They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.
I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good? - Robert Mcnamara
I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?
- Robert Mcnamara
If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals. - Robert Mcnamara
If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.
The picture of the world's greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny backward nation… - Robert Mcnamara
The picture of the world's greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny backward nation…
One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or… - Robert Mcnamara
One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or…
Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you. - Robert Mcnamara
Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.
The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed. - Robert Mcnamara
The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.
Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality. - Robert Mcnamara
Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.
We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose. - Robert Mcnamara
We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage. - Robert Mcnamara
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
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