I remember him firing up the two weeks' rehearsal, in the parish hall off Sloane Square, where all early Royal Court productions were created, from his point of command – standing on a chair with a referee's whistle hanging round his neck.
But rather than using that information locally, to control just one junction, ASTAC receives the relay and makes appropriate adjustments from its centralised point of command.
As in East Timor, nobody knows at what point the chain of command may have broken down, but it is clear that the militias continue to receive supplies and support from the military.
"High desertion rates in any company, battalion or division pointed to failures of command and logistics for which blame pointed to leaders as much as to the men who deserted," he says.
At the very least, though, Curveball's case demonstrates that far too few questions were asked at every point in the chain of command about the validity of the case for war.
In some theories, alien infiltrators have shapeshifted into human form and move freely throughout human society, even to the point of taking control of command positions in governmental, corporate, and religious institutions, and are now in the final stages of their plan to take over the world.
Fraser, who acquiesced to this as Riedesel was senior to him in the chain of command, pointed out that he was authorized to engage the enemy, and would be leaving his camp at 3 am the next morning.
From a military point of view, the Kriegsmarine command hoped to see the Spitsbergen, Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Isles and possibly the Shetland Isles (which were also claimed by the Quisling regime ) under its domination to guarantee German naval access to the mid-Atlantic.
His own area of command, he pointed out, was two hundred and twenty thousand square miles.
If he gets to the point where he has that kind of command, he can be successful".
At this point I had emailed my chain of command, asking them for an extension because I thought I could be pregnant again.
