ABSTRACT
This is a timely moment to consider the career of Robert Strange McNamara and its lessons for strategic culture, the American approach to war, and the relationship between policy and ethics. The former secretary of defense has garnered considerable international attention as a result of his central role in Errol Morris's 2004 Oscar-winning documentary, The Fog of War. His reprise of Vietnam was projected on to silver screens at a time when images of another American military adventure were appearing nightly on our television screens.
