The unusually close relationship between subject and biographer was no secret by the time President Obama nominated Petraeus as CIA director in the summer of 2011 following his command year in Kabul.
"Go home, Carrie," she commanded, "Years ago, I raced with shin splints, got a stress fracture and a broken tibia.
Before the question was even asked, Jeffrey Tambor had the answer ready, on command after years of inquiry.
What if John Kennedy would have lost that 1960 election and Richard Nixon had assumed command 8 years earlier?
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)- Commander Richardson (Gable) is a career Navy officer who wrangles one last command a year after his last sub was torpedoed in Japan's perilous Bungo Straits.
Computers have been able to recognize basic voice commands for years: "recycle," "copy," "underline" and even "sleep".
In 1966, though, the precursor to the Socialist Party moved a censure motion in Parliament after de Gaulle pulled out of the NATO military command that year.
Still, the $4.4bn price tag is a bargain compared to what AOL commanded 15 years ago in its disastrous merger with Time Warner, which ended in a $99bn write-off.
Earlier in his military career, the general was responsible for some 92,000 troops ready for assignment to hot spots including Bosnia and Somalia, and he adopted a policy of having a personal interaction with everybody under his command every year.
Elite players like LeBron James and Kevin Durant can command five-year contracts next summer worth more than $200 million.
