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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]
On 20 January 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order instructing the Secretary of Defense to give Northern Command the mission to "seal the borders and maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the United States," requiring the secretary to revise the Unified Command Plan within 10 days in accordance with ...
The President of the United States is, according to the Constitution, the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces and Chief Executive of the Federal Government. The Secretary of Defense is the "Principal Assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense", and is vested with statutory authority (10 U.S.C. § 113) to lead the Department and all of its component ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will unveil a plan next month to restructure the U.S. military command in Japan in the face of shared ...
This plan transferred the JIOWC’s Information Operations, Military Deception, and Operations Security missions from USSTRATCOM to the Joint Staff [2] as a Chairman-controlled activity (CCA). On January 30, 2018, the JIOWC was awarded the Joint Meritorious Unit Award for meritorious service or achievement during the period of service from ...
A unified combatant command is a military command composed of personnel/equipment from at least two Military Departments, which has a broad, continuing mission. [32] They are responsible for the operational command of forces. Almost all operational U.S. forces are under the authority of a Unified Command. [31]
The United States Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) is the largest United States Army command. It provides land forces to the Department of Defense's (DOD) unified combatant commands. Headquartered at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, FORSCOM consists of more than 750,000 active Army, U.S. Army Reserve, and Army National Guard soldiers.
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