One is an operational command, Fleet Command, and the other is a support command, Navy Strategic Command.
State media in the North say Kim Jong-un had operational command of a North-South artillery exchange in November 2010, a skirmish that killed four South Koreans and brought the peninsula to the brink of war.
Dutton led 3 Commando, as well as supporting units from the Royal Engineers, 7 Armoured Division, 16 Air Assault Brigade along with troops from multiple other nations, including US Marines, the first time American troops had been under the operational command of a British officer since the Second World War.
And I have therefore approved the recommendation of Secretary Cheney and the Joint Chiefs to consolidate operational command of these forces into a U.S. Strategic Command, under one commander, with participation from both services.
A peculiar aspect of the command structure was that the airborne attack was solely a Luftwaffe operation; the airborne forces would initially not be under operational command of the German Army.
Although the group of five merchant ships were highly vulnerable to attack and a worthwhile target, Coastal Command came under the operational command of the Admiralty and was bound by its decision to give higher priority to attacking warships than merchant vessels.
In a move that was quietly handled even by the standards of China's secretive military, Beijing last month elevated Gen. Chen Bingde of the army to chief of the general staff, a post where he will exercise day-to-day operational command of the country's 2.3 million-member armed forces.
To prepare for what would now have to be the campaign of 1942, Hitler dismissed a number of generals and assumed himself the strategic and operational command of the armies on the Eastern Front.
22 Special Air Service is under the operational command of the Director Special Forces (DSF), a major-general grade post.
During his visit, Mr. Hagel discussed plans for South Korea to take over by 2015 operational command of its own troops in wartime, which would end an arrangement giving that authority to an American commander.
Both units come under the operational command of HQ Directorate of Special Forces (DSF) and undergo an identical selection process, enjoy significant interoperability in training and on operations.
