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Rolling thunder: The rerun

Kenney, George | June 14, 1999 issue

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The article discusses the book "Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy," by Robert S. McNamara. There are certain similarities between the U. S. led NATO war against Yugoslavia and the Vietnam experience of the United States. Robert Strange McNamara, Secretary of Defense of the United States from 1961 to 1968, argues that the war was always unwinnable for the United States, that it should have ended long before it began and that, throughout, both sides missed countless opportunities to find mutually satisfactory, negotiated outcomes. The incredible attendant tragedy was foremost a moral failure, then, not merely a technical failure of state craft.

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MCNAMARA, Robert S., 1916-2009; ARGUMENT Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy (Book); WAR; UNITED States; VIETNAM; YUGOSLAVIA

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