The militant confrontation between opponents of the war in Vietnam and one of the engineers of that conflict, Secretary Robert McNamara, prospectively seemed to be a productive tactic. However ...

During the late '60s, many Americans change their opinion of the Vietnam War, gradually becoming opposed to the policies they once supported. What makes McNamara's reversal so remarkable is that ...

South Vietnam to prop up an authoritarian government ... with similar estimates reached by the Vietnamese government and Robert McNamara himself. Up to 500,000 Vietnamese women turned to sex ...

Timothy Naftali, Historian: Maxwell Taylor and Robert McNamara lay out for Kennedy in late 1961 a set of proposals to manage the problem in South Vietnam, and that involves sending troops.

PANO - General Vo Nguyen Giap, a military genius of Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh era, also known as the “Big brother” of the ...

Although it never reached the level of the Hamilton-Jefferson debate, it is clear that factional strife within the Trump ...

Of course, LBJ's and Robert McNamara's highly restrictive rules ... the subsonic MiG-17 would draw "first blood" in the deadly skies over Vietnam; on April 4, 1965, in the first confirmed aerial ...

This week’s White House Report Card shows how an initial weak performance can overshadow everything that happens afterward.

Longtime Veterans Affairs psychologist Dr. Kathleen McNamara retired at the end of March after 27 years of helping local veterans and their families cope with post-combat challenges. -- The Maui ...

Vietnam is a country in south-east Asia ... US Secretary of Defence, Robert McNamara, withheld information about US support of South Vietnamese raids on North Vietnamese radar stations and ...

Author and publisher Peter Osnos talksedabout "LBJ and McNamara," a book-length ... Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's handling of the Vietnam War. American History TV toured ...