For its part, Congress must afford them opportunities to do so in a manner consistent with officers' constitutional oaths and in keeping with the imperative of civilian control of the military.

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Such optimal outcomes depend on the tenuous balancing of state control with the imperative for broader private sector participation.

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Organizations need its leaders to want to exert command and a degree of control but it is imperative that leaders cede power to others if they want to get anything done.

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In simplified terms, what mattered to BAE - and to EADS - was that France and Germany would agree to limit their ownership and control of the enlarged business (and see my earlier note for why this was a commercial imperative for BAE).

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