In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam by Robert S. McNamara

In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam Robert S. McNamara ebook
ISBN: 9780679767497
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: pdf
Page: 576

Secretary of defense, speaking in 1962, on his first trip to Vietnam. In Retrospect The Tragedy And Lessons Of Vietnam Review. In the 1990s, the post-Cold War desire to I'm astonished Boot has the audacity to invoke the short-lived Soviet conquest of Afghanistan, since the complete failure of that tragic enterprise underscores the irrationality of our present project. It was this book that got Morris thinking about the film. The 'Come Home, America' isolationism of the 1970s was followed by the fall of South Vietnam, the genocide in Cambodia, the Iranian hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, McNamara was a principal architect of the Vietnam War. The substance of the lessons is all McNamara from the interview and echoing his book In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, but you're right that the onscreen wording was chosen and arranged by Morris. Ãームページ作成 · free website · About | druckversion Print Version | Sitemap · Login Jimdo logout | Edit. 2 See Robert McNamara, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, Times Books, Random House, 1995 & John M. Newman, JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the struggle for power, Warner Books, 1992. We're winning this war." Robert McNamara, U.S. In 1995, he published In Retrospect: the Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, which contains much of the same insight as The Fog of War. The concept of formulating the film into "11 lessons" comes from McNamara's 1996 book In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam.