The Fog of War – Lesson #7: Belief and seeing are both often wrong
The USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy both claim to have made contact with North Vietnamese water craft and to have drawn torpedo fire
The USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy both claim to have made contact with North Vietnamese water craft and to have drawn torpedo fire
McNamara joined Ford as an executive in 1946. Ford did not have a market research organization when he joined, so he established one. First, he
McNamara suggests that General LeMay’s defense of his decision to firebomb so many Japanese cities would ask whether it would have been better to not
Early in World War II, the B-29 bomber was developed to remedy some of the shortfalls of the B-17 and B-24. It was thought that
While attending university, McNamara found himself excited to learn philosophy. “I never heard of Plato and Aristotle before I became a freshman at Berkeley …
It is difficult to summarize this lesson any better than McNamara did below (emphasis added): “I want to say, and this is very important: at