The core premise of the McNamara fallacy is not wrong. However, this article makes a critical mistake about the origin. McNamara was not just a business execut

The core premise of the McNamara fallacy is not wrong. However, this article makes a critical mistake about the origin. McNamara was not just a business executive that believed he could take his knowledge to the Defense Department. He was an officer in the Army Air Force Statistical Control office that organized the Air Force during World War II into the successful machine that it became. The fallacy is not that success in business is transferable to war, The fallacy is that the successes in World War II were transferable to Vietnam.