In its absence, military responsibilities for Africa remain split between CENTCOM, EUCOM, and PACOM.
CENTCOM, which had always been headed by a ground commander, one of his military colleagues told me.
And we have launched an investigation through CENTCOM, as well as ISAF, to find out exactly what transpired.
At CentCom we were faced with the problem of deciphering all this information.
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"CentCom's tasks are of enormous importance to our country, to the CentCom region and to the world, " Petraeus said.
When he becomes chief of CENTCOM, the U.S. military's Central Command, Gen.
There were two press operations going on at CentCom headquarters in Doha.
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That is precisely the situation General Petraeus faced when he served in Iraq under then-Centcom Commander William Fallon, until Admiral Fallon was pushed out.
It is not entirely known which sector contains the largest concentration of contractors, because many analysts are skeptical of the accuracy of CENTCOM's numbers.
Access to what has been dubbed coalition village - at the Florida headquarters of the US Central Command, or CentCom - is highly restricted.
The Admiral's assignment to Centcom commander came as a shock to those who had observed what some called his "toxic leadership" in the Pacific Command.
In a statement, Rumsfeld said Franks would step down as Centcom commander in the next few weeks, and end his military career for good later this summer.
CNN: Franks turned down the Army's top job earlier this month.
CENTCOM Central Command the General will oversee all U.S. military forces between Pakistan and Egypt and attempt to apply lessons from his Iraq campaign to the intensifying war in Afghanistan.
According to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), which is running the Iraq war, approximately 100, 000 contractors and subcontractors--including Iraqis, Americans and other foreigners--are currently assisting U.S. forces in Iraq.
CENTCOM, the Iranians were funding every entity inside Iraq.
As part of our post-war planning, CENTCOM has also established a Combined Joint Task Force that will be responsible for U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq in the immediate aftermath of a conflict.
He is responsible for organizing and integrating the work of the three substantive operations and ensuring that the office can travel to the region when necessary and plug in smoothly to CENTCOM's operations.
The leaked memo reportedly reflects the views of a significant number of senior and mid-level officers in Centcom, including large numbers of intelligence officers, as well as a significant number of area analysts stationed in the Middle East.
But the political cover provided by General Petraeus, or at least by his CENTCOM staff, will surely come in handy for Team Obama when the chickens of the war that such policies will inevitably encourage come home to roost.
Not only is General Petraeus now the head of CENTCOM conducting his own review, he's now working in concert with the special envoy that I've sent over, Richard Holbrooke, one of our top diplomats, to evaluate a regional approach.
The Centcom memo also condemns Israel's July 2006 decision to respond to Hizbullah's unprovoked bombardment of northern Israel and its unprovoked cross-border attack against an IDF patrol in which five soldiers were killed and two were kidnapped and subsequently murdered.
The new CENTCOM analysis, conducted by dozens of experts from across the government, is focusing, in particular, on the likely hot spots for the next administration, including Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, according to two U.S. military officials familiar with the review.
For an complex multi-national mission like the Libyan operation the obvious candidates would be Nato - which, for example, commanded the operation to eject Serbian forces from Bosnia - or an established US headquarters like Centcom - which ran the invasion of Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein.
With Gen Petraeus taking over at Centcom, some Nato partners wobbling about keeping troops in Afghanistan and the US presidential election like to produce a new focus on the conflict there, one thing we can expect is for a clearer command structure to be established in 2009 with the Americans more obviously in charge.
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