Rules of engagement (ROE), military directives meant to describe the circumstances under which ground, naval, and air forces will enter into and continue combat with opposing forces.
His inability to imagine that he might end up where he is today meant that he left plenty of hostages to fortune in his many explicit military directives ordering the ethnic cleansing of the Republika Srpska, and his frequent boasts designed to intimidate the foreigners, officials and journalists that he came across.
Their betrayal began right after liberation, when some ex-prisoners on their way home were ordered by our military (on directive from Washington) to sign a "gag order" about not discussing their treatment in captivity.
Mr. Bush's order -- outlined in one of three military-policy directives to be issued by the White House as soon as Friday -- will also underscore the administration's commitment to building a defensive missile shield, the officials said.
So Hannibal has stayed a fact of military life and the directive activated more than once during this current campaign.
The Department of Defense, in its own directive to military personnel and contractors, says that simply viewing these documents, without proper authorization, will violate long-standing rules even though they are accessible to the public at large on Internet sites.
Meanwhile, on 8 March, the Bosnian Serb military command had issued "Directive 7", which escalated what had, until then, been called the "slow suffocation of the enclaves" and now ordered "combat operations to create an unbearable situation of total insecurity of life with no hope of survival or life for inhabitants of Srebrenica and Žepa".
In 1992, in what would turn out to be the last year of the first Bush administration, Wolfowitz, then under secretary for policy in Cheney's Defense Department, presided over the writing of a new "Defense Planning Guidance," a broad directive to military leaders on what to prepare for.
There is no authoritative definition of "executive orders" that distinguishes them from "presidential memorandums," "presidential proclamations," or -- as in the case of the George W. Bush first directive on military commissions -- just "orders".
No reasoned discussion results from criticisms of loose postulations, mischaracterizations and suppositions of military doctrines and national directives.
