"Communism" has come to mean command economies run by a bureaucratic state machine.
Although some of the maritime novels promote the need to act decisively ("command means self-command", as it is put in The Shadow-Line), in others uncertainty is the positive ground the novel discovers: a place where the world's multidimensional difficulties can, if just for a moment, be squared.
"Unless you degrade [ISIS's] war-fighting capacity that means its command and control, its leadership, its armored vehicles, its ability to mass and maneuver and conduct war there is no local force on the ground in this entire swath of territory that can stand up to it right now," he said.
In them the column was as much a means for command and control as it was for concentration of fighting force, for as long as a fleet maintained station in line ahead, each ship separated by a scant 200 or 300 yards, cohesion was assured, maneuvers were coordinated, and any malingering by reluctant captains was obvious.
"Unless you degrade [ISIS's] war-fighting capacity — that means its command and control, its leadership, its armored vehicles, its ability to mass and maneuver and conduct war — there is no local force on the ground in this entire swath of territory that can stand up to it right now," he said.
The top seed Safina's victory over Vinci, ranked 59, was certainly an improvement on her first-round loss to the Taiwanese qualifier Chang Kat-chen athehe Pan Pacific Open last week, but was by no means commanding.
He means to command the United States armed forces and control its nuclear codes.
That means the command has an overwhelming influence over what happens.
That means voice command is poised to become a lot more important for third-party apps over the next few years.
