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May 17, 2004
Movies: The Fog of War
I was very impressed with this film. It really is incredible how many bad decisions were made (or came a hairs breadth from being made [invasion of Cuba]) based on wrong information at the highest level of the most powerful government on the planet. Apparently the people in charge were shocked years later to learn what was really going on on the other side of the issue (mindset of North Vietnamese; presence of warheads and willingness to use them of Castro even if his country became a parking lot if the US invaded). Scary and powerful ****.
I found the historical WWII and Ford motor company McNamara history to also be quite interesting in terms of the statistical approaches brought to bear on things and on the amount that personalities (LeMay in particular) influenced major decisions.
Posted by aarondf at May 17, 2004 12:33 PM
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