Hertling, however, exercised little real power, which remained in the hands of the supreme military command headed by Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff.
Early in 1942 the RAF bomber command, headed by Sir Arthur Harris, began an intensification of the Allies' growing strategic air offensive against Germany.
After the fall of the government of Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg during the summer of 1917, the military supreme command, headed by Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, Germany's actual rulers, chose Michaelis to form a new government (July 14 , 1917.
En route to Washington, D.C., carrying dispatches from Frémont, Carson met Gen. Stephen W. Kearny, who pressed him into service as a guide for his command headed for California with presidential orders to take over the region for the United States.
The US soldiers employed by Africom are not there to fight, but to direct; the great hope is that the African Union's forces can be subordinated to a chain of command headed by Africom.
The German officers, even in supreme crisis, adhere to the complex military bureaucracy of their chain of command, headed by the Führer, who takes a sleeping pill the night before the dawn invasion, and is not to be disturbed.
Mr Martin confirmed that Canada could indeed suffer a terrorist attack; such fears should not cause Canadians to shy away from their duties overseas, he said.Under the reforms, the army, navy and air force are to be integrated in six regional commands answering to a single Canada Command headed by an admiral.
Huggins decided in late October 1942 to join a unified Southern African Command headed by South Africa's Jan Smuts.
This legislation prompted the Army to create GHQ Air Force, a centralized, air force-level command headed by an aviator answering directly to the Army Chief of Staff.
The United States had already begun to develop contingency plans for the defense of Saudi Arabia by the U.S. Central Command, headed by General Norman Schwarzkopf, because of its important petroleum reserves.
