When the German motorized forces were met with a counterattack at Arras, British tanks with heavy armour ( Matilda I & IIs ) created a brief panic in the German High Command.

At the British Bomber Command, Dyson and colleagues proposed ripping out two gun turrets from the RAF Lancaster bombers, to cut the catastrophic losses to German fighters in the Battle of Berlin.

Rommel complained bitterly about the failure of important Italian convoys to get through to him desperately needed tanks and supplies-always blaming the Italian Supreme Command, never suspecting British codebreaking.

Accra, in the British colony of the Gold Coast, was also the location of the British Army ’ s Headquarters West Africa Command which remained there until its disbandment in 1956.

However, following a visit in early August to Egypt by British prime minister Winston Churchill and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Alan Brooke, Alexander flew to Cairo on 8 August to replace Claude Auchinleck as the Commander-in-Chief of Middle East Command, the post responsible for the overall conduct of the campaign in the desert of North Africa.

British Army troops, part of Middle East Command and comprising 25th Armoured Brigade and briefly 10th Armoured Division, were still present after independence and stayed in Libya until at least 1957.

* OSS Detachment 404: attached to British South East Asia Command in Kandy, Ceylon

** Community Safety, Enforcement and Policing, responsible for tackling fare evasion on buses, delivering policing services that tackle crime and disorder on public transport in cooperation with the Metropolitan Police Service's Transport Operational Command Unit ( TOCU ) and the British Transport Police.

A white paper produced by the Royal Air Force for the British government in 1961 claimed that the RAF's nuclear force was capable of destroying key Soviet cities such as Moscow and Kiev before bomber aircraft from the United States ' Strategic Air Command had entered Soviet airspace, " taking into account Bomber Command ’ s ability to be on target in the first wave several hours in advance of the main SAC force operating from bases in the United States .".

* The Angel's Command, a children's adventure novel by British writer Brian Jacques, is set in the year 1628.

A top-secret White Paper, compiled by the Royal Air Force and produced for the British Government in 1959, estimated that British atomic bombers were capable of destroying key cities and military targets in the Soviet Union, with an estimated 16 million deaths in the USSR ( half of whom were estimated to be killed on impact and the rest fatally injured ) before bomber aircraft from the US Strategic Air Command reached their targets.

A report from the British Bomber Command stated the military target was the railway marshalling yard Dresden-Friedrichstadt.

In the waters around the British Isles and out into the Atlantic Ocean, operations against enemy shipping and submarines in support of the RN were mounted by RAF Coastal Command with large partol bombers and flying boats and land-based fighter-bombers.

Because the C-47s served as paratrooper transports and glider tugs and because IX Troop Carrier Command would provide all the transports for both British parachute brigades, this massive force could deliver only 60 % of the ground forces in one lift.

Arthur Harris, AOC Bomber Command ( nicknamed " Bomber " Harris in the British press, and known as an ardent supporter of area bombing ) was asked for his opinion, and proposed a simultaneous attack on Chemnitz, Leipzig and Dresden.

As US forces were focusing on the Japanese home islands, the archipelago was put under the jurisdiction of British Admiral Earl Louis Mountbatten, the Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command.

Command control on the British side disintegrated, and the perimeter was driven slowly inwards toward Dunkirk.

Liddell Hart says British Fighter Command lost 106 aircraft dogfighting over Dunkirk, and the Luftwaffe lost about 135 – some of which were shot down by the French Navy and the Royal Navy ; but MacDonald says the British lost 177 aircraft and the Germans lost 240.

How the War Was Won: Command and Technology in the British Army on the Western Front, 1917 – 1918 ,.

The military Command and Staff College was founded by the British in 1905, its centennial was celebrated in 2005.

* 1945 – World War II: Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.

All Belarus ground forces were now grouped within these two commands, the Western Operational Command at Grodno, former from the previous 28th Army Corps, the former Soviet 28th Army, and the North Western Operational Command, the former 65th Army Corps, at Borisov.

The Eastern Military High Command, civilian institutions, and paramilitary forces were collapsed and disbanded.

All of these armed forces were commanded by the unified command structure, the Eastern Military High Command, led by an officer of three-star rank equivalent.

The National Military Command Center in Kabul serves as the headquarters of the Afghan armed forces.

Used by operators at the 614th Air and Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., the 614 AOC's 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week support provides vigilance of global and theater operations and equips the Joint Functional Component Command for space operations with the tools to conduct command and control of space forces.

In January 2002, over 1, 200 soldiers from the United States Special Operations Command Pacific ( SOCPAC ) deployed to the Philippines to support the Armed Forces of the Philippines ( AFP ) in their push to uproot terrorist forces on the island of Basilan.

On May 18, 1980, a confrontation broke out in the city of Gwangju between protesting students of Chonnam National University and the armed forces dispatched by the Martial Law Command.

While the Waffen-SS remained officially outside the armed forces ( Wehrmacht ) and under Himmler's authority, they were placed under the operational command of the Armed Forces High Command ( OKW ) or Army High Command ( OKH ), and were largely funded by the Wehrmacht.

He then became Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation ( a newly established body with legislative and executive powers for what was described as a transitional period ), and assumed the posts of chief of state, prime minister, chief of the armed forces, and minister of defense.

The situation began to change on 19 October 1948, when Lieutenant General Curtis LeMay assumed leadership of the Strategic Air Command, a position he held until June 1957, the longest tenure for any United States armed forces commander since Winfield Scott.

Strategic Air Command in the United Kingdom was among the command's largest overseas concentrations of forces, with additional forces at bases in North Africa during the 1950s and 1960s in addition to SAC bomber, tanker, and / or reconnaissance aircraft assets at the former Ramey AFB, Puerto Rico in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and at Andersen AFB, Guam, RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom and the former NAS Keflavik, Iceland through the 1990s.

The forces at the disposal of the German Command may never be accurately known.

RAF Bomber Command attrition attacks against air defense targets in Warsaw Pact and European Russia alone by the V-Force ( in prosecuting their initial attacks upon the Soviet Union ) would be decisive in ensuring that NATO and SAC follow-on forces attacks would be successful in achieving the destruction of Soviet and Warsaw Pact targets.

The Warsaw Treaty ’ s organization was two-fold: the Political Consultative Committee handled political matters, and the Combined Command of Pact Armed Forces controlled the assigned multi-national forces, with headquarters in Warsaw, Poland.

He sent his army, along with the Syrian-backed Palestinian factions of as-Sa ' iqa and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command ( PFLP-GC ) led by Ahmad Jibril to fight alongside the radical right-wing Christian forces against the PLO and the LNM.

Command of US forces in the Philippines passes to Major General Jonathan M. Wainwright.

The Pacific Command recognized Vietnam as a potential hot spot for unconventional forces.

By 1988, the U. S. Department of Defense ( DoD ) issued Instruction 4630. 8 ( reissued in 1992, 2002, 2004 ) stating its policy that “ all forces for joint and combined operations be supported through compatible, interoperable, and integrated Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence systems.

* Looking Glass is USSTRATCOM's Airborne Command Post, designed to take over in case NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain Directorate is destroyed or incapable of communicating with strategic forces.

This project was carried out under sponsorship of the Ballistic Missile Division of the Air Research and Development Command, U.S. Air Force, and had as its goal the investigation of the transport by diffusion of the heat energy of chemical binding.

Young and Duke, in the LM, successfully rendezvoused and re-docked with Ken Mattingly, who had remained in orbit to perform observations while his fellow crewmembers explored the surface, in the Command / Service Module.

In 1999 after a creation of the Ministry of Defence ( MoD ), the Aeronautic Ministry changed its designation to Aeronautic Command, but no big changes happened to the air force structure, it kept almost the same organization it had before.

The " Command & Conquer " video game series had cyborgs as a part of its plot-specifically Cyborgs created by the " Brotherhood of Nod " via Tiberium Infusion experimentation.

These groups — the Nazi party and government leadership, the German General Staff and High Command ( OKW ); the Sturmabteilung ( SA ); the Schutzstaffel ( SS ), including the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ); and the Gestapo — had an aggregate membership exceeding two million, making a large number of their members liable to trial if the organisations were convicted.

Two deacons go to priest-elect who, at that point, had been standing alone in the middle of the church, and bow him down to the west ( to the people ) and to the east ( to the clergy ), asking their consent by saying “ Command ye !” and then lead him through the holy doors of the altar where the archdeacon asks the bishop ’ s consent, saying, “ Command, most sacred master !” after which a priest escorts the candidate three times around the Holy Table, during which he kisses each corner of the Holy Table as well as the bishop's epigonation and right hand and prostrates himself before the holy table at each circuit.

In the final design, the SWS and ATM were launched together, but for the single-launch concept to work, the ATM had to pivot 90 degrees on a truss structure from its launch position to its on-orbit orientation, clearing the way for the crew to dock its Apollo Command / Service Module at the axial docking port of the Multiple Docking Adapter.

A separate Air Defence Command had SA-2, SA-3, SA-5 Gammon, and SA-8b Gecko, plus guns.

In March 1985, it was announced that the National Command of the Revolutionary Forces Command in the Arab Nation had been formed with Gaddafi at its head.

In January 2372 ( Stardate 49011 ) the Klingon Empire attacked the Cardassian Union, believing the Detapa Council of Cardassia ( which had just come to power in the wake of the Cardassian Central Command being overthrown, making it the first civilian government of the Cardassian Union with Gul Dukat as military advisor ) had been infiltrated by the Dominion (" The Way of the Warrior ").

The Air Defence Command had command access to interceptor aircraft and radar facilities.

Perhaps the most serious occurred in an " Air Threat Conference Call " initiated by the National Military Command Center ( NMCC ) after two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center, but shortly before The Pentagon was hit.

The scenes of Air Force personnel aboard the Airborne Command Post receiving news of the incoming attack are footage of actual military personnel during a drill and had been aired several years earlier in a 1979 PBS documentary, First Strike.

On 9 June ( 3 days after D-day ), sent a message to German High Command that reached Adolf Hitler saying that he had conferred with his agents and developed an order of battle showing 75 divisions in England – in reality, there were only about 50.

One of the last games released by Westwood, Command & Conquer: Renegade ( an action game, which mixed elements from first-person shooters and real-time strategy games ) failed to meet consumer expectations and commercial goals Electronic Arts had set for it.

In March 1966 he was selected as Senior Pilot ( second seat ) for the first manned Apollo flight, designated AS-204, along with Command Pilot Virgil " Gus " Grissom, who had flown in space on the Mercury 4 Liberty Bell 7 mission and as commander of the Gemini 3 Molly Brown mission, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, who had yet to fly into space.

It was reported that Blatter had " cut an unofficial deal with UEFA head Michel Platini " to ensure Europe would receive the 2018 World Cup, such that if the non-European bids did not withdraw from 2018 " they will find themselves frozen out and not given any backing by the FIFA High Command, damaging their chances of being serious contenders for the second tournament.

White Christmas, Strategic Air Command, To Catch a Thief and The Battle of the River Plate ( a. k. a. Pursuit of the Graf Spee ) had very limited ( two or three ) prints struck in the 8-perf VistaVision format in which they were shot.