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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.
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 ...
The 46 Knox-class frigates were the largest, last, and most numerous of the US Navy's second-generation anti-submarine warfare (ASW) escorts. Originally laid down as ocean escorts (formerly called destroyer escorts), they were all redesignated as frigates on 30 June 1975, in the 1975 ship reclassification plan and their hull designation changed from 'DE' to 'FF'.
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 ...
United Nations S/2009/301 Security Council Provisional 11 June 2009 Original: English France, Japan, Republic of Korea, United Kingdom and Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America:
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.
In 2002 Blair said he had told former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (1961-1968) the previous month that the secret codes (called "Permissive Action Links”) required to launch Minuteman missiles had all been set to OOOOOOOO. McNamara was shocked, because the top military leaders had assured him that those secret codes had been ...
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