This year, the U.S. Army celebrates a major milestone. For 2½ centuries, the Army has answered the call to defend this nation.

Can today’s senior leaders learn much from the U.S. Army’s origins 250 years ago?

At the outset of the War of Independence, an American Army was nonexistent.

The U.S. Army came into being by act of the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia on June 14, 1775.

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