TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gregory, Hamilton.
AU  - Hamilton Gregory.
TI  - McNamara's folly: the use of low-IQ troops in the Vietnam War ; plus the induction of unfit men, criminals, and misfits
SN  - 9781495805486
U1  - 959.7043 GRE 
PY  - 2015///
PB  - Infinity Publishing.
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives
KW  - American. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- History.
KW  - Draft -- United States
N1  - Gratis  USD$16.95/-
N2  - In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara were desperate to find additional troops for the Vietnam War, but they feared that they would alienate middle-class voters if they drafted college boys or sent Reservists and National Guardsmen to Vietnam. So, on October 1, 1966, McNamara lowered mental standards and inducted thousands of low-IQ men. Altogether, 354,000 of these men were taken into the Armed Forces and a large number of them were sent into combat. Many military men, including William Westmoreland, the commanding general in Vietnam, viewed McNamara’s program as a disaster. Because many of the substandard men were incompetent in combat, they endangered not only themselves but their comrades as well. Their death toll was appallingly high. In addition to low-IQ men, tens of thousands of other substandard troops were inducted, including criminals, misfits, and men with disabilities. This book tells the story of the men caught up in McNamara’s folly
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