The Pentagon Wars and Bradley requirement growth

Is The Pentagon Wars too misleading to teach anything about the Bradley program?

Its acquisition story is disputed and heavily dramatized. The recollection offered here supports using it to discuss requirement growth while accounting for its Hollywood exaggeration.

A viewer challenges The Pentagon Wars as entertaining but misleading. Alex Clarke recalls a US Army colonel at King's who regarded much of the underlying story as accurate once its Hollywood exaggeration was discounted, although the colonel's precise connection with the program is uncertain. The Bradley began as an infantry transport and M113 replacement, then developed into an infantry fighting vehicle with a 25 mm cannon. The extra capabilities proved useful, but weapons and ammunition changed the original battlefield-taxi concept and reduced room for infantry. Ammunition stowage also differed from the LAV turret, with the Bradley's bins at the sides rather than in the centre. A later objection that the film gives only part of a disputed story is acknowledged.