The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/

Has anyone else seen this flick? Best Documentary Oscar nom in 2003.

"Robert S. McNamara discusses his experiences and lessons learned during his tenure as Secretary of Defense under John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. He talks about his work as a bombing statistician during World War II, his brief tenure as president of Ford Motor Company, and the Kennedy administration's triumph during the Cuban Missile Crisis. However, the film focuses primarily on his failures in Vietnam. The theme of the film are his "eleven lessons" learned during this time. Some of these include improving military efficiency, understanding your enemy, and the frustrations of trying to deal with (and unsuccessfully trying to change) human nature."

I thought it was a good flick. Learned a lot about the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam that I didn't know before. Strange parallels between Vietnam and Iraq.

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Yeah, I watched this a while back. I thought it was great.

abomb said:
Learned a lot about the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam that I didn't know before. Strange parallels between Vietnam and Iraq.

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Me too.
 
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