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  2. Project 100,000 - Wikipedia

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    Project 100,000, also known as McNamara's 100,000, McNamara's Folly, McNamara's Morons, and McNamara's Misfits, [1] [2] was a controversial 1960s program by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to recruit soldiers who would previously have been below military mental or medical standards.

  3. McNamara fallacy - Wikipedia

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    McNamara's interest in quantitative figures is also seen in Project 100,000 aka McNamara's Folly: by lowering admission standards to the military, enlistment was increased. Key to this decision was the idea that one soldier is, in the abstract, more or less equal to another, and that with the right training and superior equipment, he would ...

  4. Robert McNamara: The high cost of cold-blooded analysis

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    Early Monday morning, Robert Strange McNamara, one of the most divisive figures in American political history, died at his home in Washington. He was 93. As millions note (if not mourn) the death ...

  5. Robert McNamara - Wikipedia

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    Robert Strange McNamara (/ ˈ m æ k n ə m ær ə /; June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War.

  6. Robert McNamara waged war on Vietnam. His son is a ... - AOL

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    McNamara was a Camelot cabinet kid; he played with Caroline and John-John, hung out at the pool with Robert F. Kennedy’s children at their Hickory Hill estate and sat with JFK for a screening of ...

  7. Send Mary McNamara's column to Congress and the Supremes

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    Mary McNamara’s column should be required reading for the five Supreme Court judges who seem to have signed on to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Helen Lotos. Corona del Mar::

  8. Whiz Kids (Department of Defense) - Wikipedia

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    Whiz Kids was a name given to a group of experts from RAND Corporation with which Robert McNamara surrounded himself, in order to turn around the management of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) in the 1960s.

  9. Why Trump can't use the 'idiot' defense other Jan. 6 ... - AOL

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    While other Jan. 6 defendants and their lawyers have argued that they participated in the Capitol riot due to stupidity, Donald Trump would have a hard time succeeding with that argument in court.