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High command

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The phrase high command may refer to:

Non-fiction high commands

  • High Command of Capital Hanoi (Bộ tư lệnh Thủ đô Hà Nội) of Vietnam
  • German high commands up to and during World War I:
    • German Imperial Naval High Command (Kaiserliches Oberkommando der Marine), 1889-1899 German naval command
    • High Command of Coastal Defence (Küstenverteidigung), World War I German coastal defence
  • German high commands up to and during World War II:
    • German High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, OKW), German armed-forces command structure, 1938-1945
      • German Army High Command (Oberkommando des Heeres, OKH), de facto World War II German command on the Eastern front
      • Oberkommando der Luftwaffe (OKL), Luftwaffe high command, 1935-1945
      • Oberkommando der Marine (OKM), Kriegsmarine high command, 1936-1945
    • German High SS and Police Leader command (Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, HSSPF), 1939–1945, reporting only to Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler
  • High Command Trial, post-World War II war-crimes trial
  • Norwegian High Command (Forsvarets Overkommando), Norway's top military leadership from 1970 to 2003
  • Mobile Barracks of High Command (行轅), Chinese government regional office on behalf of a military commander
  • Stavka, the military high command of Russian and Soviet armed forces

In fiction

  • Vulcan High Command, in the fictional Star Trek universe
  • Squirrel High Command, in the action-adventure video game series Conker
  • The High Command, a 1938 British drama film

See also

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