Sentence examples for Exercise command from inspiring English sources
It is a key element of a comprehensive suite of communications systems to provide a robust network that allows commanders to exercise command and control effectively.
During the short, decisive Prussian campaign against Austria in 1866, field telegraph enabled Count Helmuth von Moltke, the Prussian commander, to exercise command over his distant armies.
The commander of the special operations command shall exercise command of a selected special operations mission if directed to do so by the President or the Secretary of Defense.
Perhaps to assuage the Germans, whose deployment needs approval by Parliament, Mr. Straw also said that Britain would "exercise command" over the international force, and that its mission would be distinct from the American operation.
The willingness of these insurgents to turn against AQI resulted from the presumptuous brutality of AQI when these Sunni tribes resisted their efforts to exercise command and control, force marriages and take over illicit economic activities.
He describes shouting matches with British generals based in London who, he writes, refused to supply him with the equipment he needed, including a helicopter "to fly around a country that was half the size of Europe so I could properly exercise command".
Military communication, the transmission of information from reconnaissance and other units in contact with the enemy and the means for exercising command by the transmission of orders and instructions of commanders to their subordinates.
Instead, the core exercises command and control only over strategy and ideology.This is not a particularly recent development.
An American official in Washington confirmed that the Kyrgyz government was having "trouble exercising command over the security forces".
When not exercising command of a regiment, group, or equivalent formation, a colonel is generally placed in a senior staff or administrative post.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff were formally established as an advisory body by the National Security Act of 1947, and a 1953 amendment to that act prohibited the body from exercising command authority.
