high command
Military decision makers
High command refers to the senior military officers who direct a nation's armed forces during wartime, or the headquarters where such leadership operates.
The term emphasizes the authority and strategic decision-making power concentrated at the top of a military hierarchy.
The high command issued orders for a full retreat.
By extension, high command sometimes describes the top leadership of any large organization, though this use carries a slightly ironic or militaristic tone.
Central command location
- leadershipAbility to direct others
- generalsBroad statements or commanders
- admiralsSenior naval commanders
- marshalsOrganizes or assembles
brass · top-brass · pentagon · war-room · council · hierarchy · jurisdiction · supremacy
Instructions to obey
- deploymentOrganized distribution of resources
- logisticsCoordination of complex activities
- coordinationOrganized cooperative movement
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
directive · execution · management · direction · control · planning · mobilization · intelligence
Organized effort toward goal
- battleplanOrganized approach to warfare
- warfareArmed conflict between groups
- offensiveCausing displeasure or attack-oriented
- defenseProtection against harm
counterattack · tactics · maneuver · reconnaissance · operation
headquarters
Central command location
- leadershipAbility to direct others
- generalsBroad statements or commanders
- admiralsSenior naval commanders
marshals · brass · top-brass · pentagon · war-room · council · hierarchy · jurisdiction · supremacy · sovereignty
orders
Instructions to obey
- deploymentOrganized distribution of resources
- logisticsCoordination of complex activities
- coordinationOrganized cooperative movement
supervision · directive · execution · management · direction · control · planning · mobilization · intelligence · communications
campaign
Organized effort toward goal
- battleplanOrganized approach to warfare
- warfareArmed conflict between groups
- offensiveCausing displeasure or attack-oriented
defense · counterattack · tactics · maneuver · reconnaissance · operation
- militarysoldiers, army, troops, officers, navy
- Top Brassgeneral, admiral, colonel, brigadier, commodore
- military leadershipgeneral, admiral, chief of staff, defense secretary, defense minister
- WehrmachtWehrmacht, Luftwaffe, Panzer, Waffen-SS, Rommel
- military officerscolonel, general, officers, major, admirals
- military ranksgeneral, captain, major, sergeant, private
high commandenlisted ranks
Non-officer military members
rank and file · foot soldiers · privates · enlisted personnel · grunts
high commandsubordinates
Those ranked below
underlings · rank and file · bottom rung · workforce · grassroots
high, command, higher, highest, highly, highness, commands, commanded, commanding