Sentence examples for failures of command from inspiring English sources

"High desertion rates in any company, battalion or division pointed to failures of command and logistics for which blame pointed to leaders as much as to the men who deserted," he says.

The documentary also delves into faulty intelligence and failures of command (as well as flashes of heroism); the cover-up, investigation and series of trials; and the poisonous domestic politics of late-1960s America.

The Dover mortuary has been under fire the past year for what the Air Force has called "gross mismanagement" for losing the body parts of two service members, repeated failures of command, doing little to correct sloppy practices and sawing off the protruding arm bone of a dead Marine without informing his family.

Mortuary officials had already been under fire for what the Air Force termed "gross mismanagement" for losing the body parts of two service members in 2009, repeated failures of command, doing little to change sloppy practices and sawing off the protruding arm bone of a dead Marine without informing his family.

"The failures of judgment, the miscalculations, the failures of command, the miscalculation about the numbers of troops needed to win the peace, the miscalculation about not having a plan to win the peace, the miscalculation of sending troops over there without adequate armor, with Humvees that aren't armored," Mr. Kerry clicked off his litany of complaints.

Buckley wrote that the operation was a failure of command.

Instead, it was clearly a failure of command and control, as the U.S. personnel and their Hmong allies were not permitted to freely organize their own defense to hold the radar facility.

Their failure of command, or effective leadership at the top -- not only the top of the U.S. but of the world, in effect -- was a reflection of their "nice" personalities, but a travesty of common sense, and an insult to history.

Ebbsfleet deserves to rank among the great failures of central command planning.

Inside a defended area some 30 miles round, Navarre (pictured above, left) set up a series of parachute drop-zones, an airstrip and a string of heavily defended strongpoints, with now-famous codenames, including Eliane and Huguette.The result, and General Navarre's dramatic failures of operational command, are history.

"The guilt of failure of my command.