There was also the fact that when the RUF battlefield commander Sam Bokarie retired, he set up house in the Liberian capital Monrovia (I met him there).

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One morning back in August 2010, I attended the morning Battlefield Update of a Nato commander in southern Afghanistan.

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' But such battlefield clairvoyance, which he had occasionally displayed as a corps commander in Tunisia and Sicily, often eluded him as an army group commander.

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Many young men, said another commander, are frustrated that they risked their lives on the battlefield but have yet to be rewarded.

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The American commander in Iraq is ordering his troops to get training in moral and ethical battlefield standards.

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The division's field commander, Abdel Qader Saleh, told The Wall Street Journal that the four men were given a battlefield trial before they were killed.

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