The Pentagon Wars is a 1998 HBO film, starring Kelsey Grammer, Cary Elwes and Richard Schiff, based on a book of the same name.
The film tells of the test and evaluation phase of the troubled development history of the M2 Bradley fighting vehicle as described from the point of view of United States Air Force Lt. Col. James G. Burton who, in real life, chronicled this case in his 1993 book The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard.
Air Force Lt. Col. John Burton was assigned to evaluate the usefulness of the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, an Army troop carrier/scout vehicle that, in its final redesign, was effectively a deathtrap for its occupants. Burton keeps trying to execute a proper live-fire armor test on it but is constantly subverted by his temporary commanding officer, Army Maj. Gen. Partridge, in order to get it under construction and in the field. Written by Jeff Cross
