With allies and partners, we will enhance stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region by promoting security cooperation, encouraging peaceful development, responding to contingencies, deterring aggression, and, when necessary, fighting to win. Government agencies, the territory of the United States, its people, and its interests. United States Indo-Pacific Command protects and defends, in concert with other U.S. 5.8 Transfers of responsibility, 2002–2006.5.7 Boundary adjustment and Alaskan Command, 1989.5.1 Establishment of unified commands in the Pacific.4 Ballistic missile warning for the United States outside of NORAD: Hawaii, Guam, & the Pacific region.The USINDOPACOM headquarters building, the Nimitz-MacArthur Pacific Command Center, is located on Camp H. Pacific Command Joint Intelligence Operations Center (JIOC) and the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DMHA), as well as a Standing Joint Task Force, Joint Interagency Task Force West (JIATF-W).

USINDOPACOM also has two direct reporting units (DRUs)-U.S. Forces Korea, Special Operations Command Korea, and Special Operations Command Pacific. Army Pacific, Marine Forces Pacific, U.S. The commander reports to the President of the United States through the Secretary of Defense and is supported by service component and subordinate unified commands, including U.S. military officer in the Pacific, is responsible for military operations in an area that encompasses more than 100 million square miles (260,000,000 km 2), or roughly 52 percent of the Earth's surface, stretching from the waters of the West Coast of the United States to the east coast maritime borderline waters of Pakistan at the meridian 66° longitude east of Greenwich and from the Arctic to the Antarctic. It is the oldest and largest of the unified combatant commands. Indo-Pacific Command on, in recognition of the increasing connectivity between the Indian and Pacific oceans. United States Indo-Pacific Command ( USINDOPACOM) is a unified combatant command of the United States Armed Forces responsible for the Indo-Pacific region.įormerly known as United States Pacific Command ( USPACOM) since its inception, the command was renamed to U.S.

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