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| | "Command" versus "Operational Control:" A Critical Review of PDD-25 |
 | | 3 The Directive defines "command" of United States armed forces and "operational control" of those forces, distinguishes the two, and maintains that although the President never relinquishes "command" over United States military personnel, he may place United States military personnel under the "operational control" of a non-U.S. commander for limited and defined purposes. |
 | | 98 The directive declares that this position is not a new one, and it cites instances from history in which U.S. troops, according to the directive, have served under the "operational control" of foreign commanders, the most notable being "World War I, World War II, Operations Desert Storm and. |
 | | Schaffter, supra note 56, at 19 ("To 'command' is to 'direct.' In military affairs, one of the phases of command is the determination of the paces to which armed forces shall be moved."). |
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