On 9 June the Allied ground forces commander, General Bernard Montgomery, revised Operation Perch to be a bigger attack with a pincer movement to surround the city.
"The president of the republic is the supreme commander of the armed forces and the minister of defense is the general commander of the armed forces," the revised declaration said.
But Mr. Bush's slowdown orders have already forced military commanders to begin revising optimistic budget proposals downward.
But Mr. Bush vetoed that legislation, arguing it would tie the hands of military commanders in Iraq, and then submitted the revised and ultimately successful version.
The TTZ was revised in May 1936 by Admiral Orlov, Commander of the Soviet Navy, reducing speed to 30 knots, and weakening the secondary and anti-aircraft batteries.
At the insistence of House Republicans, the latest measure was revised to include a statement praising Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of American troops in Iraq.
He suggested that the tenets of a revised theory apply not only to governments, traditionally represented by commanders and heads of state, but also to individual soldiers.
"Having now had the opportunity to review progress one week on I have revised my estimate of the number of likely victims to be about 60," said Commander Peter Spindler, head of the Met's specialist crime investigations.
But even the initial plan for Operation Anaconda had to be rapidly revised, senior military officers said, when Gen. Zia Lodin, one of three Afghan commanders, backed away.
Eight days after the attack on the Cole killed 17 sailors, this clearer and significantly revised account of the bombing is beginning to emerge, according to administration officials, Navy commanders and some of those aboard the Cole that day.
