Top-level meetings were held to try to get the commanders of both armies to work together.
Many on the right have said the president should take the advice of the commanders on the ground.
Already the commanders of the international force, deployed only in the capital, have been extra-careful to limit their responsibilities.
The envoy will have to compete for influence with the commanders of the American and coalition armed forces in Afghanistan.
The commanders noted that during the first Falluja offensive in April this year there was an upsurge of violence in Mosul.
And now it is up to the commanders on the ground and others to implement the strategy the President laid out.
The commanders made Delmer trade places with the newbie, who was placed at the front of the line in their battlefield maneuvers.
The commanders and the generals there are on track to do so.
So the commanders on the ground are very much aware of that.
We have to stand foursquare and 100 percent with the commanders in the field and so on and the rest of the argument.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the commanders talk to him all the time, and he reports they haven't been asking for any more troops.
One of the top Defense Department civilians says he's spoken to the military commanders in Iraq, and he said yesterday the commanders are very optimistic.
The commanders worry that the new photos would be used for the same purpose just as the spring fighting season gets under way in Afghanistan.
Gen Dan Halutz as Chief of General Staff after the war, almost all the commanders who displayed such incompetence last summer remain in their positions.
Pakistan's election commission said it had contacted the commanders of the army and the Rangers paramilitary forces in Karachi after receiving reports of polling problems in the city.
President Ronald Reagan began saying "we'll listen to the military", and George W Bush made a political mantra of "we'll listen to the commanders in the field", he says.
Is that still conditions-based and dependent on the recommendations from the commanders on the ground, meaning it could be very, very slow after July 2011, or it could be rapid?
One of the commanders of the British intervention force told me in 2000 his project was "to build the country back up, starting with the government army as the first building block".
Officials said the commanders will face a challenge of continuing training of Afghan forces while overseeing the extraction of tons of equipment and thousands of soldiers over the course of the year.
Obama concluded that the commanders were trying to box him into McChrystal's preferred strategy, and he called them on the Oval Office carpet to demand that the leaks and pressure tactics stop.
But what's interesting about this is that the president has all along said that when it comes to the idea of troop numbers, he's going to be taking his cues from the commanders on the ground, particularly General Casey.
The army's high command, an 18-man body including the 75-year-old defence minister, Muhammad Tantawi, the chief of staff, Sami Enan, and the commanders of service branches, specialist corps and military regions, suspended the constitution, dissolved Egypt's parliament and assumed control.
At midnight there is a call for all the brigade commanders in the sector.
Most impressive of all were the precinct commanders, the captains and deputy inspectors who ran the show.
Mark Simmons and Stuart Osborne, currently temporary commanders with the Met, and Ch Supt Ian Quinton of Norfolk Constabulary were named the new commanders on Wednesday.
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The allied commanders, not the city's mayor, had the ultimate say.
Cpl Jonathon Ratten, 29, from Loughton, Essex, is one of the team commanders liaising with the agencies at the port to get it up and running again.
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On this night the police commanders are everywhere along the road enforcing curfew, but they don't always inspire confidence.
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