For major command decisions, he convenes conferences with his senior officers to explore all possible options to resolve conflicts and operational command decisions.

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What options were presented up the chain of command?

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William McRaven, who heads the military's special operations command, and asked for a small team to game out the options.

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As the second-largest AmEx stockholder, with 50 million shares (Berkshire Hathaway is the largest), Davis had the clout to command several probing sessions with Kenneth Chenault, the CEO, on the options question.

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The Nuclear Posture Review proposes that we consider a series of options that extend presidential decision-making time, by strengthening command and control apparatus around those nuclear weapons, and that we open discussions with Russia to reduce the possibility of either an accidental launch or a false detection of a launch.

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