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.
An American official in Washington confirmed that the Kyrgyz government was having "trouble exercising command over the security forces".
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.
Instead, the core exercises command and control only over strategy and ideology.This is not a particularly recent development.
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.
Happily surprised by his appointment as Chairman of COSC, Dowling hoped to transform the position such that it would exercise command authority over the service chiefs, but in this he was to be disappointed.
In this one respect at least, an endless parade of three- and four-star generals exercising command in various theaters over the past several decades have earned high marks.
"Questions abound around how a human will communicate with AI agents, how they will exercise command and control over large numbers of entities (e.g., drone swarms), and how a human will make sense out of massive amounts of sensor data," added Richmond.
Determined to avoid those problems, the Wright brothers created a positive control system that enabled (indeed, required) the pilot to exercise absolute command over the motion of his machine in every axis and at every moment.
In January 1796 the position of commander-in-chief of the fleet in the Mediterranean passed to Sir John Jervis, who appointed Nelson to exercise independent command over the ships blockading the French coast as a commodore.
Instead, Wilson attempted to exercise command from the King David Hotel.
