The Vietnam War officially ended in 1975. But for millions of Americans who served or had loved ones fighting in that bloody mess, it rages on. One of those Americans is Craig McNamara. Does that name ...

WASHINGTON -- Robert S. McNamara, the brainy Pentagon chief who directed the escalation of the Vietnam War despite private doubts the war was winnable or worth fighting, died Monday at 93. McNamara ...

Walnut farmer Craig McNamara in his barn in Winters, Calif. His father, Robert McNamara, secretary of Defense under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, was a key architect of the Vietnam War.

Robert McNamara was considered one of the brightest stars of his generation. He excelled at Harvard Business School, where he ...

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In “McNamara at War,” the brothers William and Philip Taubman probe the mind of a Harvard Business School technocrat who tried to overhaul the American military. By James Santel He advised three ...

Reticent, McNamara long resisted offers to give a detailed accounting of his role in Vietnam. His son, who had protested the war his father helped to run, once said it was not within McNamara’s “scope ...