1.   Battlefield commanders, accustomed to waiting hours, sometimes days, for the results of reconnaissance missions, now receive airborne battlefield views instantly on color monitors.

2.   But rapid advances in computer and communications technology, combined with the success of the Predator surveillance aircraft in Afghanistan, have turned battlefield commanders into true believers.

3.   Despite such misgivings, battlefield commanders here found the technology holds huge potential.

4.   It did not do so well there, Pike said, but by the time it saw action in Kosovo, battlefield commanders began to recognize its potential.

5.   Only one major figure, the battlefield commander Ta Mok, has not given up or been welcomed back by the government.

6.   Only one senior figure, the battlefield commander Ta Mok, remains at large.

7.   Teddy Kennedy was figuratively wounded there, too, when he piped up in Washington second-guessing the battlefield commanders.

8.   The younger man was raised on a kibbutz and toughened as a battlefield commander.

9.   A Defense Ministry spokesman Thursday said a senior battlefield commander abandoned his post near the Afghan capital, allowing a key military base to fall into opposition hands.

10.   The aircraft was used as a surveillance aid that can transmit video images to battlefield commanders.