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Robert McNamara
Robert Strange McNamara
(June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth
Secretary of Defense
, serving from 1961 to 1968 under
Presidents
John F. Kennedy
and
Lyndon B. Johnson
, during which time he played a major role in escalating the United States involvement in the
Vietnam War
. Following that, he served as President of the
World Bank
from 1968 to 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of
systems analysis
in
public policy
, which developed into the discipline known today as
policy analysis
. McNamara consolidated intelligence and logistics functions of
the Pentagon
into two centralized agencies: the
Defense Intelligence Agency
and the
Defense Supply Agency
.
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