But some Defense Department officials, with a deep aversion to peacekeeping, are worried that such a command relationship would make the United States responsible for the security force.
The report said the "ambiguous command relationship" in the prison was made worse by orders that seemed to give military intelligence officials broad authority.
But Peter Maass, then reporting for the New York Times, and who has interviewed both men, remembers the relationship differently: "I talked to both of them about each other and it was very clear that they were very close to each other in terms of their command relationship and also in terms of their ideas and ideology of what needed to be done.
The first is a numeric attribute belonging to the sale relation; the second belongs to the command relationship and is detected because the command is parallel to the sale relation.
Part of Grant's reluctance to act could have been the unusual command relationship he had with Buell.
The command relationship between the Australians and their armoured support was also complicated, as the Americans were not under command as they might normally have been, rather Koch was free to conduct his own battle.
Wall, in an internal memo about the inquiry findings, concedes: 'RMP command relationships were not clear'.
In addition to the already cited leadership problems in the 800th M.P. Brigade, there were a series of tangled command relationships.
"Cross-border communications have been improved, command levels at border coordination centers have increased, and command relationships have been redefined where needed," Lt. Col. Jimmie E. Cummings Jr., a NATO spokesman, wrote by e-mail.
