Military Command

Roles: commander, subordinate, order, chain-of-command, delegation, authority, rank, execution

Hierarchical authority structures where orders flow downward and accountability flows upward. Unlike war’s focus on conflict, military command emphasizes the internal organization of authority: who can give orders, who must obey, and how responsibility transfers through ranks. This frame underlies much software architecture thinking — command patterns, delegation chains, and the very idea of “executing” instructions.

As Source Frame (8)

• Chain of Command → organizational-behavior
• Concentration of Force
• OODA Loop
• Skunkworks → collaborative-work
• The Chain of Responsibility Pattern → object-oriented-design
• The Command Pattern → object-oriented-design
• The Strategy Pattern → object-oriented-design
• Unity of Command → organizational-behavior