The goal of tactical warning is to inform operational commanders of an event requiring immediate action.

"As glad as any operational commander ever is to see someone from Washington," the Admiral replied.

Before taking over the group's command, American officials said, he was a senior operational commander, supplying suicide bombers and car bombs.

Allows the monitoring of the battlefield by the operational commanders.

Frank, the operational commander of the little army, was riding up front.

When Kiselov received this order, he used his new position as overall operational commander to make several changes to the plan.

He is the operational commander of the Khudra station, which has 92 officers.

"Capability also offers considerable cost-of-ownership benefits to and operational commanders."

Instead, policy makers and operational commanders are trying to sketch out the broad outlines of the confrontation they expect.

They want to refer everything to the operational commander.