But since then, the Coast Guard and the unified command, charged with responding to the oil spill under federal law, have had virtually no oversight or involvement in the project.
The diplomats said the plan to intensify the bombing had been relayed to General Musharraf when he met in Islamabad on Monday with Gen. Tommy R. Franks, commander of the United States Central Command, in charge of the air campaign in Afghanistan, and that General Musharraf had not demurred.
After the battle, a furious Bragg relieved Polk of command and charged him with disobeying orders and dereliction of duty.
After the assassination of President Park in 1979, Chun, as the chief of army security command, took charge of the investigation of his death.
About 20 minutes later, even as hundreds of passengers continued to await rescue, Schettino abandoned his post and left his second in command in charge of the evacuation.
The report, by the Defense Department's Office of Inspector General, said the command in charge, known as the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq, was unable to provide "reasonable assurance" that the money was used to achieve the intended results and that it was not wasted.
Last November, the United States military command in charge of both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars discovered that its computer networks had been purposely infected with software that may have permitted a devastating espionage attack.
U.S. Forces Training Iraqis Have Their Own Shortages The military command in charge of training and equipping Iraqi security forces has less than half of its permanent headquarters personnel in place, despite having one of the highest-priority roles in Iraq.
"We have to realize that the Iraqi opposition has no credibility in the region," said retired Gen. Anthony Zinni of the Marines, who until recently headed the American military command in charge of the Persian Gulf region.
He wrote home to the Australian prime minister, a family friend, and he sneaked off to London to blow the whistle there — in a jingoistic, exaggerated way his son would appreciate — about the incompetence of the British command in charge of the decimation in Turkey, where 120,000 soldiers died, including 8,500 Australian infantry and light horsemen.
Yet details of the battle at Tel Osqof, provided on Wednesday both by frontline participants and the US military command in charge of the war against Isis, suggest that the suddenness and intensity of warfare can erode the distinctions between assistance and combat.
