Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no reason to assume that the Watergate tapes have been tampered with; that would be a major undertaking. Most experts believe that the necessary know-how could not be found in the U.S. Government, not even among the engineers of the Army Strategic Communications Command. Such skills are scarce even outside Government. Estimates of the number of people able to accomplish the task range from half a dozen to 1,000. Moreover, not even a qualified man with the nerve and skill of the Jackal would be enough. He would also have to be willing to leave himself...
...Finley, who gleefully drenched coaches, players and bystanders on his sweeps downfield. With the Brown players as reluctant as the Crimson to battle for a loose ball kicked into a flooded area of the field, Finley had little trouble turning the tide his way. Unfortunately, Finley's command of the waterways wasn't enough to overcome the inconsistent play of the rest of the team...
...Egyptian military command made a thorough study of the kind of desert war that would have to be fought against Israel and trained the army carefully for it. That meant, for one thing, that the goal was not to occupy territory but to destroy the enemy forces. "A desert is like an ocean," an Egyptian officer told Wynn. "A navy doesn't try to occupy a big segment of the ocean; it tries to destroy the enemy fleet. The desert is a paradise for a tactical commander but hell for a logistics officer...
...ease and relaxed, despite the occasional incoming rounds of artillery. Reinforcing their confidence was the arrival at the front of supplies airlifted to Israel from America. The roads were full of trucks with English markings. A further encouraging sign to the troops was the exodus of many senior commanders from a permanent command post in the middle of the Sinai. When we asked where these officers had gone, we were told with a wink that they were "far forward." We assumed that meant on the Egyptian side of the canal...
...problem, however, is that after bureaucracy reaches a certain size, the chain of command is stretched fairly thin, making it relatively tempting, and often easy, for bureaucrats to forget the source of their authority and to arrogate policy-making authority to themselves as a supplement to their policy-executing duties. This possibility is easiest in those areas of government activity where legislated policy is loosely defined and subject to varying interpretations. It is exacerbated when bureaucracies grow so large and independent as to develop a life of their own, and become more concerned with serving their own prerogatives than with...