1. Breaking Ranks: Robert McNamara, Adam Yarmolinsky, and the Montreal Speech *.
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NovoseJt, Aurélie Basha i
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MILITARY policy ,UNITED States-Vietnam relations ,DEFENSE industries ,CABINET officers ,VIETNAM War, 1961-1975 ,INTERNATIONAL relations -- 1965-1975 - Abstract
The article examines the frustrations that U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara shared with colleagues and confidants at the Office for International Security Affairs (ISA), particularly Assistant Secretary John McNaughton and his deputy Adam Yarmolinsky, as indicated in his speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Montreal, Canada entitled "Security in the Contemporary World," in 1966. In the speech, he talked about the strength of U.S. defense, U.S. policy in Vietnam and the issue of global insecurity to inner-city problems. Furthermore, he talked about his disillusionment with the war in Vietnam. A new perspective on McNamara and his speech is possible by better situating Yarmolinsky in the historiography of the Office of the Secretary of Defense under McNamara.
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- 2019
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