Was it autism?

>>1449641
McNamara was basically a giant autist. He was a logistics man, who could calculate how to produce cars the best or calculate where to hit to destroy German industry the fastest. What he couldn't calculate however, was how to break the will of a few thousand starving Vietnamese Peasants.

>>1449641
Also, anybody who parts their hair that carefully is clearly autistic.

>>1449641
Pls respond

>>1449641

McNamara was definitely right about some things and definitely wrong about some other things.

The way he handled Vietnam was just terrible.

The reforms he made to the military as a whole were generally pretty good.

But the stuff in Vietnam was just awful.

>>1449641
>muh pure hard numbers
yes, definitely autism.

>too smart for American public
M-muh autism

Sounds right with how Americans treat their intellectuals with disdain

>>1450524
if he was so smart how come he couldn't unfuck Vietnam?
>muh k/d ratio
>muh tonnage of ordnance dropped
A U T I S M

>>1450531
You believe dropping more troops and indiscriminately bombing everything would've fixed it?

Explain your fix

>>1450538
No, I'm saying the opposite.

>>1450548
He was fired for suggesting the US should back off.

If you're talking about early war phase, stop. It's called fog of war for a reason.

>>1450568
>not even bothering to learn about the context surrounding the war
>focusing on abstract numbers like body count and meaningless ratios

The man was the definition of an autist