COCOM Realignment

[Infanteer]

Caught this. If this goes down, it represents a generational shift in how the US organizes and commands its global operations.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2000701966880514355

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Implications?

 

[Lumber]

Implications?

Less regional expertise. Slower decision making.

 

[Infanteer]

Implications?

Consider it akin to the making of the DotComs, or the smashing of all of them into CJOC, but with a superpower and not a small military like ours. Combatant Commanders are at times referred to as Proconsuls due to the influence they wield in their respective regions - an Ambassador is responsible to the President for the diplomatic relationship with one country, but the CentCom Commander is responsible to the President for the military relationship with 40 plus countries.

 

[McG]

AMERICOM for everything North & South America, International Command for everywhere else, and Support Command for a few capabilities including space & cyber. That would be a major consolidation of HQs.

 

[Infanteer]

Its being billed as a way to reduce GOFO ranks, specifically 4* positions, but some of those positions are not reducable based on the scope of the command - e.g. SACEUR/EUCOM Comd can't be reduced to a 3*.

 

[McG]

Retired Captains are really no better than retired Corporals to strategically oversee a defence department … they may even be worse if they believe the commission somehow gave greater institutional insight from their tactical level career.

 

[Blackadder1916]

Implications?

Fewer commanders to object to questionable orders?