This is what is meant by the principle of decentralized command in campaigns and battles.

这就是战役和战斗的分散指挥原则。

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The FARC is widely dispersed and has a decentralized command so the group's leaders may not have realized they no longer had the boy or they may have thought they could quickly recover him.

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