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 ...

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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.

FORSCOM is the largest United States Army command and provider of expeditionary, regionally engaged, campaign-capable land forces to combatant commanders. Forces Command trains and prepares a ...

Two top Republican lawmakers who lead military oversight committees expressed concern on Wednesday over a possible shake-up of the United States’s combatant command structure. The Trump ...

Back in 2015, former Sen. John McCain brought the idea up during a Senate hearing focused on streamlining the combatant command structure. Retired Adm. James Stavridis, who served as the head of ...

Two defense officials told NBC that the Trump administration was mulling over a significant restructuring of U.S. military combatant commands and headquarters to save money. ADVERTISEMENT “U.S ...

This story is part of the National Geographic 33. The son of nomadic sheep farmers and a member of Turkey’s ethnic Kurdish minority, Hamdi Ulukaya was the first in his family to go to college ...