Pirates grasped that shifting currents and rapidly changing conditions required a nimble organizational response: collaboration as the default and decisive command in time of need.
In the 1990's, Nassau County spent more than $1 million renovating the auditorium at its Police Headquarters in Garden City to be instantly convertible into an emergency command center in times of disaster.
These include introducing a guard-dog corps, reorganizing its patrol system to increase its effectiveness, creating additional police districts, building new stations in older districts, more than doubling its automotive equipment, establishing a community relations division, and putting into operation a communication van that acts as a field command post in times of emergency.
The captain -- the executive branch of these floating democracies -- commanded only in times of battle.
If the power of regulating the militia, and of commanding its services in times of insurrection and invasion, are, as it has been emphatically said, they are, natural incidents to the duties of superintending the common defence, and of watching over the internal peace of the confederacy, these powers must be so construed, as to the modes of their exercise, as not to defeat the great end in view.
Suleiman also conferred upon Ibrahim Pasha the honor of beylerbey of Rumelia, granting Ibrahim authority over all Turkish territories in Europe, as well as command of troops residing within them in times of war.
To seize control of the mission, Mr. Bush would have had to invoke the Insurrection Act, which allows the president in times of unrest to command active-duty forces into the states to perform law enforcement duties.
Especially in times of gladness, we are commanded to consider those less fortunate.
The idea, he said, is to avoid "the ad hoc nature" of past wartime command headquarters, thrown together in time of emergency.
That policy commands the sort of support that usually occurs only in time of war.
