Their command and control apparatus had been broken and they were incapable of mounting any organized defense of the capital, he calculated.
It was a matter for Nato commanders to make a judgment as to whether the convoy amounted to a legitimate target and was part of the Gaddafi regime's "command and control apparatus", the general added.
During Umoja Wetu, the FARDC-RDF (Congolese/Rwandan) alliance was able to push back FDLR (Rwandan rebels) from some of its key locations, but the military operation suffered from a short time span, logistical bottlenecks and the reported embezzlement of operational funds, and failed to break the FDLR command and control apparatus, which remains intact.
The army and police did little to stem the crisis, giving the impression that much of the high command and security apparatus were lending implicit support to the protests as a means of gaining leverage.
Following Syria's secession, Nasser grew concerned with Amer's inability to train and modernize the army, and with the state within a state Amer had created in the military command and intelligence apparatus.
NATO's common budget to which all allies contribute is actually quite small, about two billion dollars, to keep the command-and-control apparatus operational and run the standing headquarters.
These resources and contextual information are made available to the incident commander and other first responders via networked terminals installed in the fire apparatus and command vehicles [34].
Very little is known of the origin of the second of the great systems of social coordination namely, the creation of a central apparatus of command and rulership.
According to Bassam Bitar, a former Syrian diplomat who now lives in exile in Virginia, Maher al-Assad's control of Syria's security apparatus makes him "first in command, not second in command".
As interior secretary under Carlos Salinas de Gortari, president from 1988 to 1994, Mr. Gutierrez Barrios commanded the entire security apparatus, making him in effect the second-most powerful person in Mexico.
