Giving orders...

[Godot51]

This current failure of an administration believes that giving orders is how to maintain control, how to show who is in control, and how to advance their control and their agenda.

Frank Herbert wrote in "Dune" about orders.

Duke Leto to Paul:
“Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.”