Europe under extreme duress

[Randy Daytona]

From the WP tonight:

Pentagon plan calls for major power shifts within U.S. military​

It would reduce in prominence the headquarters of U.S. Central Command, U.S. European Command and U.S. Africa Command by placing them under the control of a new organization known as U.S. International Command, according to five people familiar with the matter.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/12/15/military-command-plan-caine-hegseth/

 

[Brett327]

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.