Oliver Law became an early commander of the Lincoln Brigade.
Another similarity has been the American command's readiness, after years of false starts, to honor the military's doctrine of "lessons learned" — in Afghanistan, not only from the mistakes made by earlier American commanders but from the Soviet blunders.
A month earlier, Canadian Corps commander Julian Byng was promoted to the rank of General and replaced General Edmund Allenby as commander of the British Third Army.
Hours earlier, the commander, Col. David A. Rubenstein, had said the medical evidence did "not suggest that any of her wounds were caused by either gunshots or stabbing injuries".
Two nights earlier, the commander and his band of a dozen insurgents in Wardak province, just south of the capital, had attacked members of a local US-backed militia.
Sitting in Nagl's room, I mentioned that a few days earlier a commander in a nearby area had told me how he'd instructed his snipers, before a planned anti-occupation march on their base began, to identify the leaders of the march and, if the crowd became violent, to shoot the leaders dead.
Earlier, the commander of an ultra-nationalist volunteer group loyal to Kiev said its forces, which are based in Mariupol, were advancing on pro-Russian rebels outside the southern port city.
In the early days commanders did complain about not having enough men and the right equipment, but that did not seem to affect their desire to "get the job done".
From 1973 to the early nineties, Commander Jon Burge, a South Side detective, allegedly oversaw the coercion of confessions by means of beatings, burns, suffocation, mock execution, and electric shocks to the face and genitals.
Early on, "Commander in Chief" gives the audience a rare wink; we first see Rod accompanying Allen when she's informed of Bridges's stroke, and when he interjects something she cuts him off.
