David McKiernan, the allied land war commander, visited the British headquarters here today to be briefed on the attacks.
Robin Brims, the British land war commander, briefed him on a plan, which foresees the consolidation of allied control over the city in a matter of days and then a British push north on Highway 6.
Speaking to the Senate Armed Service Committee, the Iraq war commander told lawmakers that there had been "significant but uneven security progress" in Iraq since the so-called surge strategy put 30, 000 more soldiers on the ground in Iraq.
"His bravery during two tours in Vietnam earned him three silver stars, and set him on the path to lead our troops into battle in Grenada, and then to take charge of the overall allied effort in the first Gulf War as Commander of United States Central Command, " he said.
Under the legal doctrine of command responsibility, commanders may be held criminally responsible for war crimes committed by personnel within their unit if directed by a commander, or if a commander knew that war crimes were occurring and failed to prevent them or investigate and hold accountable those perpetrating the offenses.
In 1943, Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed World War II Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia.
Acevedo had also provided the U.S. War Department with the commander's name.
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The 58 Eisenhower letters, handwritten between 1942 and 1945, range from news of the war to the Allied commander's devotion to his wife, Mamie.
MacArthur had the lowest casualty rate of any major commander of World War II.
The most formidable Allied commander of World War II was not British or American but Russian.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson -- author of "Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief" -- echoed that thought.
During World War II, Sikorski was commander-in-chief of the Polish Armed Forces and was also prime minister of the Polish government in exile.
General Tommy Franks, the American commander of the war in Afghanistan, hopes to complete the training of between 2, 000 to 3, 000 soldiers for the new Afghan army within six months.
Friday night it gave foreign oil interests in Nigeria, especially Shell, which the main operator in Niger Delta, till midnight Friday to leave the area or face what one commander called total war.
Major General Patrick Cordingley, a brigade commander in the Gulf war, said this was to be expected.
He took part in the war in eastern Bosnia as a commander of a Yugoslav army corps.
McChrystal's strongest show of support came from Kabul, where President Hamid Karzai called him the "best commander" of the war.
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By winning a drawn-out fight to protect his powers as commander in chief to wage war and keep Americans safe.
Using materials never before available to historians, biographer Geoffrey Perret has fashioned a revealing portrait of Dwight David Eisenhower, the Allied Commander in Europe during World War II and the 34th president of the United States.
Serbia's path to becoming an EU candidate was given a boost last year when two major war crimes suspects - former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic and former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic - were arrested.
There's even a footnote in the majority opinion where the Court specifically says, when Congress enacts limitations in a wartime context, normally the president is obligated to comply with them even though he's the commander in chief conducting the war.
Now, earlier in the war, a U.S. commander on the ground reached a temporary cease-fire with the MEK which he justified on the grounds that it enabled our forces to contain the MEK forces in cantonment areas, while not having to fight against them or to actively disarm them.
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We Were Soldiers is a Vietnam War drama that stars Mel Gibson as the commander of an embattled U.S. Army battalion.
David Petraeus, the current Central Intelligence Agency director who at the time was the commander in charge of the Afghanistan war.
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Zdravko Tolimir, a close aide to Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic during the Bosnian War, is accused of war crimes at the international tribunal at The Hague.
During World War II, Nixon served as a Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific.
Tommy Franks, the top U.S. military commander in the region, says the war is complete.
Above all, it involved an intimate knowledge of the enemy which perhaps only an African commander can muster in this sort of war.
His arrest means that General Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serbs' former army commander, is the only major alleged war criminal indicted by the court who is still at large, at least occasionally, in Serbia.
McCain and was commander of the Pacific Theater during the Vietnam War, when Jack's father, now Arizona Sen.
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