When George Washington was put in charge of the army and tasked with beating the British, he had three major problems.
The first one was that the British were considered invulnerable,
having overwhelmingly proven their power in many nations and continents.
The second problem was that the officers in the American army wanted
the special privileges enjoyed by their British counterparts.
As Americans, they disliked the aristocratic class system. As
officers, however, they wanted to be the aristocrats of the army, with
all the perks and benefits.
Washington's third major problem was that...