chain of command

The directive had come from the Pentagon, and filtered down through her chain of command at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

In the past ten days, intense Israeli strikes have inflicted more damage on Iran's chain of command and military hardware than its eight-year war with Iraq, which still casts a long shadow across Iranian society.

In a surprise attack in the dead of night, Israel took out several of Iran’s top military chain of command.

"Unacceptable and criminal behaviour has absolutely no place in our Armed Forces and any reporting of a serious crime by serving personnel is investigated independently from their chain of command," the MoD said.

Ford claimed in its filing that the scheme “has an informal governing structure that at certain times operates as a command hierarchy,” meaning it had a chain of command.