The McNamara ascendancy, 1961-1965 / Lawrence S. Kaplan, Ronald D. Landa, Edward J. Drea.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Lawrence S., author.

Landa, Ronald D. (Ronald Dean), 1940- author.

Drea, Edward J., 1944- author.

Contributor:

United States. Department of Defense. Historical Office, issuing body.

Series:

History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense ; v. 5.

History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McNamara, Robert S., 1916-2009.

McNamara, Robert S.

United States. Department of Defense--History.

United States.

United States. Department of Defense.

United States--Politics and government--1961-1963.

United States--Politics and government--1963-1969.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 664 pages) : illustrations.

monochrome.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2006.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The McNamara Ascendancy deals with the tenure of Robert S. McNamara and his sometimes turbulent early years of his secretaryship under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. It traces the efforts of McNamara to cut costs and centralize the Pentagon's functions and operations against the backdrop of successive international crises and in the broad context of national security decisionmaking involving the White House, State Department, NSC, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the intelligence agencies. Even as the secretary and the administration were able to put Berlin and Cuba behind them, the problem of how to defend South Vietnam from communist aggression threatened to overshadow McNamara's accomplishments and unravel his unfinished institutional agenda. The deepening commitment in Vietnam dominates the last year of the book, but not before demonstrating McNamara's seminal first four years had fundamentally transformed roles and methods and redefined relationships in the ongoing evolution of the Cold War national security establishment.

Contents:

McNamara and the new frontier

Shakeup in the Pentagon

Expanding the FY 1962 budget

The FY 1963 budget : introducing the PPBS

Congress and the FY 1963 budget

The FY 1964 budget

Berlin : the wall

The Bay of Pigs fiasco

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Laos

Vietnam : reluctant engagement, 1961-1963

Flexible response

The Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

NATO relations : transatlantic differences

MLF : a notion too far

The embattled Military Assistance Program

The search for savings

Tightening the budget : FYs 1965 and 1966

Vietnam : into the vortex

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed June 18, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 630-649) and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

Other Format:

Print version: Kaplan, Lawrence S. McNamara ascendancy, 1961-1965

OCLC:

682421912

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