How a Perpetual Desire for Innovation and Thinking ‘Outside the Box’ Led William P Yarborough to Create the Green Berets

In the rigid world of military tradition, true innovators are rare. Even rarer are leaders who respect tradition yet willingly break with convention when the mission demands it. Lieutenant General William Pelham Yarborough was one of those men—a visionary whose creativity, intellectual curiosity, and willingness to challenge orthodoxy when circumstances required, helped define the identity…