At the start of The Fog of War, the brilliant new documentary from director Errol Morris, we see a composed, sharply groomed and middle-aged Robert McNamara, preparing to brief the press on the ...

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 93. McNamara ...

In 2003, filmmaker Errol Morris released the documentary The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara. Taken from a series of interviews Morris conducted with McNamara, the film, ...

On April 30, 1975, the most divisive war in American history came to an end. Or so we thought at the time. The war's painful schisms were personal for me. I am the son of the late Robert S. McNamara, ...

Is it me, or is Robert S. McNamara actually turning into Gollum? I think it's arguably the latter: at age 87, his luxuriant, brilliantined hair thinned to a few scraggily strands still moussed back, ...

Living in Vietnam during the war as a child, I witnessed enough of American military power to know that no ideology or rationale can justify killing more than 3 million civilians. So it is gratifying ...

Former corporate whiz kid Robert McNamara was the controversial Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, during the height of the Vietnam War. This Academy Award-winning ...

Hostility toward a public figure is usually a generational thing, which is why “The Fog of” War will resonate most strongly with audiences of a certain age. A colleague of mine who came to maturity ...

Even before Robert S. McNamara left the Pentagon in early 1968, this man of absolute certainties about almost everything had begun to have nagging doubts about the Vietnam War, about what was widely ...

A New History, a biography by Philip and William Taubman, will do little to change the perception of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara.