As an officer in the Illinois militia James W. Stephenson served in a combat command capacity during the war.
Protestations from Ganteaume and Minister Étienne Eustache Bruix later reduced the degree of criticism Blanquet faced, but he never again served in a command capacity.
A graduate of Annapolis and veteran of 30 years, Captain Brown had amassed a distinguished record commanding submarines and destroyers, but had never commanded a ship the size of Missouri, and had not been to sea in a command capacity since World War II.
The sale, he argued, would give Israel's Arab enemies a heightened command and control capacity in any future war against Israel.
The sale, it is argued, would give China a heightened command and control capacity in any future war against Taiwan, perhaps endangering American soldiers sent to defend Taiwan.
The centre "must have real command and control capacity", says the report, and it should have the best technology available to identify, track and respond to an emerging threat.
"The smartest thing to do, based on experience, would be to allow everything to become very decentralized, create some command, and control capacity that you could do in a guerrilla and insurgency fashion, allow decentralized weapons caches, things like that and allow very loose resistance," said Coombs.
But some of these works are painted with real command, a capacity that can apparently be varied at will.
Behind Rayburn's reflexive charm and his winning air of command lies a capacity for brutality, and a formidable instinct for self-preservation under stress, all gradually and inexorably revealed in Chandler's subtle, intensely psychological performance.
Polls have shown that a majority of voters also believe Mr. Gore is better prepared to be president than George W. Bush in terms of his intellectual capacity, command of the issues and experience.
Trumpeters and saxophonists may be prominent in jazz for some of the same reasons that sopranos and tenors are prominent in opera -- not because they're all outsize personalities, but because their instruments' tonal capacities command the attention of the human ear more forcefully than other horns.
