“This is lke many of us in Viet Nam who were never taught how to put a bullet or magazine in a rifle and never taught how to shoot a rifle. But we had the MOS of rifleman.”
Good grief! I was in the Navy then and even we went to the range.
McNamara micro-managed the Viet Nam war when I was there. He and LBJ and the Whiz kids really believed that if you throw enough money at a problem you are bound to solve it.
He took that same philosophy to the World Bank/IMF.