>>196431
>That's retarded
And McNamara was even dumber than the idiots he drafted. He only looked at numbers, thus also giving birth to the McNamara fallacy.
>hiw the fuck do you subjugate a populace
They were assigned handlers most of the time; a higher ranked soldier would ask a lower ranked one if he had a college degree, the lower ranked guy would say "yes" and then he'd have one of McNamaras Morons thrust in his hand to take care of.
>retarded to the point of being unable to reliably operate a gun much less tanks or more complicated tech.
Some of them were reported to be unable to tie their shoes, and/or completely illiterate.