commander
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Even the Danes, with all their emphasis on learning the lessons of Ukraine, have only a small amount of drones, though more would come in case of conflict, the commander said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Gen. John Shaw, who was deputy commander of U.S.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
New York City claims the earliest aerial traffic report, in the summer of 1935, by a police commander who monitored the weekend flow of Fords from a Goodyear blimp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The borough commander for Elmbridge Chris Thoday told BBC South East the tactics used by these groups were "pretty sophisticated".
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
She’d changed since my Lincoln simulation and looked every inch the commander in chief in her fitted black uniform.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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About 30 checkpoints along the route marked stretches of road controlled by different commanders – a clear sign of the fractured make-up of the forces fighting on the government side.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
In his most draconian move yet, the Pentagon polygraphed some 50 high-ranking military officers and civilian officials on the Joint Staff, which coordinates operations, policy and war plans with combatant commanders worldwide.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
But it is unusual for so many commanders to file such notes all at once in the middle of a combat operation.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
During the first hour, pine grove owners urged fire commanders to light a backfire a few hundred yards from Le Porge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Regimental commanders shouted for order, but there was no maintaining it.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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