Amid confusion and chaos, catastrophe is likely San Francisco: In the 2003 documentary “The Fog of War,” Robert McNamara, secretary of defense for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, ...

Errol Morris is one of our country’s finest filmmakers. He makes documentaries that unfold like personal essays, his curiosity about the inevitably contradictory nature of his chosen subject matter ...

At the start of The Fog of War, the brilliant new documentary from director Errol Morris, we see a composed, sharply groomed and middle-aged Robert McNamara, preparing to brief the press on the ...

He discussed similar themes in the 2003 documentary “The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara.” With the U.S. in the first year of the war in Iraq, it became a popular and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A deep and wide-ranging biography of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has won a $50,000 prize.

He was, and many admirable things besides. But he was also the defense secretary from 1961 to 1968 and the architect of what would come to be known as “McNamara’s War” in Vietnam. As Philip and ...

NEW YORK – A deep and wide-ranging biography of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has won a $50,000 prize. Philip and William Taubman's “McNamara at War” is this year's winner of the Barbara ...