Command

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Command—the art, science, practice, or means of administering and maneuvering an armed force—has undergone much change since early humans first engaged in primitive, “each-man-for-himself” battles. Among Homeric warriors, there was little semblance of a chain of command; those most successful in single combat earned the respect of their fellows and a limited authority that dissolved in the heat of individual battle. By the fifth century b.c.e., the Greeks had developed the phalanx, a military organization directed by a crude command system. The Romans, however, created the most...

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