Fog of War: Errol Morris and Robert McNamara Discuss Military Failures
An intelligent person takes appropriate actions to effectively plan for future activities and postulate for any scenarios that would cause problems. A wise person not only reviews those plans and subsequent actions following the prescribed events, but they apply those lessons at future engagements. Fog of War (2003), from Academy Award winning documentarian Erol Morris, is a film comprising multiple interviews with Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (1961 – 1968) for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Not known to be either humble nor admitting his failures, Fog of War was released 6 years before McNamara’s death at…