Major Jonathan Bratton

And Greene does that to him.

He wears out Cornwallis's army.

He also wears out the British occupying force.

Greene is going to continue in command in the south.

until 1783, he's going to continue fighting sort of a no-win war in the South where this high level of brutality, it's very much almost a civil war there, and he's trying to sort of balance all this as well.

So Greene, yeah, his last three years of the war spent in the South with a very, a really rough situation, doesn't, never has enough troops, never has enough manpower, never has enough supplies.

but manages to pull a victory out of that.

And that, I think, is, to me, that's almost like the stock image of American generalship.

Oh, man.

They're so different.

You've got one who's commanding.

It's got to be Eisenhower.

Conflict.

The scale of conflict increases and the level of American military professionalism increases.

Remember, basically, we didn't really have a war college or professional type of education system for anything beyond war.

really lieutenants and captains until the 1870s, 1880s, really getting into the 1890s and the turn of the century and the professionalism of Secretary of Defense Eli Harout, who really creates what we consider the modern military establishment in the early 1900s.

Prior to that, remember, the revolutionary generation doesn't have West Point.

We sort of go through phases as the military grows up, so to speak.

And then the scale and complexity of warfare

which continues to this day.