Maryland Remembers Robert McNamara

LBJ's Defense Secretary - Robert McNamara - has died. He was 93 years old. McNamara led the Pentagon for 7 years during the Vietnam War - and finally came to the conclusion in 1995 that the war was "terribly wrong." The University of Maryland has experts who can talk about McNamara and his times - and look at how the job of defense secretary has changed since the Vietnam War era. All our experts are listed alphabetically. Feel free to contact them directly.

Public Policy Dean Kettl:
"One of the most interesting guys of the last few generations. He was the architect of the Vietnam tragedy, an enormous intellect who struggled ever since to sort out where the well-intentioned strategy went so dramatically off the tracks. He took some of that thinking with him to the World Bank, where the overhang of Vietnam led him to reinvigorate the agency. It was a tragedy of intellect - the king of Kennedy's 'whiz kids,' who analyzed himself and the country into a trip from which neither he nor the nation could escape."

Also: Dr. William Hammond: Senior Lecturer in University Honors; Chief, General Histories Branch, U.S. Army Center of Military History is a resource - he teaches a Vietnam history class in Maryland's Honors Program - email: william.hammond@us.army.mil.

Number of experts found: 5

		Donald F. Kettl Dean School of Public Policy
Expertise Key Words: Public policy and public management with a speciality in the management of public organization; federalism; budgeting; and U.S. politics.
Contact Information:
Work phone(s)     E-mail(s)     301 405 6971 kettl@umd.edu
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		Gar Alperovitz Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy Government & Politics
Expertise Key Words: History/future of nuclear weapons, arms control and disarmament strategies; political-economic issues including state/local responses to globalization, national fiscal crisis, wealth inequality, innovative responses to job outsourcing, social security reform, progressive trade policy
Contact Information:
Work phone(s)     E-mail(s)     (202) 387-8775 garalper@ncesa.org
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		I .M. Destler Professor School of Public Policy
Expertise Key Words: International security and U.S. foreign policy; homeland security agency reorganization; National Security Council; International trade.
Contact Information:
Work phone(s)     Home phone     Cell phone           E-mail(s)     301 405 6357 202-328-9000 703 759 0588 703.408.3447 mdestler@umd.edu
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		Jacques S. Gansler Professor; Vice President for Research Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise
Expertise Key Words: Advanced homeland security and defense technology; defense supply-chain; defense industries; government acquisition
Contact Information:
Work phone(s)     E-mail(s)     301 405 4794 jgansler@umd.edu
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		John D. Steinbruner Director, Center for International Security Studies at Maryland School of Public Policy
Expertise Key Words: Iraq violence:International security, arms control, nuclear weapons proliferation, managing bioterror risk, Russia, Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin.
Contact Information:
Work phone(s)     Home phone     E-mail(s)     301-405-4578 202-244-9142 jsteinbr@umd.edu
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