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.
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.
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.
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.
Instead, the core exercises command and control only over strategy and ideology.This is not a particularly recent development.
Kids are exercising control over media".
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.
Instead, Wilson attempted to exercise command from the King David Hotel.
Bonnet would not exercise command again until the summer of 1718.
