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While the commander is an individual, the academic debate centres on whether command is an individual act or a form of a collective. British sociologist Anthony King argued for the emergence of a command collective in Western military forces in his 2019 book Command. Others have argued against King's thesis, stating that it romanticises the collective, that contemporary commanders themselves do not understand their function in this way, or that it may be the case. Still, collective forms of command are less effective in actual combat. U.S. Marine

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