Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants military officers to take risks again – and history may be on his side.
A case in point: the day a 31-year-old U.S. Army lieutenant assigned to hunt Mexican rebel general Pancho Villa was ordered to take 10 men and two cars to buy corn.
After dutifully securing the corn in the spring of 1916, 2nd Lt. George Patton went rogue.
He followed a hunch that Villa's second-in-command was holed up in a nearby ranch.
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