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A military command or order is a binding instruction given by a senior rank to a junior rank in a military context. Not all senior ranks in all military have the right to give an order to all lower ranks.
A military command or order is a binding instruction given by a senior rank to a junior rank in a military context. Not all senior ranks in all military have the right to give an order to all lower ranks.George Breckenridge Davis
George Breckenridge Davis (February 13, 1847 – December 16, 1914) was the tenth Judge Advocate General of the United States Army.
Davis was born at Ware, Massachusetts. In 1863, at the age of 16 years, he enlisted in the 1st Massachusetts Vo ...
, ''A Treatise on the Military Law of the United States,'' 1913 1584776501 p385 "A staff officer has, except by assignment, no right to give a military order to an officer of the line ; if he should do so without stating that he did so in the name of a superior to the line officer, such order would be invalid." A general order is a published directive by an officer in a command post, which is binding on all ranks under his command, and intended to enforce a policy or procedure.
US military
In the US military an operations order is a plan format meant which is intended to assist subordinate units with the conduct of military operations.See also
* Superior orders * Führerprinzip * Nuremberg principlesReferences
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