Sentence examples for command the war from inspiring English sources

As with JSOC, McChrystal would command the war and Flynn would run its intelligence shop.

But the president's decision to tap Mr. Petraeus to command the war in Afghanistan, and later picking him to lead the C.I.A., effectively ended lingering concerns among Obama political advisers that the popular general might challenge his commander in chief during the election.

General Petraeus commands the war from a lakeside palace built by Saddam Hussein in 1992.

Last Friday, Gen. Tommy R. Franks, who is commanding the war in Iraq, took time to visit United States forces at Bagram Air Base outside Kabul.

With 18,000 United States Marines now in Helmand, the American generals commanding the war effort have activated a plan to relieve the pressure on the British and increase the challenge to the Taliban, who have fought ferociously to maintain their strongholds along the lush Helmand River valley.

He also claimed to have served in Operation Iraqi Freedom, to have "commanded the war room" at the Pentagon, to be a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to have come under fire while flying over Iraq.

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He commanded two cavalry squadrons and an infantry unit, and his last known battlefield command of the war occurred at James Island, South Carolina, on November 14 , 1782

"This," he comments, "was how the supreme command of the war operated".

"There were no rapes, no torture during my command during the war.

Weeks before they signed the Armistice, Ludendorff and the rest of the German high command knew the war was lost.