NewMexiKen viewed the DVD of The Fog of War this afternoon. The film, which won the Oscar for documentary feature last year, is subtitled “Eleven Lessons of Robert S. McNamara.” It is a fascinating, and frightening, look at war, both World War II and particularly Vietnam. The moral of the story: In war no one really knows what’s happening.
Stephen Holden reviewed the movie in October 2003 for The New York Times. Holden begins:
If there’s one movie that ought to be studied by military and civilian leaders around the world at this treacherous historical moment, it is “The Fog of War,” Errol Morris’s sober, beautifully edited documentary portrait of the former United States defense secretary, Robert S. McNamara.
I encourage all interested students of history to view this very fine film.