The Pentagon Wars
- IMDb link: 0144550
- IMDb rating: 7.1 (6,104 votes) Search
- Genres: Comedy, War
- Director: Richard Benjamin
- Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Cary Elwes, Viola Davis, John C. McGinley and others
- Release date: 28 Feb 1998
- Release year: 1998
- Runtime: 104 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: cover up, hbo, satire comedy, made for tv, army, military, u.s. air force, u.s. army, u.s. department of defense, secretary of defense
Plot
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An officer in the United States military becomes a whistleblower and pushes for survivability testing after corrupt generals in the Pentagon attempt to cover up glaring safety problems with the new Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
In the mid-1980s USAF Lt. Colonel John Burton is tasked with objectively evaluating the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, a project that has been in development for 17 years. The vehicle started off from a simple design but, due to Army meddling and Committee-Think, it has morphed into something different, something potentially sub-optimal. In the interests of saving the lives of US servicemen, he is determined to do his job as effectively as possible but the powers-that-be want him to simply rubber-stamp the vehicle so that production can begin.
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