United States Indo-Pacific Command

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The United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), secondarily known as the United States Pacific Command (USPACOM), is the unified combatant command of the United States Armed Forces responsible for the Indo-Pacific region. It is the oldest and largest of the unified combatant commands. Its commander, the senior U.S. military officer in the Pacific, is responsible for more than 375,000 service members, as well as an area that encompasses more than 100 million square miles (260,000,000 km2), or roughly 52 percent of the Earth's surface. This area stretches from the waters of the West Coast of the United States to the west coast maritime borderline waters of India, at the meridian 66° longitude line (east of Greenwich), and from the Bering Sea to the Antarctic. Founded in 1947 as U.S. Pacific Command, it was renamed U.S. Indo-Pacific Command in 2018 as an acknowledgment of India–United States relations. In 2026, the Department of Defense rebranded the command as "United States Pacific...

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