Vietnam Film Series: the Fog of War May 21, 2010

In this documentary -- subtitled 'Eleven Lessons of Robert S. McNamara' -- the former Secretary of Defense organizes his hard-won observations into a list of maxims about war and human error whose cumulative message suggests that during wartime nobody really knows anything. The film incorporates White House tapes of conversations about Vietnam, along with vintage clips from WWII and Vietnam.