I know that Alice Munro, the great Canadian short fiction writer, also has among other things a commanding sense of region.
But the truck used this morning belonged to the security detail of Bismillah Khan, the commanding general of the region for the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance.
But the shift in thinking, outlined by senior administration officials on Wednesday, suggests that the president has been presented with an approach that would not require all of the additional troops that his commanding general in the region has requested.
It has peaks as tall as 3,000 feet and is the western terminus of the 65-mile-long Backbone Trail, a challenging path across a large swath of the region with commanding views.
The severity of the raid led the commanding American general in the region, General Frederick Funston, to reinforce the Texas Mexico border region with troops and to contact Washington with demands that he be allowed to give no quarter to any Mexican raiders who attacked the United States in the future.
A regional commanding officer, Maj.
Rear Adm. Kaleem Shaukat, the Pakistani commanding Combined Task Force 151, the region's multinational counterpiracy command, said that without a legal system to match the navies' tactical progress, piracy, and uncertainties about what to do with Somali prisoners on the high seas, would persist.
Until recently he was commanding army units in the Brega region.
While the USS Shark was in the region in 1846, its commanding officer estimated there were around 30 blacks settlers.
Despite having a commanding majority and unprecedented control over the regions, Mr Rajoy has been a disappointment.
