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However, although it was fully responsive to the call of futuristic thinkers for an information-age fighting force, it seemed from the beginning like an uneasy fit with the kind of warfare the Army was waging in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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George Goodwin, who has written a book on Towton to coincide with the battle's 550th anniversary in 2011, reckons as many as 75, 000 men, perhaps 10% of the country's fighting-age population, took the field that day.

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To spare it more turmoil, Armstrong was forced to cut ties to Livestrong, the cancer-fighting charity he founded in 1997, the year after he was diagnosed at age 25 with testicular cancer that spread to his lungs and brain.

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