McNamara’s advisers thought that all issues could be solved via investigation and statistics.

McMaster portrays McNamara’s version of events as bigheaded, uninformed and shallow policy puppets who believed that they understood the Vietnam War more than the U.S army and hence they disregarded the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s input nearly in all key policy resolutions on the Vietnam War. He thus exonerates the defense secretary’s story from the blame. The author points out that it was due to the foolishness and lies of President Johnson’s government actions that the country got sucked in the unwinnable war. As a result of this disagreement, America’s leadership cheated its citizenry that it was good for the United States military to be directly involved with the Vietnam War. Robert McNamara, as well as the then Joint Chiefs of Staff on the war policy (P. One key factor that led to this loss as a consequence of the Vietnam War, as the writer observes, was the disagreement between the then US President Mr. During this period, the Johnson government made a variety of disastrous resolutions that led to the commitment of the United States ground armies that led to more than 50,000 deaths in the subsequent decade. It is a detailed personal account of what happened from 1963 to 1965 the period of war. “Dereliction of Duty” is a very detailed analysis of military strategies at the formative stages of the Vietnam War. These are some of the most important topics that will be discussed throughout the paper. He uncovers who made these resolutions and their intentions and as such he challenges earlier hypotheses by historians and pretexts of the key players on what led the U.S to be directly involved in this unwinnable War. McMaster argues that there were several contributing factors that led the United States to direct military involvement in the Vietnam War. McMaster talks about how U.S direct involvement in Vietnam War was due to the crucial role played by the civilian leadership and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In this book, the writer identifies the policies and resolutions made by key officials of President Johnson’s administration that led America to be sucked into the War. This book is comprehensive and well-studied personal accounts of vital meetings, conflicts and resolutions of what occurred and the reasons why they occurred. In the book “Dereliction of Duty” H.R.McMaster provides us with a stunning examination of the reasons why the U.S became absorbed in the Vietnam War.

Dereliction of duty by hr mcmaster