Sentence examples for field command from inspiring English sources

On Aug. 10, 1870, just after the first major battle of the Franco-German War, Bazaine was appointed commander in chief and took field command of the the Army of the Rhine, which comprised the left wing of the French army.

In 1977, Marshal Kulikov became commander of the Warsaw Pact forces, the top field command in the Soviet forces.

In short, despite his many martial assets, Bragg was simply not suited for field command.

The laws governing them are secret, as are the mechanisms of Presidential decision-making and field command.

Interview with Mr. Ingersoll, who is writing a history of the military campaign in Europe from the point of view of the field command.

Israeli security officials said those arrested were members of a "field command" responsible for strengthening Hamas's presence in some West Bank universities.

In 1942, after holding a number of field commands, Mr. Amir was made head of the Haganah's information department, which later evolved into the Mossad and Shin Bet intelligence agencies.

Unlike, say, Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan or Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, military men who developed their charisma in the field commanding troops, Mr. Kagame's specialty was military intelligence.

So military planners on the Pentagon's Joint Staff and in its field commands are offering a broad range of approaches, depending on how events play out in Libya and how tough the United States and its allies want to be.

An infantryman, General Casey has served in a variety of field commands and staff positions, including that of special assistant to the Army chief of staff, Gen. Carl E. Vuono, during the Persian Gulf war in 1991, and commander of the First Armored Division in Germany from 1999 to 2001.

He also engineered the establishment of four field commands for pilot training.