Cities and buildings, roads and railways, pipelines and ports, bridges and tunnels, telecom towers and Internet cables, and all manner of other assets command up to $2 trillion per year in global spending, slightly more than the $1.7 trillion spent on defense -- but the gap is growing.
When Putin became President, he set out to stabilize Russian authority, and he did so in the time-honored manner: seizing command of regional governorships; cracking down on political opposition; taking complete control of the legislature, the courts, and state television.
His handwriting was shown to match that of the monk Feodor Kuzmich, who appeared mysteriously in Siberia in 1836 and was noted for his genteel manner, his command of several languages, and his claim to have forgotten his past.
The decidedly noncompassionate phrase iron fist has not even the smooth qualifier that Thomas Carlyle reported in 1850 was used by the Iron Duke's defeated rival: "Soft of speech and manner, yet with an inflexible rigour of command... iron hand in a velvet glove,' as Napoleon defined it".
The teachers' commands, demands, manner of interacting with the students, and own conformity to the regulations of the classroom and school establish an ethos of behavior a way of conducting oneself within that institution.
"There were indications that application of power of command, expert knowledge, and position were employed in a manner to suggest possible coercion," the report concluded.
Next, these units must be subordinated to a single directing brain and must be employed in a coordinated manner following a single, well-considered plan: hence the principle of unity of command.
We have seen this kind of bungling before, not least in the months before 9/11 when all manner of red flags about the future perps never made it up the chain of command.
Such practical knowledge is delivered not as judgments (as with mathematics) but as instructions or commands, in the manner of managerial knowledge (The Statesman 260a-b).
In this manner the Anglo-American allies managed to avoid the division of responsibility that was built into the German chain of command and that proved fatal to the Germans' war effort from D-Day on.
