Chain Of Command
A command hierarchy is a group of people dedicated to carrying out orders "from the top", that is, of authority. It is part of a power structure: usually seen as the most vulnerable and also the most powerful part of it.
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“It is the future that creates his present.
All is an interminable chain of longing.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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