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The Unified Command Plan (UCP) establishes the missions, command responsibilities, and geographic areas of responsibility of the combatant commands. [a] Each time the Unified Command Plan is updated, the organization of the combatant commands is reviewed for military efficiency and efficacy, as well as alignment with national policy. [4] [5]
The Geographic Commands. The United States has eleven Combatant Commands (COCOM); seven Geographical Combatant Commands (GCC) & four Functional Combatant Commands (FCC). GCCs: U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM) U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM)
The Inspector General of the Army (IG) maintains open channels of communication for extraordinary issues which might lie outside the purview of the chain of command; it lists points of contact for the 3 Army Commands (ACOMs), the 11 Army Service Component Commands (ASCCs), and 12 Direct Reporting Units (DRUs). [4]
According to U.S. Army Doctrine, a theater army headquarters is the army service component command assigned to a geographic combatant command. It is organized, manned and equipped to perform 3 roles: Theater army for the geographic combatant command; Joint task force headquarters (with augmentation) for limited contingency operations
The Pentagon, headquarters of the United States Department of Defense.. The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has a complex organizational structure.It includes the Army, Navy, the Marine Corps, Air Force, Space Force, the Unified combatant commands, U.S. elements of multinational commands (such as NATO and NORAD), as well as non-combat agencies such as the Defense Intelligence Agency ...
Area of responsibility (AOR) is a pre-defined geographic region assigned to Combatant commanders of the Unified Command Plan (UCP), that are used to define an area with specific geographic boundaries where they have the authority to plan and conduct operations; for which a force, or component commander bears a certain responsibility.
On 1 July 1917, almost three months after the American entry into World War I, the Panama Canal Department was activated as a geographic command of the U.S. Army. It remained as the senior Army headquarters in the region until activation of the Caribbean Defense Command (CDC) on 10 February 1941.
The Army Departments were reorganized under new Divisions until 1907, when the Division echelon was disbanded. Atlantic Division, 1903–07 Department of the East, 1903–13; Department of the Gulf, 1904–13; Northern Division, 1904–07 Department of Dakota, 1904–11; Department of the Lakes, 1904–11; Department of the Missouri, 1904–07