack on the United States and its allies. U.S. arms, he maintained, must constantly be under civilian command and control, and the nation's defense posture had to be "designed to reduce the danger of irrational or unpremeditated general war". The primary mission of U.S. overseas forces, in cooperation with allies, was "to prevent the steady erosion of the Free World through limited wars". Kennedy and McNamara rejected massive retaliation for a posture of flexible response. The U.S. wanted choices in an emergency other than "inglorious retreat or unlimited retaliation", as the president put it. Out of a major review of the military challenges confronting the U.S. initiated by McNamara in 1961 came a decision to increase the nation's "limited warfare" capabilities. These moves were significant because McNamara was abandoning President Dwight D. Eisenhower's policy of massive retaliation in favor of a flexible response strategy that relied on increased U.S. capacity to conduct limited, non-nuclear warfare.
The Kennedy administration placed particular emphasis on improving ability to counter communist "wars of national liberation", in which the enemy avoided head-on military confrontation and resorted to political subversion and guerrilla tactics. As McNamara said in his 1962 annual report, "The military tactics are those of the sniper, the ambush, and the raid. The political tactics are terror, extortion, and assassination." In practical terms, this meant training and equipping U.S. military personnel, as well as such allies as South Vietnam, for counterinsurgency operations.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, McNamara served as a member of EXCOMM and played a large role in the Administration's handling and eventual defusing of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was a strong proponent of the blockade option over a missile strike and helped persuade the Joint Chiefs of Staff to agree with the blockade option.
Increased attention to conventional strength complemented these special forces preparations. In this instance he called up reserves and also proceeded to expand the regular armed forces. Whereas active duty strength had declined from approximately 3,555,000 to 2,483,000 between 1953 (the end of the Korean War) and 1961, it increased to nearly 2,808,000 by June 30, 1962. Then the forces leveled off at around 2,700,000 until the Vietnam military buildup began in 1965, reaching a peak of nearly 3,550,000 by mid-1968, just after McNamara left office.
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SYND 30/11/67 ROBERT MCNAMARA RESIGNS AS DEFENCE SECRETARY
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Defence secretary Robert McNamara gives press conference on his acceptance of the post as head of the World Bank.
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An Appreciation of Robert McNamara | Charlie Rose
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An appreciation of Robert McNamara, former United States Secretary of Defense. McNamara died in his sleep at his home in Washington early in the morning on July...
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Robert McNamara on the Cuban Missile Crisis
Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was at President Kennedy's side during the 196...
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McNamara admits Gulf of Tonkin attack did not happen
Interview with Robert McNamara who was Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam war.
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Why Was the Vietnam War Fought? Robert McNamara on Lessons Learned, Mistakes (1995)
Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 -- July 6, 2009) was an American business executive ...
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Why Was the Vietnam War Fought? Robert McNamara on Lessons Learned, Mistakes (1995)
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The Fog of War Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S McNamara full movie
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The Fog of War Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S McNamara full movie
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Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S McNamara (9 episode)
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US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara addresses a news conference and reports on V...HD Stock Footage
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US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara addresses a news conference and reports on V...HD Stock Footage
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The Life and Times of Robert McNamara: Biography, Secretary of Defense, Vietnam War (1993)
After his election in 1960, President-elect John F. Kennedy first offered the post of Secr...
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The Life and Times of Robert McNamara: Biography, Secretary of Defense, Vietnam War (1993)
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Robert McNamara admits Vietnam War a mistake..flv
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Hardtalk - Robert McNamara (BBC 1998)
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SYND 30/11/67 ROBERT MCNAMARA RESIGNS AS DEFENCE SECRETARY
Defence secretary Robert McNamara gives press conference on his acceptance of the post as ...
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SYND 30/11/67 ROBERT MCNAMARA RESIGNS AS DEFENCE SECRETARY
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An Appreciation of Robert McNamara | Charlie Rose
An appreciation of Robert McNamara, former United States Secretary of Defense. McNamara di...
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Robert McNamara Interview
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Robert McNamara on Laws and Regulations
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The Education Of Robert McNamara War And Peace In The Nuclear Age
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Robert McNamara on Argument Without End (1999)
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"Series Overview & Obama Legacy" (Part 1) Mark Hoffman, Vivienne Crawford, Robert McNamara
A conversation between Mark Hoffman, Vivenne Crawford, and Robert McNamara
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"Series Overview & Obama Legacy" (Part 1) Mark Hoffman, Vivienne Crawford, Robert McNamara
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"When Will We Ever Learn?" (Part 1) Charles DeGaulle, Niccolo Machiavelli, Robert McNamara
A conversation between Charles DeGaulle, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Robert McNamara
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Popular Videos - Robert McNamara & The Fog of War
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Faith and Hope with Charity 1-2-2015
Charity and guest Robert McNamara talk about The Faith of Christ . Robert McNamara 989-225...
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Homeland Security and FBI: Russian Hackers Targeting Nuclear Facilities
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In a joint report from the FBI and Homeland Security Department, there were details about how since May, hackers were targeting computer networks of companies that operate nuclear power stations and other energy facilities in the United States and other countries, according to CNBC ... The order specifically addressed the threats from "electricity disruptions and prolonged power outages resulting from cybersecurity incidents."....
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Putin Denies Election Interference During Extensive Conversation With Trump
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During their two-hour meeting on Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the intelligence claims of Russian interference in the U.S. elections, according to Politico. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke to reporters after the meeting and said that a ceasefire to end the violence in Syria was a "defined agreement" and could be a sign of further cooperation in Syria ... and Russia relations....
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Striking North Korea first could be 'catastrophic'
Edit Longview News Journal 07 Jul 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — A pre-emptive military strike may be among the "pretty severe things" President Donald Trump says he is considering for North Korea, but it's a step so fraught with risk it ranks as among the unlikeliest options ... An all-out conflict could then ensue. And while Trump's Pentagon chief, Jim Mattis, says the U.S. would prevail, he believes it would be "a catastrophic war." ... "That doesn't mean we're going to do them." ... soil ... ....
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Russia and US Reach New Cease-Fire Agreement in Syria
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While United States President and Russian President Vladimir Putin were holding their first meeting in Hamburg on Friday, officials from the two countries announced they reached a cease-fire deal in southwest Syria, according to The Associated Press. The deal is a milestone for the involvement for the U.S ... The officials said that Jordan and Israel are part of the agreement since the U.S ... from their talks ... The U.S ... The U.S....
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Just Ask Britain’s Elite SAS Units If Lengthy Wars And Wartime Frustration Equals Atrocities
Edit WorldNews.com 07 Jul 2017
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingWhat happens when imperial fanaticism meets religious fanaticism? . If you answered a very long war without a beginning and end, and in which both sides commit numerous war crimes due to wartime frustration setting in, you were right ... Evidently, special forces soldiers murdered Afghans during raids on their homes and then planted guns to make it appear they were part of Taliban forces ... ....
The Walworth Beauty by Michèle Roberts
Edit The Irish Times 08 Jul 2017
In this fine example of descriptive fiction, Michèle Roberts weaves together the tales of people, divided by time, living in and around Walworth, London ... Roberts does justice to both strands of this story which is richly descriptive, evocative and packed with characters. ....
Judge strikes down Utah law banning undercover farm filming
Edit The Tribune San Luis Obispo 08 Jul 2017Federal judge strikes down Utah’s ‘ag-gag’ law as unconstitutional
Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 08 Jul 2017
A federal judge on Friday struck down Utah’s so-called “ag-gag” law, siding with animal-rights activists that the statute — which prohibits unauthorized filming of agricultural operations — violates free speech rights. U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby made the ruling in a case where two animal-rights group and an activist sued the state over the “agriculture operation interference” law, approved in 2012 by the Legislature ... ....
Nebraska man who claimed US Sen Joni Ernst ‘is member of Islamic State’ arrested for ...
Edit Raw Story 08 Jul 2017
Robert William Simet, an Omaha, Nebraska resident, has been arrested for making threats against the life of U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) after claiming she is a member of the Islamic State. According to the Associated Press, 64-year-old Simet was arrested by FBI agents on Friday for threatening Ernst... ....
Roberts leads group of U.S. senators calling for U.N. probe into Congo deaths
Edit The Wichita Eagle 08 Jul 2017
Pat Roberts, R-Kan., has joined Cory Booker, D-N.J., in leading a bipartisan group of 10 U.S. senators urging the United Nations to appoint an independent special investigation into the suspicious ... ....
10 ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Easter Eggs You Might Have Missed
Edit Variety 08 Jul 2017
(SPOILERS. Do not read if you haven’t seen “Spider-Man. Homecoming.”) With Spider-Man’s move into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the character’s first solo outing was bound to include plenty of fun nods to the other famous superheros. From Robert Downey Jr.’s appearance as Tony Stark/Iron Man, to Peter’s school showing PSAs featuring Captain America, and references... Read more » ... ....
Climate change could make California wetter, study finds
Edit The San Diego Union-Tribune 08 Jul 2017
California could get wetter — not drier — in coming decades, according to a UC Riverside study that upends some conventions about climate change. The study, by climatology professor Robert Allen and graduate student Rainer Luptowitz, was published Thursday in the scientific journal Nature Communications ... ....
1 of 3 endangered Key deer found tied up in car euthanized
Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 08 Jul 2017
LITTLE TORCH KEY, Fla ... Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Robert Dube says a buck was put down Thursday morning because of a leg injury ... ....
SHAREHOLDER ALERT:Pomerantz Law Firm Reminds Shareholders with Losses on their Investment in Neurotrope, Inc. of Class Action Lawsuit and Upcoming Deadline – NTRP
Edit Market Watch 08 Jul 2017
NEW YORK, Jul 07, 2017 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Neurotrope, Inc. (“Neurotrope” or the “Company”) NTRP, -1.20% and certain of its officers ... A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at rswilloughby@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll free, ext. 9980 ... SOURCE. Pomerantz LLP ... Robert S....
MotoAmerica hitting the gas on American road racing
Edit Reflector 08 Jul 2017
Rainey was a big part of Superbike’s glory years, winning three straight world titles from 1990-92. Those came in the middle of a run in which Americans won 13 of 16 titles, including four by Eddie Lawson, three by Kenny Roberts, two more by Freddie Spencer ... Roberts won another title in 2000, but the only American to capture a title since then was Nicky Hayden in 2006 ... With that, the electronic packages in the U.S....
SHAREHOLDER ALERT:Pomerantz Law Firm Reminds Shareholders with Losses on their Investment in Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. of Class Action Lawsuit and Upcoming Deadline – ITCI
Edit Market Watch 08 Jul 2017
NEW YORK, Jul 07, 2017 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. (“Intra-Cellular” or the “Company”) ITCI, +2.00% and certain of its officers ... A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at rswilloughby@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll free, ext. 9980 ... Robert S....
The Psychopath or Sociopath Next Door
Edit Creators Syndicate 08 Jul 2017
While passing two people on the street the other day, I heard one say. "I don't know what's wrong with him ... A Vancouver doctor named Robert Hare devised a widely accepted checklist test to determine whether a person is a true psychopath....
KKK protesters ‘will be armed’ when they protest in support of Confederate statue
Edit The Daily Telegraph 08 Jul 2017
“It’s an open-carry state, so our members will be armed,” he said, adding that he expected as many as 100 people to turn out in protest at Charlottesville City Council’s decision to pull down a statute of General Robert Lee ......
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