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Encyclopedia > Combatant commanders

A Unified Combatant Command is composed of forces from two or more services, has a broad and continuing mission, and is organized either on a geographical basis (known as "Area Of Responsibility", AOR) or on a functional basis.


Currently (August 2005), there are nine Unified Combatant Commands. Five have regional responsibilities, and four have functional responsibilities. Note: as an adjective (stressed on the second syllable instead of the first), august means honorable. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


The chain of command runs from the President to the Secretary of Defense to the Commanders of the Unified Combatant Commands. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff may transmit communications to the Commanders of the Unified Combatant Commands from the President and Secretary of Defense but does not exercise military command over any combatant forces. The President of the United States (often abbreviated POTUS) is the head of state of the United States. ... The United States Secretary of Defense is the head of the United States Department of Defense, concerned with the armed services and The Secretary is a member of the Presidents Cabinet. ... The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is by law the highest ranking military officer of the United States military, and the principal military advisor to the President of the United States. ...


List of Unified Combatant Commands

Regional Responsibilities:

Functional Responsibilities: Emblem of the United States Central Command. ... The U.S. European Command (EUCOM) is Unified Combatant Command of the United States military, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. ... The United States Pacific Command operates from suburban Honolulu in south central Oahu at the Nimitz-MacArthur Pacific Command Center. ... Emblem of the United States Northern Command. ... The United States Southern Command (also called SOUTHCOM) is responsible for all United States military activities in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean basin. ...

U.S. Joint Forces Command is one of nine unified combatant commands of the U.S. military. ... Emblem of the United States Special Operations Command. ... United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) is one of nine US unified commands of the United States Department of Defense which controls the nuclear weapons assets of the United States military. ... The United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) is one of nine unified commands of the United Statess Department of Defense. ...

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Introduction - Unified Command (917 words)
The UCP establishes combatant command missions, responsibilities, and force structure; delineates geographic areas of responsibility for geographic combatant commanders; and specifies functional responsibilities for functional combatant commanders.
The commanders of combatant commands exercise combatant command (command authority) (COCOM) of assigned forces and are directly responsible to the NCA for the performance of assigned missions and the preparedness of their commands.
Combatant commanders prescribe the chain of command within their commands and designate the appropriate level of command authority to be exercised by subordinate commanders.
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