The decision was apparently eased by a surprise message of support from commanders of some of the biggest rebel groups fighting on the ground, who had been summoned by their international sponsors to a parallel meeting in Ankara, the Turkish capital.
In another blow to the authority of the Free Syrian Army, following Col Okaidi's resignation, commanders of some of Syria's largest rebel brigades have been meeting in Turkey to discuss forming a new Islamist military grouping.
Some, including the high-ranking commanders of some groups, have already returned to the bush, making it becomes more and more difficult to contain the ranks.
The commander of some of the shogunate's forces turned and attacked Kamakura instead of the shogunate's enemies.
Gen. James N. Mattis, the commander of some 4,000 marines who had arrived in the Afghan theater by now.
By afternoon, after a barrage of shells battered the hills around him, Mr. Jaffar and his cousin, Harun, the commander of some of his troops, offered to surrender, contacting the Northern Alliance general, Khalil Anderabi, by walkie-talkie.
Leigh-Mallory thus became the commander of some 9,000 U.S. and British aircraft allotted to this operation, and he found himself in the middle of numerous debates about how best to use aircraft to assist in the invasion.
As Bury comments, the expedition's fate might have been quite different "if Belisarius had been opposed to a commander of some ability and experience in warfare", and points out that Procopius himself "expresses amazement at the issue of the war, and does not hesitate to regard it not as a feat of superior strategy but as a paradox of fortune".
Far from stripping commanders of accountability, as some critics have suggested, removing prosecution decisions in sexual assault and other serious crimes from the chain of command would not undermine discipline or end commanders' responsibility to set the proper climate.
Our teams spend a good amount of their time in Darfur negotiating the movement of ambulances through checkpoints manned by commanders of various factions, some of whom were directly responsible for the displacement of people we are assisting or the wounded we are evacuating.
Had the move against Pearl Harbor with carrier-based aircraft been ruled impossible by Japan's senior commanders because of some American defensive innovation, those very resourceful men in Tokyo would doubtless have come up with another way to achieve their purpose, for the Japanese government had decided that it was vital to cripple our power in the Pacific.
