Word: commandingly
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...country in the world has more men and women under military command than China. The People's Liberation Army includes some 4 million regulars who are supported, when necessary, by a lightly armed Basic People's Militia of 4 million men and women and an unarmed Ordinary People's Militia of up to 6 million...
...Administration was certainly aware that a standing procedure called the National Command Authority allows the Vice President to assume temporary power in military emergencies. If a President is incapable of making a crucial decision, the NCA automatically devolves responsibility to the Vice President and then to the Secretary of Defense. Bush is also chairman of what was called the Crisis Management Team, which is now known as the Special Situations Group. The Vice President, the White House felt, was therefore already in place to preside over any crisis...
...some extent the chairman's job is what its occupant chooses to make of it, and few doubt that the Kentucky-born Crowe, 60, will choose an activist role. Colleagues know him as an able commander who exercises shrewd political and military judgment. He brings to his new post unusually broad experience, having served as commander in chief of the Allied Forces in Southern Europe from 1980 to 1983 and as commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Command since then. Says Robert Komer, a former Under Secretary of Defense: "Crowe is a broad-gauged guy, a truly independent thinker...
...just ended was a particularly satisfying one for Brennan, highlighted by his authorship of two decisions that strongly reasserted the constitutional separation of church and state. Brennan has spent nearly 29 years on the high bench fighting to uphold such principles, and he has some formidable weapons at his command...
...persuasive, at moments unforgettable, and in Kenneth Branagh, 24, it features a potential heir to the legacy of Olivier, Richardson and Gielgud. Branagh has the animal magnetism of a leading man and the cerebral fire and ice of a character actor. He brings off the hortatory set pieces of command with howling fervor and excels at the gentle comedy of courtship, pouring his heart into the cracked vessel of his schoolboy French as he woos the French princess Katharine (Cecile Paoli...