Last spring, the president took a highly visible trip to Asia and Europe where he had the world stage at his command.
He has sounded belligerent towards several of Russia's former vassal states on its rim, and shows little sign of softening towards Chechnya, the rebel republic devastated at his command.
Yet he seems truly to love ruling over a good mob, or at least none of his advisers stopped him from effusively praising the glory of a joint effort at his command.
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It was clear from the start that the president's campaign was to consist of remaining in the White House, where, in contrast to what Secretary Ickes labeled Lindbergh's "carnival antics, " he planned to address the hazards of the international situation with all the authority at his command, working round the clock if necessary.
At the request of Pentagon security reviewers, the former general made famous by his command at JSOC doesn't use that term, instead substituting "Task Force 714" for JSOC, "Green team" for Delta, and "Blue" for SEAL Team 6.
General Petraeus also needs a replacement at Central Command (his nominal superior) who won't undermine his efforts.
During his tenure at Space Command, he witnessed visitors to its headquarters expressing incredulity that the United States could only watch helplessly if a missile were launched at this country, even if by accident.
In his current post at Central Command, he has worked closely with our forces in Afghanistan.
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One of them immediately called for his CFO and wrote out a detailed memo to all county heads under his command telling them what not to spend on at all, and what to seek his pre-fact approval for before spending.
That's a filmmaker alert to his environment and the tools at this command.
Mr Marin said nothing would immediately change at the football federation or at the World Cup organising committee under his command.
Allen lacks senior level combat command, he was the White House's top pick for the role, largely because of his experience as the deputy at Central Command.
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Although the government's spending plans received a fairly critical reception, most of the barbs (for once) were aimed at the chancellor and his typically labyrinthine new command-and-control systems for monitoring the journey of every tax pound.
It also comes at the beginning of a week in which senior aides say Bush will make a number of public appearances, including his announced stops at the Pentagon and Central Command headquarters.
He has set and missed too many deadlines for any new ones of his devising, at any rate to command credibility.
On July 3, 1775, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, he took command of his ill-trained troops and embarked upon a war that was to last six grueling years.
It may be that his very command of the business details at issue suggests that he, as much as anyone, should have been able to control events.
One Royal Navy captain after another would champion his new command's inaugural performance at sea trials, or praise the yard to the hilt when a vessel returned to the port of its birth.
Mr Netanyahu will command at least 62 votes when he presents his proposed government to the Knesset for approval next week.
The captain of the submarine at the time - Cdr Andy Coles - was relieved of his command shortly after the incident.
Mr. Kim's longtime second-in-command, Kim Yong Nam, took his place at the parade and may take on a bigger short-term role.
"Today is not about change, it's about continuity, " Dunford said at a change-of-command ceremony in Kabul attended by his predecessor Marine Gen.
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He was in command of his facts, but Vista bombed and, at times, seemed as if it was going to take the company down with it.
"It's a decision I respect as it's for family reasons, " added Brown, who also had Pedersen under his command in his days as number two to Sam Allardyce at Bolton.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who in 1940 had said, "The fighters are our salvation but the bombers alone provide the means of victory, " was so shocked by the extent of the annihilation that he issued a memo criticizing the "acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive" and in his VE Day speech at the end of the war scarcely mentioned Bomber Command.
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Ghana's Gyan could command a strong sympathy vote after his dramatic hero and villain role at the World Cup.
Wild said her son always wanted to go into the military, like his father, who is a command chief in the Air Force Reserve at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
Mr. Capus had publicly said as recently as April that the team in place at "Today" was the right one, but the show's executive producer, Jim Bell, and Mr. Burke, who have built a rapport since Mr. Burke came from his role as Mr. Robert's second-in-command at Comcast to lead NBCUniversal, favored a more aggressive approach, according to people familiar with the matter.
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