Film Analysis: The Fog Of War

Walter Dean Myers touches on a subject that give thought to war in general in his book Sunrise Over Fallujah. Sunrise Over Fallujah focuses on the Iraq war after 9/11 and a young man’s experiences while there. The Historical significance of sunrise Over Fallujah is that the young man, Robin “Birdy” Perry, realizes shortly after arriving in Iraq that this war will not end quickly, and that he doesn’t even really understand why he is there, or why his country, for that matter is there. There is a lot from Sunrise Over Fallujah that relates to real life occurrences and thoughts in and about the war in Iraq.

McNamara Lesson eight: Be prepared to reexamine your reasoning. “What make sense omissions? Have we have a record of omissions, we are the stronger ace in the world.” In these statements, he talks about how The President and all the people who was closed to the president influence him on his decision to go to war.

Filmmaker Errol Morris lays down the story of the United States as seen through the eyes of former business executive and eighth U.S. secretary of defense, Robert S. McNamara. He gives the viewers an inside look of the controversial events that occur during the Vietnam War and other incidents in the 20th century. McNamara highlights his twenty-five years of service and opens up into his eleven lessons of war. To prevent future unnecessary death and conflict.

In the Fog of War, Former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara recounted his experiences when serving for both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Throughout the film he shared eleven lessons that he learned as a result of the war and politics. The lessons range from empathizing with one 's enemy to the fact we cannot change human nature. This essay will discuss some of McNamara’s lessons and how they illustrated institutions, bargaining, cooperation, power and sovereignty.

"We could have been brothers, but they never want us to know that" (Mann, 1979). The 1979 television film All Quiet on the Western Front depicts the story of Paul Bauman, a German soldier fresh out of high school who decided to enlist for World War I. Throughout the course of the film, viewers see the general events of World War I from the eyes of the “losers”, the Germans. Through the use of a German perspective, the portrayal of the horrors of war, and showing the difference of opinions back home and on the front, All Quiet on the Western Front advocates for a more realistic approach for the dramatization of war and learning an unbiased history.

Lippman, T. (2009, July 7). Defense Secretary, Architect of U.D. involvement in Vietnam Robert McNamara dies. The Washington Post. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2009/07/06/AR2009070601197.html

Robert S. McNamara is seen as one of the most influential figures, his reputation is surrounded by many controversies due to his position of Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War. Although, I do agree to the most part with the term "the fog of war", however the blame needs to be placed on all of those who were involved with the decisions that allowed the Vietnam War to escalate. While McNamara admits to many mistakes, he constantly gets defensive during the interview and at the end, he blames the president. As I see it, the Vietnam War did personify the term "The fog of war", the whole war made it confusing and distorted because of their will that allowed them to defeat the French. With the defeat of the French armies made it difficult

The adoption of the Emancipation Proclamation on December 1862 provided the need for free black men as soldiers. Massachusetts would be the first state responding by forming the 54th Regiment. It was the first military unit consisting of all black soldiers to be raised in the North. The formation of the military brought questions and controversies. Many questioned a black man’s ability to fight in the war. Although many were filled with doubts, the men would go on to succeed due to their leader Colonel Robert Gould Shaw who showed everyone that blacks were fighting equals to their white counterparts.

War is often compared to a fog. A weary, unclear, scary life one must live while fighting a war. Tim O'brien falsifies the truth of his time in war. “Sometimes lies are truer than the truth” a direct quote from the story that symbolizes the idea that no matter what objective is planned and executed the truth isn’t definite, it’s a “your guess is as well as mine” situation. This is because in times of war the only clear headed people are those who’ve had their head hollowed out by a fmj. All fogs dissipate eventually, just as wars eventually cease but, while in the midst of the fog it is uncertain what is accompanying the clear off in the distance. The story The Things They carried is representative of this comparison in all aspects and calls

Christine Vavra POSC 305-01 1/21/2015 Insight on the Fog of War The Fog of War is a Sony pictures documentary based on Robert McNamara. Robert served three years in the Army Air Corps, five weeks as the president of the Ford Motor Company, seven years as the Secretary of Defense, and 13 years as the president of the World Bank. Although Robert has many accomplishments, this documentary focuses and highlights his years as the Secretary of Defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon. In hindsight of his career, Secretary McNamara looked back on his career as Secretary of Defense in both a positive and Negative light being truthful to himself and his audience.

On June 1967, officials in the U.S. military headquarters were ordered to collect a history of U.S. strategy toward Vietnam by Robert McNamara, the secretary of defense. Daniel Ellsberg, was an officer hired to work on the project, helped combine a 47-volume archive consisting of 7,000-pages that Ellsberg called "evidence of a quarter century of aggression, broken treaties, deceptions, stolen elections,

The “Lost Battalion” film was a great film about World War One. It showed a lot about the horrors of the war. It also brilliantly depicted the reality of the war.

The lesson that I personally found to be the most interesting was lesson one, which was to empathize with your enemy. This is a lesson that should always be used, yet so rarely is. Throughout history it could have prevented so much bloodshed, and when utilized correctly, it did successfully prevent unneeded death. In the Fog of War film, this lesson is shown in two different ways. One way in which it is successfully used and another way in which it is not used. Empathy was used in the Cuban Missile Crisis. The President of the United States and his advisors attempted to get inside the head of the Russians. By empathizing with them, they were able to come to the conclusion that no one wanted to go to a nuclear war and that it could be

During Errol Morris 's documentary, The Fog of War, Eleven Lessons by Robert S. McNamara former Secretary of Defense McNamara, one of the most infamous figures of the Vietnam era, proves to be a greatly compelling figure, someone who can be self-critical and reflective about the decisions he made to

Through quality production and cinematography aired on BBC3, “Our World War”, a mini-series persisting of only three episodes, is able to demonstrate the brutality and emotional/emotionless mentality that had occurred within that time period. In “Our World War”, specifically episode one (which may act as a movie due to its length) enacts the first battle Britain had combated with the Germans in World War One, as an emotional distraught instant for the British soldiers rather than the emotionless killing of countless German men, marching uninterrupted into machine gun fire. This was the Battle of Mons. Nevertheless, the screenplay represent actual history through real captured footage of the Battle of Mons, having the letters/testimonials