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The Pentagon Wars is a american film of genre Drama directed by Richard Benjamin released in USA on 28 february 1998 with Kelsey Grammer
The Pentagon Wars (1998)
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Add to a movie listThe Pentagon Wars is a 1998 HBO film, directed by Richard Benjamin, based on a book of the same name (The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard) by Colonel James G. Burton, USAF (retired). Starring Kelsey Grammer, Cary Elwes and Richard Schiff, the film is a dark comedy describing the development of the M2 Bradley fighting vehicle.
Tagline: They aimed to build the ultimate fighting machine. They missed.
Synopsis
U.S. Army Major General Partridge (Grammer) appears before the House Armed Services Committee to defend his recent actions; the story is told mostly as a series of flashbacks:Actors
Kelsey Grammer
(General Partridge)
Cary Elwes
(Colonel James Burton)
John C. McGinley
(Colonel J.D. Bock)
Viola Davis
(Sgt. Fanning)
Olympia Dukakis
(Madam Chairwoman)
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