The United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) is one of the eleven unified combatant commands in the United States Department of Defense. Headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, USSTRATCOM is responsible for strategic nucleardeterrence, global strike, and operating the Defense Department's Global Information Grid. It also provides a host of capabilities to support the other combatant commands, including integrated missile defense; and global command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR). This command exists to give "national leadership a unified resource for greater understanding of specific threats around the world and the means to respond to those threats rapidly".[1][2]
United States Strategic Command
Official Emblem of United States Strategic Command.
USSTRATCOM employs nuclear, cyber, global strike, joint electronic warfare, missile defense, and intelligence capabilities to deter aggression, decisively and accurately respond if deterrence fails, assure allies, shape adversary behavior, defeat terror, and define the force of the future.[3]
Embrace strategic deterrence, consisting of innovative joint fighting forces integrated and synchronized in multiple domains to ensure national security.
Ensure a decisive response to aggression, against any threat, when called upon by civilian national leadership.
Anticipate and meet tactical, theater, and strategic demands through operational plans and capability development.
Develop the next generation of people and capabilities in order to prevail in future conflicts.[3]
J1 – Human Capital: Develops and administers command manpower and personnel policies, human resources, and personnel assignment programs.[3]
J2 – Intelligence: Responsible for delivering all-source intelligence while enabling the execution of assigned strategic deterrence, space and cyberspace operations. Directs all intelligence-related support for the commander and ensures unity of intelligence effort across the Command.[3]
J3 – Global Operations: Coordinates the planning, employment and operation of DoD strategic assets and combines all current operations, intelligence, and global command and control operations. Subdivisions within J3 include Combat and Information Operations, Current Operations, Logistics, and Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (JEMSO).[3]
J4 – Logistics: The Logistics Directorate plans, coordinates and executes joint logistics functions, and provides capability-based readiness assessments and facilities management in support of U.S. Strategic Command's global mission.[3]
J5 – Plans and Policy: Responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of national security policy as it applies to the command and the execution of its mission. Develops future plans, policy and strategy across all mission areas as outlined in the Unified Command Plan.[3]
J6 – C4 Systems: Coordinates, facilitates, monitors and assesses systems, networks and communications requirements.[3]
J7 – Joint Exercises, Training and Assessments: Manages the USSTRATCOM commander's Joint Exercises, Training, and Assessments programs in order to ensure readiness to perform the Command missions. Provides modeling and simulation support for exercises and training events to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), Combatant Commands, and other Major Commands (MAJCOM). Manages the Joint Lessons Learned Program. Augments the battle staff during a crisis.[3]
J8 – Capability and Resource Integration: Conducts force management and analysis to include integrating, coordinating, prioritizing, and advocating USSTRATCOM future concepts, mission capability needs, weapons system development, support for emerging technologies, and command and control architecture across the mission areas. Responsible for all command requirement processes, and ensures appropriate decision support tools and assessment processes are in place to enhance operational capabilities.[3]
The Global Operations Center, or GOC, is the nerve center for USSTRATCOM. The GOC is responsible for the global situational awareness of the commander, USSTRATCOM, and is the mechanism by which he exercises operational command and control of the Nation's global strategic forces.[1]
Gen. Curtis E. LeMay Building, U.S. Strategic Command HeadquartersE-6B Mercury, USSTRATCOM ABNCP
The Alternate Processing and Correlation Center in the USSTRATCOM Underground Command Complex at Offutt AFB provides an alternate missile warning correlation center to the Cheyenne Mountain Missile Warning Center. It is the prime source of missile warning data for USSTRATCOM for force survival and force management. The facility consists of the integration of the SCIS, CSSR, and CCPDS-R systems and also upgrade equipment and communications links.[7]
USSTRATCOM Airborne Command Post crew members responding to their aircraft during an alert response exercise
U.S. Strategic Command's Airborne Command Post (ABNCP), also called "Looking Glass", allows USSTRATCOM the ability to command, control, and communicate with its nuclear forces should ground-based command centers become inoperable.[8]
HistoryEdit
USSTRATCOM was originally formed in 1992, as a successor to Strategic Air Command[9] in response to the end of the Cold War and a new vision of nuclear warfare in U.S. defense policy.[10][11] Department of Defense changes in command structure due to the Goldwater–Nichols Act of 1986, led to a single command responsible for all strategic nuclear weapons. As a result, USSTRATCOM's principal mission was to deter military attack, and if deterrence failed, to counter with nuclear weapons.[12]
Throughout its history, it has drawn from important contributions from many different organizations stretching back to World War II. Providing national leadership with a single command responsible for all strategic nuclear forces, General George Butler, in establishing the new command, borrowed from the work of General Curtis LeMay, an early commander of Strategic Air Command. LeMay was a very vocal advocate for a strong national defense, particularly as regards nuclear weapons.[11]
Being a Unified Command, another major concern for Gen. Butler was interservice rivalry, having soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines in one command.[11] There had been decades of rivalry between the branches of the U.S. military regarding control of nuclear weapons. Even though a compromise had established the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff, there were systemic and institutional problems that could not be overcome.
USSTRATCOM was re-structured 1 October 2002 by Secretary of DefenseDonald Rumsfeld.[10] It was now to merge with the United States Space Command and assume all duties for full-spectrum global strike, operational space support, integrated missile defense, and global Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) and specialized planning.[9] Its duties now include intelligence and cyber support as well as monitoring orbiting satellites and space debris.
In February 2008, USSTRATCOM succeeded in destroying a satellite, USA193, about to re-enter the earth's atmosphere.[13]
An intention by the U.S. Air Force to create a 'cyber command' was announced in October 2006.[15] On 21 May 2010, part of USSTRATCOM's responsibility regarding cyber-warfare operations was spun off into a 10th Unified Command, the United States Cyber Command. As a result, USSTRATCOM's Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations (JTF-GNO) and Joint Functional Component Command – Network Warfare (JFCC-NW) were disestablished.
^"U.S. Marine Corps Forces, U.S. Strategic Command". U.S. Marines. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
^"Regal Assets Review - What You MUST Know Before Investing". Archived from the original on 12 December 2021 – via www.youtube.com.
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^ abW. Spencer Johnson (2002). (PDF). www.dtic.mil. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 October 2005. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
^ ab"USSTRATCOM Celebrates 15 Years". www.stratcom.mil. USSTRATCOM Public Affairs. 25 September 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
^ abcRita Clark (LtCol, USAFR); Dr. Vincent Giroux, Jr.; Dr. Todd White (15 August 2013). History of the United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) – Nuclear Weapons, Cold War Strategy, Service Rivalries, Arms Control. Progressive Management. ISBN978-1-30-101083-7.
^"History". US Strategic Command. January 2018. Retrieved 29 July 2018. In addition to the dramatic changes in the global landscape associated with the end of the Cold War, changes in the structure of the DoD stemming from the 1986 "Goldwater-Nichols Act" led national leaders to favor a single command responsible for all strategic nuclear forces. The new command's principal mission was to deter military attack, especially nuclear attack, on the United States and its allies and, if deterrence failed, to employ nuclear forces.
^U.S. Strategic Command Public Affairs (1 February 2010). "USSTRATCOM Comments on Space Debris Article". www.stratcom.mil. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
^"History". US Strategic Command. January 2018. Retrieved 29 July 2018. In 2011, it supported U.S. Africa Command's operations against Libya in a variety of ways, including long-range conventional strikes and ISR.
^John C.K. Daly (9 October 2006). "US Air Force Prepares For Cyber Warfare". Space Daily. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
External linksEdit
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Air Force Magazine, Journal of the Air Force Assoc., August 2008.
FAS: United States Space Command (USSPACECOM)
GAO Report: Additional Actions Needed by U.S. Strategic Command to Strengthen Implementation of Its Many Missions and New Organization
October 20, 2023
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Strategic Command redirects here For other uses see Strategic Command disambiguation The United States Strategic Command USSTRATCOM is one of the eleven unified combatant commands in the United States Department of Defense Headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base Nebraska USSTRATCOM is responsible for strategic nuclear deterrence global strike and operating the Defense Department s Global Information Grid It also provides a host of capabilities to support the other combatant commands including integrated missile defense and global command control communications computers intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance C4ISR This command exists to give national leadership a unified resource for greater understanding of specific threats around the world and the means to respond to those threats rapidly 1 2 United States Strategic CommandOfficial Emblem of United States Strategic Command Active1 June 1992 to presentCountry United States of AmericaTypeFunctional Combatant CommandRoleStrategic deterrence global strike integrated missile defense global C4ISRPart ofDepartment of DefenseHeadquartersOffutt Air Force Base Nebraska U S Nickname s STRATCOM USSTRATCOMMotto s Peace is our Profession Websitewww wbr stratcom wbr milCommandersCommanderGen Anthony J Cotton USAFDeputy CommanderVADM Richard A Correll USNChief of StaffMG Gregory Greg Brady United States ArmyCommand Senior Enlisted LeaderSgtMaj Howard L Kreamer USMCInsigniapre 2002 seal Contents 1 Mission statement 2 Priorities 3 Commander s intent 4 Headquarters organizational structure 5 Organizational structure 5 1 Component Commands 6 Command posts 7 History 8 List of combatant commanders 9 See also 10 References 11 External linksMission statement EditUSSTRATCOM employs nuclear cyber global strike joint electronic warfare missile defense and intelligence capabilities to deter aggression decisively and accurately respond if deterrence fails assure allies shape adversary behavior defeat terror and define the force of the future 3 Priorities EditStrategic Deterrence Decisive Response A Combat Ready Force 3 Commander s intent EditEmbrace strategic deterrence consisting of innovative joint fighting forces integrated and synchronized in multiple domains to ensure national security Ensure a decisive response to aggression against any threat when called upon by civilian national leadership Anticipate and meet tactical theater and strategic demands through operational plans and capability development Develop the next generation of people and capabilities in order to prevail in future conflicts 3 Headquarters organizational structure Edit nbsp A Minuteman III ICBM in its missile silo nbsp USS West Virginia an Ohio class nuclear powered submarine nbsp B 52 and B 2 bombers flying in formationJ1 Human Capital Develops and administers command manpower and personnel policies human resources and personnel assignment programs 3 J2 Intelligence Responsible for delivering all source intelligence while enabling the execution of assigned strategic deterrence space and cyberspace operations Directs all intelligence related support for the commander and ensures unity of intelligence effort across the Command 3 J3 Global Operations Coordinates the planning employment and operation of DoD strategic assets and combines all current operations intelligence and global command and control operations Subdivisions within J3 include Combat and Information Operations Current Operations Logistics and Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations JEMSO 3 J4 Logistics The Logistics Directorate plans coordinates and executes joint logistics functions and provides capability based readiness assessments and facilities management in support of U S Strategic Command s global mission 3 J5 Plans and Policy Responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of national security policy as it applies to the command and the execution of its mission Develops future plans policy and strategy across all mission areas as outlined in the Unified Command Plan 3 J6 C4 Systems Coordinates facilitates monitors and assesses systems networks and communications requirements 3 J7 Joint Exercises Training and Assessments Manages the USSTRATCOM commander s Joint Exercises Training and Assessments programs in order to ensure readiness to perform the Command missions Provides modeling and simulation support for exercises and training events to the Joint Chiefs of Staff JCS Combatant Commands and other Major Commands MAJCOM Manages the Joint Lessons Learned Program Augments the battle staff during a crisis 3 J8 Capability and Resource Integration Conducts force management and analysis to include integrating coordinating prioritizing and advocating USSTRATCOM future concepts mission capability needs weapons system development support for emerging technologies and command and control architecture across the mission areas Responsible for all command requirement processes and ensures appropriate decision support tools and assessment processes are in place to enhance operational capabilities 3 Organizational structure EditComponent Commands Edit Emblem Command Acronym Commander Established Headquarters Subordinate Commands nbsp U S Fleet Forces CommandJoint Force Maritime Component Command 4 USFF Admiral Daryl L Caudle 1 January 1906 Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads Virginia nbsp Submarine Force Atlantic nbsp Air Force Global Strike CommandJoint Force Air Component Command 5 AFGSC General Thomas A Bussiere 15 December 1944 Barksdale Air Force Base Louisiana nbsp Eighth Air Force nbsp Twentieth Air ForceMarine Corps Forces Strategic Command 6 MARFORSTRAT Lt General Matthew G Glavy 1 October 2003 Offutt Air Force Base NebraskaCommand posts EditThe Global Operations Center or GOC is the nerve center for USSTRATCOM The GOC is responsible for the global situational awareness of the commander USSTRATCOM and is the mechanism by which he exercises operational command and control of the Nation s global strategic forces 1 nbsp Gen Curtis E LeMay Building U S Strategic Command Headquarters nbsp E 6B Mercury USSTRATCOM ABNCPThe Alternate Processing and Correlation Center in the USSTRATCOM Underground Command Complex at Offutt AFB provides an alternate missile warning correlation center to the Cheyenne Mountain Missile Warning Center It is the prime source of missile warning data for USSTRATCOM for force survival and force management The facility consists of the integration of the SCIS CSSR and CCPDS R systems and also upgrade equipment and communications links 7 nbsp USSTRATCOM Airborne Command Post crew members responding to their aircraft during an alert response exerciseU S Strategic Command s Airborne Command Post ABNCP also called Looking Glass allows USSTRATCOM the ability to command control and communicate with its nuclear forces should ground based command centers become inoperable 8 History EditUSSTRATCOM was originally formed in 1992 as a successor to Strategic Air Command 9 in response to the end of the Cold War and a new vision of nuclear warfare in U S defense policy 10 11 Department of Defense changes in command structure due to the Goldwater Nichols Act of 1986 led to a single command responsible for all strategic nuclear weapons As a result USSTRATCOM s principal mission was to deter military attack and if deterrence failed to counter with nuclear weapons 12 Throughout its history it has drawn from important contributions from many different organizations stretching back to World War II Providing national leadership with a single command responsible for all strategic nuclear forces General George Butler in establishing the new command borrowed from the work of General Curtis LeMay an early commander of Strategic Air Command LeMay was a very vocal advocate for a strong national defense particularly as regards nuclear weapons 11 Being a Unified Command another major concern for Gen Butler was interservice rivalry having soldiers sailors airmen and marines in one command 11 There had been decades of rivalry between the branches of the U S military regarding control of nuclear weapons Even though a compromise had established the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff there were systemic and institutional problems that could not be overcome USSTRATCOM was re structured 1 October 2002 by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld 10 It was now to merge with the United States Space Command and assume all duties for full spectrum global strike operational space support integrated missile defense and global Command Control Communications Computers Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance C4ISR and specialized planning 9 Its duties now include intelligence and cyber support as well as monitoring orbiting satellites and space debris In February 2008 USSTRATCOM succeeded in destroying a satellite USA193 about to re enter the earth s atmosphere 13 USSTRATCOM also supported United States Africa Command s 2011 military intervention in Libya in a variety of ways including long range conventional strikes and intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance ISR 14 An intention by the U S Air Force to create a cyber command was announced in October 2006 15 On 21 May 2010 part of USSTRATCOM s responsibility regarding cyber warfare operations was spun off into a 10th Unified Command the United States Cyber Command As a result USSTRATCOM s Joint Task Force Global Network Operations JTF GNO and Joint Functional Component Command Network Warfare JFCC NW were disestablished List of combatant commanders EditMain article Leadership of the United States Strategic Command No Commander Term Service branchPortrait Name Took office Left office Term length1 nbsp Butler George L GeneralGeorge L Butler born 1939 1 June 199214 February 19941 year 258 days nbsp U S Air Force2 nbsp Chiles Henry G Jr AdmiralHenry G Chiles Jr born 1938 14 February 199421 February 19962 years 7 days nbsp U S Navy3 nbsp Habiger Eugene E GeneralEugene E Habiger 1939 2022 21 February 19961 August 19982 years 161 days nbsp U S Air Force4 nbsp Mies Richard W AdmiralRichard W Mies born 1944 1 August 199830 November 20013 years 121 days nbsp U S Navy5 nbsp Ellis James O Jr AdmiralJames O Ellis Jr born 1947 30 November 20019 July 20042 years 222 days nbsp U S Navy nbsp Cartwright James E Lieutenant GeneralJames E Cartwright born 1949 Acting9 July 20041 September 200454 days nbsp U S Marine Corps6 nbsp Cartwright James E GeneralJames E Cartwright born 1949 1 September 200410 August 20072 years 343 days nbsp U S Marine Corps nbsp Kehler C Robert Lieutenant GeneralC Robert Kehler born 1952 Acting10 August 20073 October 200754 days nbsp U S Air Force7 nbsp Chilton Kevin P GeneralKevin P Chilton born 1954 3 October 200728 January 20113 years 117 days nbsp U S Air Force8 nbsp Kehler C Robert GeneralC Robert Kehler born 1952 28 January 201115 November 20132 years 291 days nbsp U S Air Force9 nbsp Haney Cecil D AdmiralCecil D Haney born 1955 15 November 20133 November 20162 years 354 days nbsp U S Navy10 nbsp Hyten John E GeneralJohn E Hyten born 1959 3 November 201618 November 20193 years 15 days nbsp U S Air Force11 nbsp Richard Charles A AdmiralCharles A Richard born 1959 18 November 20199 December 20223 years 21 days nbsp U S Navy12 nbsp Cotton Anthony J GeneralAnthony J Cotton9 December 2022Incumbent306 days nbsp U S Air ForceSee also EditNuclear weapons and the United StatesReferences Edit a b About www stratcom mil History www stratcom mil a b c d e f g h i j k Command Snapshot www stratcom mil US Navy Fleet Forces Command AFGSC Units U S Marine Corps Forces U S Strategic Command U S Marines Retrieved 28 December 2022 Regal Assets Review What You MUST Know Before Investing Archived from the original on 12 December 2021 via www youtube com E 6B Airborne Command Post ABNCP stratcom mil a b W Spencer Johnson 2002 New Challenges for the Unified Command Plan PDF www dtic mil Archived from the original PDF on 17 October 2005 Retrieved 30 July 2018 a b USSTRATCOM Celebrates 15 Years www stratcom mil USSTRATCOM Public Affairs 25 September 2017 Retrieved 29 July 2018 a b c Rita Clark LtCol USAFR Dr Vincent Giroux Jr Dr Todd White 15 August 2013 History of the United States Strategic Command USSTRATCOM Nuclear Weapons Cold War Strategy Service Rivalries Arms Control Progressive Management ISBN 978 1 30 101083 7 History US Strategic Command January 2018 Retrieved 29 July 2018 In addition to the dramatic changes in the global landscape associated with the end of the Cold War changes in the structure of the DoD stemming from the 1986 Goldwater Nichols Act led national leaders to favor a single command responsible for all strategic nuclear forces The new command s principal mission was to deter military attack especially nuclear attack on the United States and its allies and if deterrence failed to employ nuclear forces U S Strategic Command Public Affairs 1 February 2010 USSTRATCOM Comments on Space Debris Article www stratcom mil Retrieved 30 July 2018 History US Strategic Command January 2018 Retrieved 29 July 2018 In 2011 it supported U S Africa Command s operations against Libya in a variety of ways including long range conventional strikes and ISR John C K Daly 9 October 2006 US Air Force Prepares For Cyber Warfare Space Daily Retrieved 30 July 2018 External links Edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to United States Strategic Command United States Strategic Command Official Website US Strategic Command Airborne Command Post Fact Sheet Air Force Magazine Journal of the Air Force Assoc August 2008 FAS United States Space Command USSPACECOM GAO Report Additional Actions Needed by U S Strategic Command to Strengthen Implementation of Its Many Missions and New Organization Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title United States Strategic Command amp oldid 1179581069, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
