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Press photo kelsey grammer and richard benjamin on the set. The pentagon wars is a film, based on a true story, about the bradley, a military vehicle, and colonel burton, the man who finally made congress aware of the potential hazards of the tanks design. Burton cary elwes protests government waste and poor decisions in the development of a troop carrier. The film depicts the development of the bradley fighting vehicle. But given how vehemently reformers savaged the pentagon for refusing to face the faults of its dogma, its unfortunate to see a reformer do the same. The comedy the pentagon wishes wed forget war is boring. Pentagon wars how the bradley fighting vehicle was created. Legendas the pentagon wars legendas portuguese br 1cd srt. In the early 1980s, air force colonel james burton was part of a group of reformers who, frustrated by billions wasted on needless research and development, attempted to change how the military did business.
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