Everything has probably been said on this topic; command has been the subject of numerous essays, as well as many detailed accounts by famous men and great wartime leaders, masters of the art. For all that, to the author’s knowledge libraries contain no works which claim to lay down the rules of command, doubtless for the simple reason that probably none exists for the head of a family or a minister either. He therefore offers some observations, not original but chosen in the light of his own experience, as a personal view.