Classics and Religious Studies, Department of
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
November 1976
Abstract
We celebrate this year our nation's "birthday," but 1976 is also the bicentennial of what General Washington, a master of understatement, as well as, as we shall see, a master of strategy, called an "unhappy predicament." The commander-in-chief's solution to the predicament was the strategy that won the war, and put the United States on the way towards being a real country. This solution was the thoroughgoing adoption of Fabian strategy. Looking into what this was, and how Washington made it work, permits a better appreciation of Washington's real stature in military history.
Comments
Published in THE CLASSICAL BULLETIN Volume 53 (November 1976).