‘I Made Mistakes’
Aurelie Basha i NovosejtRelease date:February 2019
Language:English
Pages:338
ISBN:9781108234108
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Price:€ 50,71
Speaking to an advisor in 1966 about America’s escalation of forces in Vietnam, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara confessed: ‘We’ve made mistakes in Vietnam … I’ve made mistakes. But the mistakes I made are not the ones they say I made’. In ‘I Made Mistakes’, Aurélie Basha i Novosejt provides a fresh and controversial examination of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara’s decisions during the Vietnam War. Although McNamara is remembered as the architect of the Vietnam War, Novosejt draws on new sources – including the diaries of his advisor and confidant John T. McNaughton – to reveal a man who resisted the war more than most. As Secretary of Defense, he did not want the costs of the war associated with a new international commitment in Vietnam, but he sacrificed these misgivings to instead become the public face of the war out of a sense of loyalty to the President.
Aurelie Basha i Novosejt
Dr. Aurelie Basha completed her undergraduate studies and PhD at the London School of Economics in the International History department and has a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School. She was a Fellow at the London School of Economics and spent several years working in policy and philanthropy, before coming to the School of History at Kent in 2018.
