Don Wildman

is due to Eisenhower both as a general and a politician.

It's outrageous what this guy pulls off, and he does not get the credit where it's due.

So for the next general, let's step back

in time to the American Revolution.

But no, not the obvious general you think I'm going to talk about.

But rather, I'd say the fighting Quaker, Nathaniel Green from Rhode Island.

OK, this is surprising to me that he landed on my list of four.

Anyway, what sets Nathaniel Green apart?

All the way through.

Washington is credited with being, we're not going to win this as much as we're going to hold our own in this battle.

I wonder how much of that comes from Nathaniel Green, who until recently, I really didn't understand, played such a role in that vision.

Yeah.

It's kind of a two-part story for Greene in the Revolution.

He's, in the beginning, quartermaster.

He is fighting at the beginning, but he becomes more of a logistics guy for Washington.

Washington, but later he takes over more of a Southern command, right?

And he applies everything that he's learned about sort of hit and run kind of tactics.

You know, his phrase was, we fight, we get beat, rise and fight again.

And that was the general strategy for this whole war, really, but winning by losing.

His most famous battle, Guilford Courthouse, 1781, late in the war.