The Pakistani Army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, met with American military commanders — Gen. James Mattis, the central command leader, and Gen. John R. Allen, the top commander in Afghanistan — for the first time since American warplanes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last November, in a visit that was seen as a first step in clearing the air between uneasy allies.
Chaps are instead praised as "commanding", "leader", and other wonderful manly things.
Some of Mr Obama's closest advisers, probably including Mr Kerry, want to send weapons to boost the Supreme Military Command's leader, General Salim Idriss.
That is notably higher than an estimate of $150 million to $170 million provided by Gen. John F. Kelly, the command's leader, in Congressional testimony on Wednesday.
Walken's fatherly, gently commanding quartet leader is maybe the sweetest, wisest character he has played since his 1962 time-warp dad in Blast From The Past.
While many Americans find Vice President Al Gore's stands on issues more appealing, he is not as well liked or considered as commanding a leader as Gov. George W. Bush, the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll shows.
Criminal impunity for soldiers initially acting under the command of leaders may extend to all perpetrators of sexually violent crimes and tribal or local laws no longer hold the same value in community life.
Less than 5percentt of commanders, command sergeant majors and leaders interviewed said that they had received training on the policy in their units.
Putin, for all of his popularity, is constrained: he cannot, any more than any other contemporary leader, command the economy.
It will be even less defensible should Mr Brown or a future Labour leader command an overall majority in Britain, but not in England.
Here, human survivors are eking out an existence, running short on food and electricity under the command of their leader Dreyfuss (Gary Oldman in bossy, heroic Commissioner Gordon mode).
