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Europe under extreme duress
- Thread starter Randy Daytona
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So, we'll have an International Command, an Americas Command, but also an Indo-Pacific Command (that is somehow less international than the other AORs? Not a particularly coherent naming convention. While I wouldn't mind seeing CENTCOM taken down a few notches on the totem pole, and the AFRICOM experiment go away, I do not trust this administration, or those at OSD, to be effective implementers of change. This will ultimately be someone else's mess to clean up. Curious how much concurrence from Congress will be required to get this ball rolling.
Although it was dismissed, I like the idea of a “Global Command” to net the odd-offs like Special Operations, Cyber, and Space, tools that are routinely used globally. I equally understand that such a move could potentially add an unnecessary layer between combatant commands. I think some of the command titles are murky when what we are seeing is a western hemisphere command (Americas Command) an eastern hemisphere command (International Command) and a water hemisphere command (IndoPac Command).
3 hemispheres, so the planet is ManBearPig now?
Kind of. You have the old “western” and “eastern” hemispheres and then you have the “northern” and “southern” hemispheres. But in the 1880’s some clever map maker came up with the idea of two hemispheres…land and water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_water_hemispheres
So basically the new defense geography is “Us,” “Eurotrash/Euro-Adjacent Trash,” and “Wet Parts.”
Still, when it comes to ManBearPig DoD better get cereal.