Governments regularly claim that they want to end the command and control regime that has been the dominant organisational model for the past 68 years.
Alawite officers commanded the regime's shock troops when the first protests broke out in March 2011 — jailing, torturing and killing demonstrators and setting Syria on a different path from all the other Arab uprisings.
Officials in Paris and London say they believe it will prove more effective to destroy Libyan regime command and control centres than to arm the poorly-organised Benghazi-based rebels, as several other countries are demanding.
Compaoré served as minister of state at the presidency (1983 87), essentially making him second in command in the regime, and also as minister of state for justice (1985 87).
Benoist's writing often echoes left-wing thinkers, especially the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, who wrote of "hegemony" — or the command that a regime can wield over a population by controlling its culture.
As a result, despite Putin's command of the regime, his control of the media, and his intolerance of political dissent, ideas and historical perceptions vary quite widely — and the centenary has made plain to what extent Russia is not an ideological monolith.
In one such report, discreetly copied to Nuon Chea, the second in command in the regime, a Khmer Rouge prison guard gave an itemized account of the steps taken to torture Man San, one of the thousands of Cambodians killed at Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh.
In spite of its wide application, Command-and-Control regimes (C&C regimes) are often referred to as disappointing approaches to resource management.
The Mahdists rose to prominence during the successful Sudanese wars and theocratic regime commanded by al-Mahdī from 1881 until his death in June 1885.
"An endangerment finding from the EPA could result in a top-down, command-and-control regime that will choke off growth by adding new mandates to virtually every major construction and renovation project," said Thomas Donohue, the chamber's president.
