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The US has renamed the Indo-Pacific Command back to the Pacific Command. The move restores the command's historic identity while keeping its mission and area of responsibility unchanged.
The US Department of War said the restoration of the original name is intended to honour the command’s historical identity and institutional legacy.
New Delhi,UPDATED: Jun 17, 2026 10:13 IST
The United States Department of War has announced that the US Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) will officially revert to its original designation — the US Pacific Command (USPACOM), restoring the name under which the military command operated for more than seven decades.
The move reverses a symbolic but strategically significant change introduced in 2018, when then US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis redesignated the command as the US Indo-Pacific Command to reflect what Washington described at the time as the growing strategic importance of the Indian Ocean region and its increasing integration with Pacific security dynamics.
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Jun 17, 2026 10:12 IST
