Subordinate Unified Commands
A Subordinate Unified Command, or Subunified Command, may be established by combatant commanders when authorized to do so by the Secretary of Defense or the President. They are created to conduct a portion of their parent Unified Command. Like Unified Commands, Subunified Commands may be either functional or geographic, and the commanders of Subunified Commands exercise authority similar to that of combatant commanders.
Examples of current and former Subunified Commands are the Alaskan Command (ALCOM) and the United States Forces Korea (USFK) under USPACOM, the United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) under USSTRATCOM, and the former United States Forces – Iraq (USF-I) under USCENTCOM.
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