Alexander launched a three-pronged counteroffensive (232) and was defeated when the force under his personal command failed to advance.
There was unhappiness among the local party rank and file after Labour's central command failed to shortlist any local candidates to fight the byelection.
General Clark's own command failed to foresee that Mr. Milosevic would try to stymie the alliance by expelling thousands of Albanians and creating a refugee crisis.
Major Kranc wrote that "Private Chen didn't need to 'toughen up' or 'require better coping skills' as many Internet commenters have suggested" and that Chen "deserved better, and his chain of command failed him".
Top military officials are still working to determine why the initial reports out of Haditha were false and whether the Marine chain of command failed to properly examine the case.
Questions about whether the American military, under the Trump administration, is seeking to obscure the expanding scope of operations in Africa were raised last week when it was revealed that the United States carried out four airstrikes in Libya between September and January that Africa Command failed to disclose at the time.
German intelligence knew about the code, intercepted those messages and even notified Berlin, but the high command failed to alert the Seventh Army Corps stationed in Normandy.
In this case, a senior member of the chain of command failed to live up to his responsibilities and as such has to pay the price.
Efforts by the French Revolutionary government to remove him from his command failed when his soldiers refused to give him up.
The Daily Telegraph called the book a "a searing indictment of how New Labour, and to some extent the military's high command, failed to properly lead, fund and equip the armed forces for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan".
The presence of the fleet did force the Russians to keep two corps in reserve for coastal defense, but the Ottoman high command failed to make use of its naval superiority in a more meaningful way, particularly to hinder the Russian advance into the Balkans.
