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.