In his 2006 book Among the Dead Cities, Grayling was not afraid to accuse Allied commanders of war crimes in their bombing of civilians in the Second World War.
Pentagon officials say the frequency is similar to that of video conferences with American commanders in war zones.
As a flag officer, he was Commander Fleet Air NAS Whidbey Island, Commander Carrier Division Seven during the Vietnam War, Commander Naval Air Reserve, and Commander Tenth Naval District/Caribbean Sea Frontier/Commander Fleet Air Caribbean from 1973 to 1975.
And can Mrs. Clinton presume to sell herself as best equipped to be commander in chief "on Day One" when opposing an actual commander and war hero?
A statue of the former British military commander and war hero stands in Whitehall.
In 1916 he was transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, where he rose to become a squadron commander by war's end.
I suppose in some broad or medium-term sense that is what President Obama seeks to do, as any commander in war would.
How can we pretend it won't?" Karzai appealed to Obama to keep McChrystal, calling him the best commander the war has had.
But above all it's an honest account of the hopes and fears (not least of the British media) of a senior commander at war.
"Storm," Hans-Christian Schmid's dry, concise thriller, examines the politics surrounding the prosecution of a former Bosnian Serb Army commander for war crimes.
