When was the term "crisis management" coined?

Dear bie-ga;

Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting
question. The term is first attributed to the Kennedy Administration?s
Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara:

In a self-congratulatory statement before Congress in 1962, McNamara said:

?Today there is no longer such a thing as strategy; there is only
crisis management.?

Cited (from Congressional testimony) in Coral Bell, The Conventions of
Crisis (London: Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 2.

CRISIS MANAGEMENT: A PRIMER
http://www.israeleconomy.org/strategic7/crisis.htm



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