The Defense Department's 11 unified combatant commands each comprise units from multiple U.S. military service branches. They are assigned areas of responsibility based on geography or function. The ...

Closing geographic commands introduces political risk, as some nations could feel the U.S. has deprioritized them. It also leaves combatant commanders with large geographic areas of ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology. She ...

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The Republican chairs of the House and Senate Armed Services committees issued a joint statement Wednesday criticizing the idea of the U.S. drastically changing its military combatant command stru ...

With the Pentagon reportedly undertaking widespread restructuring of combatant commands, there is a plan to potentially abandon the U.S. role of SACEUR, or the NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

First, the geographic combatant commands would be reorganized around threats such as China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and Homeland Defense, with each command responsible for planning and ...

U.S. Space Command, established in 2019 and headquartered at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado, is one of the military’s unified combatant commands. While it doesn’t procure weapon systems ...