Book Quote by Peter Bergen

Any military commander who is honest will admit he makes mistakes in the application of military power. -Robert McNamara

— Call Of Duty

When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American…

— Samantha Power

I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years…

— Walter Cronkite

“a lot of lives in Vietnam were wasted by the folks driving those big desks in Washington. It’s easy to make a decision when…

— Ed Kugler

“McNamara’s whiz kids were smart. But they had almost no experience in either war or weaponry, and were not necessarily an able substitute for…

— C.J. Chivers

I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified…

— Anonymous

“LIED-ABOUT WARS Advertising campaigns, marketing schemes. The target is public opinion. Wars are sold the same way cars are, by lying. In August 1964,…

— Eduardo Galeano

Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war…

— H. R. McMaster

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to…

— Thomas Sowell

“the entire rationale for fighting in Vietnam was rooted in faith. Faith that his elected leaders and military bosses knew what they were doing…

— Mark Bowden

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

— Ronald Reagan

“By 1967 McNamara was pacing about his expansive Pentagon office, staring at the large framed photograph of Defense Secretary Forrestal (who had committed suicide),…

— James T. Patterson