Word: commandant
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...deciding that case, the Supreme Court said that an army commander is responsible for atrocities committed by soldiers under his command and is guilty of a war crime if he does not effectively control his troops, even if he was unaware of the situation...
This fear intrudes on much of Mailer's most serious work, filling it with a bloodcurdling immediacy-the mechanization of command in wartime, the mechanical sterility of men in politics, and of course, most recently, the near congruence of men and machines in space exploration...
...Command yesterday claimed that the number of American troops in South Vietnam has reached 317,300. the lowest point since October 1966. U.S. headquarters has explained that the drop is a direct result of Nixon's plans for troop withdrawals in South Vietnam...
Just as the word casbah brings to mind Charles Boyer's sexily sinister invitation to accompany him there, the name Casablanca evokes the gravelly command of Humphrey Bogart: "Play it again, Sam." So it seemed like a good idea to Pan American Airways to advertise its flight to Casablanca with a movie still of the late Bogey and those immortal words. To his widow Lauren Bacall, though, it seemed like a lousy idea. "Is there no limit to what people will do to make a buck?" she snarled. "It's the worst sort of invasion of privacy. Bogart...
...search for comparative facts was often discouraging. They had great difficulty in determining the actual strength of the Tactical Air Command and other tactical air elements. Incredibly, it took from 1961 to 1966 for military and civilian planners to agree on how to take inventory at all.* Even now, the authors complain, the true cost of an infantry division is "not really known anywhere in the system...