Analysis Of The Film 'The Fog Of War'
“The Fog of War” documentary highlights the experiences of Robert McNamara as the U.S. Secretary of Defense during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson. The film covers McNamara’s involvement in World War 2, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War with regards to his position and the lessons he’s learned after being put into the century’s most conflicting situations. McNamara implements these lessons into the historical wartime occurrences in the U.S. he’s able to witness and thoroughly explains the actions (and the rationale behind these actions), taken by the U.S. towards nations overseas. The significance of the lessons he suggests in using when facing foreign policy issues pertain to skills and strategies that
should be considered in order to weaken and defeat the adversary, such as empathizing with the enemy, maximizing efficiency, and gathering data. He notes that the main foreign policy issue confronted by the U.S. during his time of office was communism and the potential spread of communism to other parts of the world, eventually becoming the cause of U.S. intervention in Europe, Vietnam, and Cuba. Aside from the strenuous amount of work and effort McNamara put in to protect the United States from international threats, the film also displays how he came to be. He tells of how he began as a military officer during World War 2 to the President of the Ford Motor Company and finally as the U.S. Secretary of Defense for seven years. The story of Robert McNamara exhibits his eagerness to do good for the country of the U.S. and embeds an imperative impact on U.S. foreign policy history.
should be considered in order to weaken and defeat the adversary, such as empathizing with the enemy, maximizing efficiency, and gathering data. He notes that the main foreign policy issue confronted by the U.S. during his time of office was communism and the potential spread of communism to other parts of the world, eventually becoming the cause of U.S. intervention in Europe, Vietnam, and Cuba. Aside from the strenuous amount of work and effort McNamara put in to protect the United States from international threats, the film also displays how he came to be. He tells of how he began as a military officer during World War 2 to the President of the Ford Motor Company and finally as the U.S. Secretary of Defense for seven years. The story of Robert McNamara exhibits his eagerness to do good for the country of the U.S. and embeds an imperative impact on U.S. foreign policy history.