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The McNamara Ascendancy, 1961-1965
Lawrence S. KaplanRonald Dean LandaEdward J. Drea
出版Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2006
主題History / Military / United StatesPolitical Science / ConstitutionsPolitical Science / American Government / Executive Branch
ISBN01607536949780160753695
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MPATAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The McNamara Ascendancy deals with the tenure of Robert S. McNamara and his sometimes turbulent early years of his secretaryship under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. It traces the efforts of McNamara to cut costs and centralize the Pentagon's functions and operations against the backdrop of successive international crises and in the broad context of national security decisionmaking involving the White House, State Department, NSC, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the intelligence agencies. Even as the secretary and the administration were able to put Berlin and Cuba behind them, the problem of how to defend South Vietnam from communist aggression threatened to overshadow McNamara's accomplishments and unravel his unfinished institutional agenda. The deepening commitment in Vietnam dominates the last year of the book, but not before demonstrating McNamara's seminal first four years had fundamentally transformed roles and methods and redefined relationships in the ongoing evolution of the Cold War national security establishment.