Mr. Gates's critique of top-heavy headquarters overseas was underscored not only by the date on which it was given but also by the location of the speech: the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum here.
The Second Army Report Centre at Locre Château was linked by buried cable to each corps report centre, corps heavy artillery headquarters, divisional artillery headquarters, RFC squadrons, balloon headquarters, survey stations and wireless stations.
These global giants carry the same store model to new locations selling everything under one roof, often at very competitive prices, and, in the case of Wal-Mart, still managed with a heavy hand from headquarters.
Each heavy artillery group headquarters divided their zones into map squares, which were allotted to artillery batteries, required to be ready swiftly to open fire on them.
The city, the site of a large military headquarters, had so far been spared the heavy conventional bombing that had destroyed much of Tokyo and Osaka.
They have been moving their headquarters and heavy weapons out of easily identifiable locations in preparation for US air attacks.
Troops for those units might come from those in restructured headquarters or heavy combat units no longer considered essential.
"When I was growing up," said Michael Monks, the leader of the workers' council at Mannesmann's mobile phone subsidiary here, "people called this the executive desk for the Ruhr Valley -- the headquarters for heavy industry".
The American military said Monday that it had killed as many as 18 supporters of the rebel Shiite Muslim cleric Moktada al-Sadr as it demolished his Baghdad headquarters during a heavy nighttime firefight that echoed around the capital.
Small shareholders, who hold most of the remaining 80percentt of the stock, will have about five-sixths of their stake in the company wiped out by the plan, which was approved at a stormy meeting conducted under heavy police guard at Hyundai headquarters here today.
Cerners new offerings, on display at its gleaming headquarters with a heavy dose of skilled salesmanship, have the whiff of the future.
