WHEN he was a young man, Robert S. McNamara worked as a counselor at a boys camp. Today, as the Secretary of Defense, he is in charge of 4 million people and $175 billion worth of property ...

Suppose you assembled 100 intelligent, public-spirited people experienced with the complexities of managing enormous bureaucracies, deeply familiar with today’s geopolitical challenges, alert to the i ...

Secretary Robert McNamara, prospectively seemed to be a productive tactic. However, the Secretary's ungratifying offer to answer two questions was only outdone in its vacuousness by the questions ...

None of the most pertinent questions directed to TikTok’s critics are being answered, or even acknowledged. There have been ...

John Prados is a senior fellow of the National Security Archive in Washington DC and director of its Vietnam and Iraq Documentation Projects. His current book is Vietnam: The History of an ...

MONTREAL, May 18--Secretary of Defence Robert S. McNamara today proposed that every young person in the United States be required to give two years of service to his country, either in the ...

When it comes to public capacity, what works, for whom, and why? While grappling with these questions and scrolling mindlessly through Econ Twitter, I came across the Robert S. McNamara Fellowships ...

The McNamara Trap — named for the Kennedy-Johnson administration’s Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara — refers to the twin ideas that nuclear superiority is meaningless and strategic ...

The Robert McNamara Fellowship is an effort to disrupt that paradigm. Matching potential researchers in economics from developing countries with researchers in the World Bank’s Development Impact ...