She notes that Chodkiewicz possessed an iron will, which he was able to impose on the troops under his command, and that he was an efficient commander, although more respected and feared than beloved by his troops.
He is not posh, rather heavy in voice and tread, an efficient commander who has wiped out with an act of will his early roistering days.
A highly efficient commander with an admiring public, Wolseley was employed by successive governments as chief troubleshooter of the British Empire.
Considered a "dynamic" leader and a "brilliant" pilot, Balmer was decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) for "great skill and devotion to duty" during "a varied tour of operations"; promulgated in the London Gazette on 18 April, the award citation further described him as "a most efficient squadron commander, whose keenness and zeal have set a fine example".
And they have every right to be scared, because the coolly efficient Bush commanders have now been exposed as short-term tacticians who had no strategy for dealing with a war of liberation that morphed into a war of attrition.
"O.P.C. is more efficient than Nigerian police!" Commander says.
By early today, with holes in the fences and berms that once separated Kuwait and Iraq, thousands of American soldiers crossed a wide swath of the border in what commanders called an efficient, successful operation.
Benjamin's efficient campaign prompts the merciless British commander, Colonel Tavington (Jason Isaacs), whose one-dimensional evil is as old as the Revolutionary War, to smirk, "He sounds more like a ghost than a man".
"You learn how to do things better, and the less efficient things fall by the wayside," Col. Todd Hess, deputy commander of clinical services at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, said at a briefing on Sunday.
Thanks to the genius of the camp's former commander, the officer explains, the camp has a gruesomely efficient machine that inflicts up to 12 hours of unspeakable torment on the victim before he dies.
The fact that commanders could not control, coordinate, and direct huge modern armies without efficient signal communication quickly became apparent to both the Allies and the Central Powers.
