Modern American politics has produced few figures more tragic than Robert Strange McNamara, strategic architect of the most disastrous and divisive military adventure in the nation's history, the ...

Robert Strange McNamara, 44. “In our business,” says Automaker Henry Ford II, “we are lucky if we make the right decision 51% of the time.

During his six-year reign as Defense Secretary, Robert Strange McNamara has done more than enshrine the computer in government. More significantly, he has also cemented civilian control over the ...

Robert Strange McNamara's many critics charge, among other things, that he is stiff-necked, highhanded and deficient in humor. On the last count, at least, the Secretary of Defense recently ...

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 ...

It started as a standard McNamara-style speech: loaded with projections, statistics, computerized comparisons. But as the Secretary of Defense plunged deeper into his oration, the 600 members of ...