Sentence examples for divided command from inspiring English sources

The Japanese suffered heavy losses but their plan succeeded because of the Americans' divided command and their unbelievably poor communications.

Parade's End, BBC2 It helped to have read Ford Madox Ford's novel to be able to follow Tom Stoppard's adaptation – in which Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall and Adelaide Clemens divided command of the screen between them.

What is impermissible in both cases and institutions, however, because of its supposed dysfunctionality for governance, is a divided command or two heads.

Unlike the divided command of the French, the Austrians enjoyed unity of command.

The system of divided command... was not an ideal arrangement, but with men of goodwill it could have worked.

Air Force historian Alan Stephens later commented: "The system of divided command ... was not an ideal arrangement, but with men of goodwill it could have worked.

The 21 documents include decrees issued by Czar Nicholas II and Marshal Georgy Zhukov, a top-secret paper on the reconstruction of Russian military airfields in the 1930s, and Catherine the Great's decree to divide command of forces in Poland during the 18th-century partitions of the country.

For the Battle of Gazala, Rommel divided his command in two, taking personal command of the mobile units of the Deutsches Afrika Korps and Italian XX Motorized Corps, which he led around the southern flank of Lieutenant-General Neil Ritchie's British Eighth Army.

Carpenter divided his command, with Nolan with his company and Texas Rangers on one route, while he took the rest of the command on another route.

Behind the legislation were concerns over divided military command authority arising from the 1983 invasion of Grenada and the failed hostage-rescue mission.

Secretary of War John Armstrong divided the command of the army, assigning Harrison to a "backwater" post and giving control of the front to one of Harrison's subordinates.