Pentagon Wars, a movie centering around the troubled development of the M2 / M3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, is fairly popular in the Armored Fighting Vehicle community. In reading the book written by Colonel James Burton, I think that people should take both the movie and his memoir with a pile of salt. Burton belongs to a think tank group called the "Reformers", which to be quite frank is a lot of people making outdated and misinformed ideas / claims. Burton's recollection of the Bradley program is incorrect and further distorted by the movie.

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Songs used (in order from first to last):
Blade Runner (1997 game, Frank Klepacki) Blade Runner Blues
Halo 3: ODST Rain (Deference for Darkness)

Sources:
The Bradley and how it Got that Way, Technology, Institutions, and the Problem of Mechanized Infantry in the United States Army – W. Blair Haworth

The Pentagon Wars, Reformers Challenge the Old Guard – James Burton

NSIAD8740 Bradley Vehicle: Army's Efforts To Make It More Survivable

NSIAD9294 Operation Desert Storm: Early Performance Assessment of Bradley and Abrams

A182777 Army Acquisition System vs. The Media

Bradley: A History of American Fighting and Support Vehicles R.P. Hunnicutt

Department of Defense Appropriations for 1984

Defense Department Authorization and Oversight Hearings on H.R. 4428, Department of Defense Authorization of Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1987

The Reformers John T. Correll

The Reformers Fred Reed

Army Volume 35 1985

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