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Robert McNamara

September 2013

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March 2011

  • Robert McNamara

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9 July 2009

  • Martin Kettle

    Britain's defence policy is mired in deceit and denial

    Martin Kettle
    Martin Kettle: Robert McNamara was haunted by an act of great military folly. Those who order war in Afghanistan risk a similiar, awful fate

7 July 2009

  • Robert McNamara, centre, then US secretary of defence, dies aged 93

    The failure of Robert McNamara

    Martin Woollacott

    Martin Woollacott: Hailed as one of 'the best and the brightest' of his age, Robert McNamara was a ditherer who lacked courage

  • Michael Tomasky's blog
    Alternate Cold War history

    Michael Tomasky: What would history be like if the US refrained from the coup-sponsoring game?

  • A technocrat transformed by Vietnam

    Michael Boyle

    Michael Boyle: McNamara tried to run the war like a Ford production line. But unlike Cheney and Rumsfeld, he learned from his errors

6 July 2009

  • Former US secretary of defence Robert McNamara has died.

    Robert McNamara dies

  • Robert McNamara

    Robert McNamara

  • Michael Tomasky's blog
    Robert McNamara

  • Robert McNamara, centre, then US secretary of defence, dies aged 93

    Vietnam war architect Robert McNamara dies

June 2005

  • McNamara attacks UK nuclear policy

    Robert McNamara, the US defence secretary at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, yesterday described the British and American approach towards nuclear weapons as "immoral, illegal and militarily unnecessary".

May 2003

  • Warning to Bush from contrite cold war veteran

    Robert McNamara, the US defence secretary during the Cuban missile crisis and the first phases of the Vietnam war, has warned of the folly of American involvement in Iraq.

May 2002

  • 'I don't think anybody thought much about whether Agent Orange was against the rules of war'

    Interview: Robert McNamara, Defence Secretary to JFK and LBJ, talks about his crucial role in the Cuban Missile Crisis and explains why his experience in the Vietnam War convinced him of the need for an international criminal court. Even if it could mean his own record coming under scrutiny.
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