The Pentagon Papers, officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and militar
Shortly after their release in June 1971, the Pentagon Papers were featured on the cover of Time magazine for revealing "The Secret War" of the United States in Vietnam.
As laid out by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, the Chinese containment policy of the United States was a long-run strategic effort to surround Beijing with the USSR, its satellite states, as well as: The Japan–Korea front, The India–Pakistan front, and The Southeast Asia front
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower greets South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem, whose rise to power was backed by the United States, according to the Pentagon Papers
The body of President Diệm after he was assassinated in the 1963 South Vietnamese coup, which was backed by the United States government
Robert Strange McNamara, also known by his initials RSM, was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under preside
Pentagon Papers
…In June 2011, the documents forming the Pentagon Papers were declassified and publicly released. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara created the Vietnam Study Task Force on June 17, 1967, for the purpose of writing an "encyclopedic history of the Vietnam War". McNamara claimed that…
McNamara in the Harvard Business School yearbook, 1938
McNamara visited Jakarta, Indonesia during his tenure as World Bank president in 1968.