The Fog of War As stated in “The Fog of War” Robert S.McNamara was an American business executive and the eighth U.S. Secretary of defense. He is also recognized for helping guide the United States into the Vietnam War, which made him an important figure in the controversial figure. He also faced many challenges during the Cuban missiles when the Cuba pointed to the American.Comparing to the current leaders they are causing lots of violence, such as dropping a bomb on the other country without warning and destruction other nation terrorism. On Robert S. McNamara time they had to fight back to the country in order to save their mother country and capture another territory. The eleven lessons are: empathize with your enemy: He served in the army for
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Since his retirement, he has continued to work on problems of poverty, world health, and economic growth. Knowing that we all human made a mistake and cannot understand easily that we had better do our best to remain out of the circumstances.Even though McNamara won an Academy Award for winning the documentary, “The Fog of War.” In the film, he discussed the tough decision making procedure during the Vietnam disagreement as well as his Pentagon duty in the Cuban missile crisis. When a government kills another nation’s people, that's not always seen as a moral problem. Killing in war, and minor crimes in war, are passed on a moral pass or even admire. Proportionality should be a guideline in war. Killing 50% to 90% of the people of 67 Japanese cities and then bombing them with two nuclear bombs is not proportional, in the minds of some people, to the objectives we were trying to achieve. He is saying we should strain to kill only as much as necessary to achieve our objectives. Robert S. McNamara was a first successful person in business, he was the first who become non-family president of the Ford Motor Company, after that as Secretary of Defense, where he applied management methods not seen before in the Defense
Since his retirement, he has continued to work on problems of poverty, world health, and economic growth. Knowing that we all human made a mistake and cannot understand easily that we had better do our best to remain out of the circumstances.Even though McNamara won an Academy Award for winning the documentary, “The Fog of War.” In the film, he discussed the tough decision making procedure during the Vietnam disagreement as well as his Pentagon duty in the Cuban missile crisis. When a government kills another nation’s people, that's not always seen as a moral problem. Killing in war, and minor crimes in war, are passed on a moral pass or even admire. Proportionality should be a guideline in war. Killing 50% to 90% of the people of 67 Japanese cities and then bombing them with two nuclear bombs is not proportional, in the minds of some people, to the objectives we were trying to achieve. He is saying we should strain to kill only as much as necessary to achieve our objectives. Robert S. McNamara was a first successful person in business, he was the first who become non-family president of the Ford Motor Company, after that as Secretary of Defense, where he applied management methods not seen before in the Defense