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Does acquisition depend too much on assumptions, not enough on accountability?

December 16, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

James Roherty’s classic 1970 book, The Decisions of Robert S McNamara has a pair of interesting discussions on the takeover of systems analysis on military […]

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