But much of the criticism in the report was leveled at commanders at the scene, who did not establish a command post or manage the crush of officers who responded to the shootings, leading to "an ineffective and poorly managed operation".
In the minutes after the attack, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Bernard B. Kerik, his police commissioner, found themselves trying to survive and establish a command center only to have each place become untenable.
Under intense machine gun and mortar fire, the landing of Major Max Morrison's "A" Company proceeded well, allowing some to establish a command-post upon reaching the sand dunes.
The Bangladeshi military has established a command center near Rana Plaza to coordinate rescue efforts.
The Coast Guard, which established a command center in Mobile, Ala., scrambled helicopters from stations along the Gulf of Mexico and as far away as Cape Cod, Mass.
The Kachin army still holds Laiza, the capital of the Kachin autonomous region, where the generals have established a command center on a hotel's fourth floor.
In place of a capitalist economy, in which individuals compete for profits, moreover, party leaders established a command economy in which the state controlled property and its bureaucrats determined wages, prices, and production goals.
A coin toss had earned Kerry the opening question — "Do you believe you could do a better job than President Bush in preventing another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States?" — and, with his answer, he established a command of the room that he never relinquished.
The 17 criteria include checking whether the local clinical commissioning group on-call manager has visited the trust, whether the trust has established a command and control arrangement and whether "escalation protocols" for 12-hour trolley waits are in place and are working effectively.
The FBI had been closely monitoring the event, even establishing a command post at its Dallas field office.
Greitens, a former Navy Seal and Purple Heart recipient, has said that if he were governor, he would have established a command presence in Ferguson and achieved "peace by the second night".
