Inmate Central Inmate Central, where civil and family-friendly discourse about off-audio topics (other than religion and politics) is welcome. |
|
In Reply to: The data provided to McNamara by top commanders was deliberately wrong. posted by Rick W on November 21, 2020 at 10:17:18:
Which is true. Willful ignorance is another matter.
The thing about MacNamara is that the principles of the business world can only be applied to winning wars when your opponent is playing the same game, like the second world war. It should have been obvious. It was obvious. It didn't work in Korea. The French tried the same strategy in Vietnam that we did and failed. We had more firepower but that's all.
The generals were only giving Washington the data MacNamara wanted. Body counts, tons of bombs dropped, etc. Those were the metrics that Washington used to measure progress.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Follow Ups
- I think bean's point was that there's nothing wrong with questioning authority. - ghost of olddude55 10:26:16 11/21/20 (2)
- Westmoreland told everybody including McNamara we were winning, knowing it was bs. - Rick W 12:37:20 11/21/20 (1)
- Westmorland was a dolt, but he can't be blamed for what happened in VN. - ghost of olddude55 12:50:43 11/21/20 (0)