It is a place of multiple individual narratives unfolding simultaneously, of shifting identities and genders, of triumphant consumerism, and of young people yakking maniacally into cell phones, breaking windows and furniture, and saying things like "The world ended three weeks ago, starting now," or "I exist because of Command V. . . .
This state of affairs has emerged in part because of command and control fisheries policies that neglected the importance of the behavior of the fishing fleet itself.
Despised and mocked around the world, and here at home, his history-making disapproval rating has impacted his legacy because his lack of command over the media leads to the tidal wave of speculation and pontification by talking heads and political "experts" who have been allowed to define his presidency to mean pretty much whatever they think it means.
Mr. Gade said he relieved Col. Henrik Flach, the head of the country's 496-member unit in southern Iraq, from command "because of lack of judgment".
has fought passionately to remove sexual assault cases from the chain of command because victims have testified that they do not trust their commanders to handle those cases effectively without retaliating.
As the Academy-Award nominated documentary The Invisible War chronicled all too painfully, from a remote post in Alaska to the elite Marines at the White House, people are afraid to report within their chain of command because they have seen others suffer reprisals, recrimination, abuse and because they fear their adjudicator will not be impartial.
It will be under the American chain of command, because the wider military operation is still under way in Afghanistan.
"He was concerning me in spring training, only because of his lack of command, and he showed that again tonight," Torre said.
"It was because of the chain of command saying we're not going to pass on information -- if something goes wrong, we'll get blamed," he said.
There is an assumption that sexual assault has to be taken out of the chain of command because that is where you find senior men in positions of authority over subordinate women, and always will.
Speaking of the Americans, he said: "They need to reintroduce dialogue as a tool of command because, although it is easy to speak to Americans face to face and understand each other completely, dealing with them corporately is akin to dealing with a group of Martians.
