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McNamara's Folly

By Hamilton Gregory

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McNamara's Folly

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In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara were desperate to find additional troops for the Vietnam War, but they feared that they would alienate middle-class voters if they drafted college boys or sent Reservists and National Guardsmen to Vietnam. So, on October 1, 1966, McNamara lowered mental standards and inducted thousands of low-IQ men. Altogether, 354,000 of these men were taken into the Armed Forces and a large number of them were sent into combat. Many military men, including William Westmoreland, the commanding general in Vietnam, viewed McNamara s program as a disaster. Because many of the substandard men were incompetent in combat, they endangered not only themselves but their comrades as well. Their death toll was appallingly high. In addition to low-IQ men, tens of thousands of other substandard troops were inducted, including criminals, misfits, and men with disabilities. This book tells the story of the men caught up in McNamara s folly.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
266
Release Date:
2015-05-21
Publication Date:
2015-05-21
Publisher:
Infinity Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1495805484
ISBN13:
9781495805486
Weight:
362 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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