Commander" that "sets the conditions for the successful interrogation and exploitation of internees/detainees".
"Whoever was field commander that day probably had better things to do and just said O.K.," he said.
But it was the arrival of the new, offensive-minded intervention brigade and its tough new Brazilian commander that changed the tenor of the mission.
"We have one military commander that has the responsibility, and that's General Franks down at Centcom, and everybody understands that," General Myers said last week.
He made a reference to Mr. Massoud, the slain alliance commander, that captured the combination of grief, exhaustion and aching hope.
It meant we would have to start dealing with people we had been fighting and for any commander that is a very difficult thing to do.
Historically, the deployment of American forces overseas began with a request from a global combatant commander that was processed through the military's Joint Staff and placed before the defense secretary for approval, in a cautious and deliberate process.
Ultimately to the commander, that suggested deliberateness to the soldier's thinking, and in the end, he was sent home not with a recommendation for treatment but for possible court martial.
And it was a different style of Cobra Commander that had been there before.
