Until February, when the hearings began, conventional wisdom said Kosovo would be the easiest of the indictments to make stick: as president of Yugoslavia, prosecutors could, and did, argue that Mr Milosevic exercised "command responsibility" over army, police and interior ministry forces operating in the province before atrocities and ethnic cleansing triggered Nato bombing.
It is a key element of a comprehensive suite of communications systems to provide a robust network that allows commanders to exercise command and control effectively.
During the short, decisive Prussian campaign against Austria in 1866, field telegraph enabled Count Helmuth von Moltke, the Prussian commander, to exercise command over his distant armies.
Military communication, the transmission of information from reconnaissance and other units in contact with the enemy and the means for exercising command by the transmission of orders and instructions of commanders to their subordinates.
Instead, the core exercises command and control only over strategy and ideology.This is not a particularly recent development.
An American official in Washington confirmed that the Kyrgyz government was having "trouble exercising command over the security forces".
The willingness of these insurgents to turn against AQI resulted from the presumptuous brutality of AQI when these Sunni tribes resisted their efforts to exercise command and control, force marriages and take over illicit economic activities.
Perhaps to assuage the Germans, whose deployment needs approval by Parliament, Mr. Straw also said that Britain would "exercise command" over the international force, and that its mission would be distinct from the American operation.
It is about exercising command, to the point of being an authoritarian who takes no sass from players or managers; knowing the rules; and being certain of one's calls.
He describes shouting matches with British generals based in London who, he writes, refused to supply him with the equipment he needed, including a helicopter "to fly around a country that was half the size of Europe so I could properly exercise command".
Hence, the role of a local government leader is more than just to exercise command and control as he/she does in emergency response.
