Summary
Senior British military commanders are determined that the Black Watch will be kept on a tight rein throughout their 30 day deployment under US command in their new tactical area of operations 20 miles south of Baghdad.
While the Black Watch's commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel James Cowan, will come under the tactical control of his superior officer in the US Marine Corps, all sensitive decisions about command and control will be referred back to British headquarters in Basra and, if necessary, to Whitehall. Conceding that the decision to deploy the Black Watch under US control had ultimately become "a political decision", a senior military source told the Sunday Herald: "The Watch will not be ordered to follow US orders blindly and without regard to their own rules of engagement, which are well understood by all British soldiers in Iraq."See the full content of this document
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Black Watch Will Not Blindly Follow Us Orders; Analysis
What this means is that Cowan will be in daily contact with the US divisional commander, but will run his battle group under British rules of engagement, which will allow him to operate using British military doctrine. This is ...
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