The paper is a manifestation of the fundamental importance of the linear program with linear complementarity constraints (LPCC) in disjunctive and hierarchical programming as well as in some novel paradigms of mathematical programming. In addition to providing a unified framework for bilevel and inverse linear optimization, nonconvex piecewise linear programming, indefinite quadratic programs, quantile minimization, and 0 minimization, the LPCC provides a gateway to a mathematical program with equilibrium constraints, which itself is an important class of constrained optimization problems that has broad applications.It is our great pleasure to dedicate this work to Professor Richard W. Cottle on the occasion of his 75th birthday in 2009. Professor Cottle is the father of the linear complementarity problem (LCP) [16]. The linear program with linear complementarity constraints (LPCC) treated in this paper is a natural extension of the LCP; our hope is that the LPCC will one day become as fundamental as the LCP, thereby continuing Professor Cottle's legacy, bringing it to new heights, and extending its breadth. 123 30 J Glob Optim (2012) 53:29-51We describe several approaches for the global resolution of the LPCC, including a logical Benders approach that can be applied to problems that may be infeasible or unbounded.