Sentence examples for single commander from inspiring English sources

Command of British forces in North America, previously under a single commander, was divided into two commands.

Additionally, the law fostered interservice cooperation: a single commander for all SOF promoted interoperability among the forces assigned to the same command.

The First Crusade had no single commander.

He said that there was no single commander: "There is no brain.

He proposed that they leave their rancor behind and rebuild their communities under a single commander — him.

But with no single commander to run the show, the twin demands of completing the extermination and repelling the R.P.F. had proved too much for the genocidal clique.

He further proposed that a single Commander-in-Chief lead the Army, Navy and Air Force; the Chief of the General Staff, the Chief of the Naval Staff, and the Chief of the Air Staff would report directly to the new position.

But American officers do not believe that the assaults are controlled by a single enemy commander or organization.

NATO provides a framework for European and American forces to cooperate in joint operations under a single overall commander -- traditionally an American.

It is not conceivable to think of the United States military or any single American commander wielding comparable civil authority in a foreign land today.

He is particularly convincing on Bolivar, whom he portrays as an inspirational but almost suicidally single-minded commander, fame-obsessed, and a paternalist idealist.But to approach history as primarily the great deeds of great men is not just old-fashioned but, in this case, flawed.