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Originally published in 2006, this volume from the History Office of the Office of the Secretary of Defense provides a narrative history and assessment of the early years of Robert McNamara's tenure as Secretary of Defense, including McNamara's relationship with Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, the transformation of the Department of Defense as a part of Kennedy's New Frontier, and the Pentagon's handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs episode, and onset of the Vietnam War along with other major national security events and developments during a turbulent and momentous period of the Cold War.

The McNamara Ascendancy

History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Volume V

Edward J. Drea

"No one writing on military operations in the Southwest Pacific will be able to ignore this book."?William M. Leary, editor of We Shall Return: MacArthur's Commanders and the Defeat of Japan, 1941-1945 "Adds significantly to our understanding of the war and of MacArthur as commander and strategist."?Stanley L. Falk, author of Bataan: The March of Death "A 'must' item for analysis of the Pacific war."?Harold Deutsch, author of Hitler and His Generals Author Biography: Edward J. Drea is chief of the Research and Analysis Division at the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, D.C., and author of The 1942 Japanese General Election. He is fluent in Japanese. On the Military Intelligence History Reading List 2012.

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