Mcnamara, clifford, and the burdens of vietnam, 1965-1969: Secretaries of Defense Historical Series Vol. VI

摘要

As secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968, Robert S. McNamara completely reorganized the defense budgetary process, created the Defense Intelligence Agency and Defense Logistics Agency, and helped define the strategy of mutually assured destruction based on the nuclear triad. Yet, as Edward Drea concludes in this magnificent volume, "for all his luminous achievements, his choices that led to the Vietnam disaster will forever remain McNamara's enduring legacy."