This dimension names the commander who led one side of a specific battle. Wikipedia quotes the strategist Carl von Clausewitz, who held that "the employment of battles ... to achieve the object of war" was the essence of strategy, a strategy that in every battle is directed by a named commander. Browsing this way collects every battle led by the same commander.
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Commander
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1. War and Military Atlas Periodization (Ruling 761)
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this wave adds a fifth SubLabel value used only by this type, Contemporary, covering 1945 onward, with Modern for military-operation narrowed to pre-1945 only.
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