Your country is not the men of history but the men there now. The challenges you need to overcome are not the challenges of the past but novel challenges you need to learn to understand and deal with.

You should learn from history, but you need to innovate new solutions. Whether you succeed in that will determine the future.

You can not keep dreaming about history, hoping you would have heros come save you, show you the way, or even stand by your side. You should understand the men there now. Learn to lead them. Learn to motivate them. Learn to use thier skills to solve modern problems. The problem that the enemy controls media, and the masses don't understand this and are easily manipulated by it.

This is WW3 and it is an information war. How will you design and build your information warfare capabilities? How will you organize in a world under constant surveillance?