A implies B

No less than George Washington was denied a commission in the British Regular Army as a young man because he was seen by British elites as a more spectacular example of "the incompetent provincial soldier." It wasn't simply that American colonists couldn't cut it professionally, in this view, it was that those who ran and served in the British Regular Army were, don't you know, just so much smarter than their American-born subjects. Stooopid Ricains.