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Jan 23, 2004 · The movie makes it clear that no one was thinking very clearly, and that the world avoided war as much by luck as by wisdom. And then he remembers the years of the Vietnam War, inherited from JFK and greatly expanded by Lyndon Johnson.
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara is a 2003 American documentary film about the life and times of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, illustrating his observations of the nature of modern warfare.
- The Fog of War Documentary
- Secretary Mcnamara's Role in The Vietnam War
- The Vietnam War as A Proxy War
- The Cold War as A Bipolar System
- The Cold War as A Security Dilemma
- McNamara: A Bad Reputation
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In the fog of war, there is uncertainty surrounding every situation, and there is little room for mistakes involving split-second decisions. Far too often, miscalculations are realized in hindsight, and leaders regret the course of action taken. One such leader, Robert McNamara, recounts his experiences as Secretary of Defense from 1968–91 in the d...
The American involvement in the Vietnam War is seen as one of McNamara’s blunders; however, many of his eleven lessons were revealed to him as this crisis played out. His critics see him as a tragic character who should have heeded public opinion and removed the United States from the conflict, although they were not in his shoes, and from a realis...
The civil war in Vietnam was a vehicle for the world's two superpowers to protect their respective political ideologies. The United States' withdrawal and the subsequent reunification of Vietnam after a Northern Vietnamese victory have allowed Vietnam to remain a socialist state, espousing communism to this day. The Vietnam War is infamous for cult...
The realist view of the Cold War emphasizes the stability of a bipolar system as it approaches the “Leviathan,” or Hobbes’s idea described on page 258 of Essentials of International Relationsthat “so long as a single man (or state) was not more powerful than all the others combined, human beings would be forced to live in a climate of war.” The two...
The Cold War is a prime example of the Security Dilemma, defined by Essentials of International Relationson page 251 as a situation in which “even actors with no hostile or aggressive intentions may be led by their own insecurity into a costly and risky arms race.” While neither side was making land grabs or invading the other state’s territory, th...
McNamara is generally labeled as the architect of the Vietnam War and thus carries a bad reputation following his term as Secretary of Defense. Up until his death, he sought to restore his public image and not allow his mistakes to define him. To his credit, his memoir and appearances in documentaries such as this one have perpetuated his wisdom so...
Watch The Fog of War Online - FreeDocumentaries.Org The "Fog of War" is a journey into the nature of warfare and the task of making military decisions that carry both immediate and long-term signif...
Mar 8, 2004 · A brilliantly crafted documentary about American war criminal Robert McNamara. Moving and insightful.
The Fog of War - A Review. Conventional wisdom used to have it that an Oscar was worth an extra million dollars in box office receipts. But that was a decade or two ago, and probably applied only to mainstream feature films. I saw veteran documentary filmmaker Errol Morris's latest work, "The Fog of War," two days after it won the 2004 Academy ...
In the fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, Dr. Death) interviews the now 86-year old Defense Secretary in an effort to come to terms with what led to the quagmire of Vietnam and reveals a more complex, even strangely sympathetic man.
Metascore. Errol Morris may have been put on earth to make The Fog of War, a stunning portrait of Robert S. McNamara that closes a year of outstanding nonfiction movies on a high note. This is spellbinding reality cinema about duplicity and, worse, ignorance at the highest level.
