However, the newly appointed commander of the 2NZEF, Major General Bernard Freyberg was concerned about the age and command experience of some potential senior officers of the 2NZEF such as Hargest.
This helps, as does a detailed final chapter on his command experience in Bosnia, intended to illustrate the book's theoretical principles.
But in a June 23 memo to the same senior recruiters, Colonel Vangjel expressed disappointment, saying that in the previous several months, the command "experienced a downward production trend".
A graduate (1914) of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, Spaatz served as a combat pilot during World War I and then acquired extensive staff and command experience between 1919 and 1942.
Last month, state news media reported that another air force officer with command experience in the Nanjing region, Gen. Ma Xiaotian, had been promoted to deputy chief of the general staff.
A NATO post would give him additional command experience in an important but less politically contentious region, potentially positioning him as a strong candidate in a few years to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, several military officials said.
We now have an Afghan military team of the highest quality in US Generals Petraeus and McChrystal, recently joined by Britain's new head of the army, General David Richards, the first person to hold that post with actual – and much admired – command experience in Afghanistan.
Soldiers who are simply following the rules of command experience moral anguish as they vacillate between protector and aggressor.
With both Cathcart and Spotswood dead, command of the land forces went to Thomas Wentworth, who had no previous combat command experience.
The job was a challenging one that some of his subordinates felt that Northcott was not up to, given his lack of command experience.
Good fitness reports as commander of Destroyer Squadron 8, based in Philadelphia, resulted in Kinkaid′s promotion to rear admiral in August 1941, despite having no more than two years′ worth of total command experience.
