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Bookmark or Share- Biography of Robert McNamara, Vietnam War Architect - ThoughtCoRobert S. McNamara (June 9, 1916–July 6, 2009) was a secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense in the 1960s and the chief architect and most vocal defender of the Vietnam War. He spent his later years as an elder statesman, apologizing for an escalation of the conflict that became known as "McNamara's War."
- MacNamara - WikipediaMac Conmara (anglicised as MacNamara or McNamara) is an Irish surname of a family of County Clare in Ireland. According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the MacNamaras were one of the chiefly families of the Dal gCais or Dalcassians who were a tribe of the Erainn who were the second wave of Celts to settle in Ireland between about 500 and 100 BC .
- How Robert McNamara Came to Regret the War He EscalatedVietnam was a war the Americans couldn’t win and Robert McNamara couldn’t make peace with. In April 1964, a U.S. Senator described Vietnam as “McNamara’s War.” Robert McNamara himself, in the...
- Robert S. McNamara | Biography, Facts, & Role in Vietnam War - BritannicaRobert S. McNamara (born June 9, 1916, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died July 6, 2009, Washington, D.C.) was the U.S. secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 who revamped Pentagon operations and who played a major role in the nation’s military involvement in the Vietnam War.
- How Robert McNamara Came to Write His Memoirs About Vietnam - TIMEIn an explosive memoir in the 1990s Robert McNamara started trying to explain the Vietnam War. His publisher explains how it happened.
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