Lessons Learned by Washington Are Familiar Today

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Lessons Learned by Washington Are Familiar Today

AUSA
Friday, June 28, 2019

In the first volume of his “Revolution Trilogy” about America’s war for independence, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Atkinson acknowledges that Gen. George Washington demonstrated “tactical shortcomings as a commander,” but succeeded as a leader whose “great responsibility enlarges him.”

“He readily embodies the sacrifice of personal interest to a greater good, as well as other republican virtues of probity, dignity, moral stamina, incorruptibility—traits that should remain true norths for every citizen today,” Atkinson said at a Lemnitzer Lecture series event hosted June 26 by the Association of the U.S. Army’s Institute of Land Warfare.

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