Word: commander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HDNS drop site. Complaints poured in; the newspaper officials discussed replacing Olive with a more reliable manager; bills to the Globe and News Distributors, Inc.--the wholesaler that sells the Times to HDNS piled up by the week. Having put himself at the end of the chain of command. Epps should have responded to these problems by firing Olive...
...Soviets outnumber the U.S. 2 to 1 in manpower. But Soviet conscripts typically serve in their units for no longer than a year and thus might not perform effectively in the chaotic conditions of battle. Since command from above is absolute, individual soldiers and even officers are discouraged from taking action on their own-a potentially serious drawback, since personal initiative can sometimes turn the tide of battle...
...Brown's view that "our ability to move into the region has improved enormously. We had nothing five years ago, when the U.S. depended on the Shah to protect its interests." To carry out the new policy, the Joint Chiefs produced a new command: the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDF). It consists of 250 officers and senior NCOS at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., and 200,000 soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen who would come under their command in case of an emergency...
BEIRUT, Lebanon--Iraqi forces, after weeks of street fighting, captured the Iranian port city of Khorramshahr, Iraq's military command said yesterday. Iran's military officials denied the claim, saying that "the enemy's attempts to advance into Khorramshahr were foiled...
...students, especially those who've listened to the likes of Richard Pipes, should realize the first, most obvious, reason why Ronald Reagan should be denied the presidency: in a world one decision away from nuclear conflagration, only the coolest of heads, the sanest of men, should be allowed to command our military. Obsessed with fears of Russian imperialism and spreading Marxism, neither Reagan nor his likely advisers fit that description. And even if the mushroom clouds never appear on the horizon, their "hard-nosed" approach to diplomacy seems likely to maintain and extend America's relationships with the "free world...