The Weight of Command
The Weight of Command

Author: J.L. Granatstein

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2016-08-01

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0774833025

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Three-quarters of a century after the Second World War, almost all the participants are gone. This book contains interviews with and about the Canadian who led the troops during that war. Edited and introduced by one of the foremost military historians of our time, this carefully curated collection brings to life the generals and their wartime experiences. The interviews are based on lengthy conversations that J.L. Granatstein had with the surviving generals, their key staff officers, fighters under their command, and their families. Generals McNaughton, Crerar, Simonds, Foulkes, and Burns are among those discussed. The content is revealing and conversations frank. Peers and subordinates alike scrutinize key commanders of the war, sometimes offering praise but often passing harsh judgment. We learn of their failings and successes – and of the heavy weight of command borne by all.

Command in War
Command in War

Author: Martin Van Creveld

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0674257219

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Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two thousand years from ancient Greece to Vietnam. It treats historically the whole variety of problems involved in commanding armies, including staff organization and administration, communications methods and technologies, weaponry, and logistics. And it analyzes the relationship between these problems and military strategy. In vivid descriptions of key battles and campaigns—among others, Napoleon at Jena, Moltke’s Königgrätz campaign, the Arab–Israeli war of 1973, and the Americans in Vietnam—Martin van Creveld focuses on the means of command and shows how those means worked in practice. He finds that technological advances such as the railroad, breech-loading rifles, the telegraph and later the radio, tanks, and helicopters all brought commanders not only new tactical possibilities but also new limitations. Although vast changes have occurred in military thinking and technology, the one constant has been an endless search for certainty—certainty about the state and intentions of the enemy’s forces; certainty about the manifold factors that together constitute the environment in which war is fought, from the weather and terrain to radioactivity and the presence of chemical warfare agents; and certainty about the state, intentions, and activities of one’s own forces. The book concludes that progress in command has usually been achieved less by employing more advanced technologies than by finding ways to transcend the limitations of existing ones.

The Command Book
The Command Book

Author: Stephen Mark Silvers

Publisher: Sky Oaks Productions, Incorporated

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780940296589

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A resource book of TPR commands for ESL/EFL teachers.

CCNP and CCIE Enterprise Core & CCNP Enterprise Advanced Routing Portable Command Guide
CCNP and CCIE Enterprise Core & CCNP Enterprise Advanced Routing Portable Command Guide

Author: Patrick Gargano

Publisher: Cisco Press

Published: 2020-03-26

Total Pages: 573

ISBN-13: 0135768276

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All ENCOR (350-401) and ENARSI (300-410) Commands in One Compact, Portable Resource Use this fully updated quick reference resource to help memorize commands and concepts as you earn your CCNP or CCIE certification. Filled with valuable, easy-to-access information, it’s portable enough to use anywhere. This guide summarizes all Cisco IOS software commands, keywords, command arguments, and associated prompts associated with the CCNP and CCIE Enterprise Core (ENCOR 350-401) and CCNP Enterprise Advanced Routing and Services (ENARSI 300-410) certification exams. Tips and examples help you apply commands to real-world scenarios, and configuration samples show their use in network designs. Coverage includes: Layer 2: VLANs, STP, Inter-VLAN Routing Layer 3: EIGRP, OSPF, Redistribution, Path Control, BGP Infrastructure Services and Management Infrastructure Security Network Assurance Wireless Security and Troubleshooting Overlays and Virtualization This Portable Command Guide provides: Logical how-to topic groupings for a one-stop resource Great for review before your ENCOR 350-401 and ENARSI 300-410 certification exams Compact size makes it easy to carry with you wherever you go “Create Your Own Journal” section with blank, lined pages enables you to personalize the book for your needs This book is part of the Cisco Press Certification Self-Study Product Family, which offers readers a self-paced study routine for Cisco certification exams. Titles in the Cisco Press Certification Self-Study Product Family are part of a recommended learning program from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press.

Emotions in Command
Emotions in Command

Author: Frank K. Salter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-08

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1351298542

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This book is part of a quest for a general theory of organizations valid in all cultures. Central to Frank Salter's investigation is the question of social power: why people obey their superiors. His approach is to locate the nature of organizational power in the behavioral details of hierarchical interactions in the institutional settings in which they occur.