Is there the same fault in the decision making system - political and expert there was in Vietnam.
Defense policy is now being make by small groups without much public debate.
Ideas and information become weapons. There is still an important residual of this conflict in the anti-globalize capitalism displayed today as May 1st demonstrations, and at international meetings. But I found his early chapters on the upbringing of the Bundy boys the most telling. In front of men who had killed for their country in Vietnam, the former Secretary of Defense admitted with icy calm that he had made a mistake. The protesters had been right all along.