Colonel james g burton biography of william
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James Burton (property developer)
British businessman and architect (–)
Lieutenant-ColonelJames Burton (néJames Haliburton; 29 July – 31 March ) was an English property developer. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography identifies him as the most successful property-developer of Regency and of GeorgianLondon, in which he built over properties in acres.
Burton built most of Bloomsbury (including Bedford Square, Russell Square, Bloomsbury Square, Tavistock Square, and Cartwright Gardens), and St John's Wood, Regent Street, Regent Street St. James, Waterloo Place, St. James's, Swallow Street, Regent's Park (including its Inner Circle villas in addition to Chester Terrace, Cornwall Terrace, Clarence Terrace, and York Terrace). He financed, and his company built, the projects of John Nash at Regent's Park (most of which were designed by his son Decimus Burton) to the extent that the Commissioners of Woods and Forests described him, not John Nash, as 'the architect of Regent
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The Pentagon Wars
comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin
The Pentagon Wars is a HBOcomedy film directed by Richard Benjamin based on The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard, a book written by retired United States Air Force Colonel James G. Burton about the development of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
Plot
[edit]The Bradley Fighting Vehicle project, already stalled in development for seventeen years and at the running cost of $14&#;billion is the charge of Major General Partridge. In an effort to curtail further excessive Pentagon spending, Congress appoints U.S. Air ForceLieutenant Colonel James Burton to observe the Bradley's field development and tests.
Burton delves into the extensive and protracted development history, beginning in the s originally under design supervision of then Colonel Robert L. Smith, who quickly becomes frustrated with the continuous change of design by the higher ups, eventually leading to the Bradley being drastically cha
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The Bradley
Colonel James Burton: and a quasi-tank that has less armor than a snowblower, but has enough ammo to take out half of D.C.
&#;A summary of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle
The Bradley Fighting Vehicle, as designed, was a deathtrap. If it were to be sent into combat without significant modifications, it could kill hundreds of its own passengers. So what do you do when the top brass orders you to man it resehandling the tests, so that it can be deployed in the field on schedule and make them look good? Do you make a somber, tragic movie showing the depths to which humanity can sink? Do you do a scathing news exposé of the affair and demand accountability?
No, you man the HBOBlack Comedy spelfilm The Pentagon Wars. The film stars Kelsey Grammer as femte månaden i året. General Partridge, who wants the Bradley in production no matter how much of a liability it is to its