http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dereliction_of_Duty_(1998_book) “Colonel H.R. McMaster, 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment, wrote Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam. The book took 5 years to research and was completed in 1997 as a part of McMaster’s Ph.D. thesis at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Much of the book details the lies and manipulation perpetrated by Robert McNamara and U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson’s staff who were more concerned with political victories in the US, than military victories in South Vietnam. In his opinion, the military, particularly the Joint Chiefs of Staff, offered little to no help in charting a successful plan of action to pacify a Viet Cong insurgency in the south, nor did they provide a coherent set of military objectives to be attained against the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), Viet Cong (VC), or any of the military and political infrastructure north of the 19th parallel.”
I seem to recall the same title pertaining to a Bill Clinton book also?