In a move that offers more confusion than clarity, the U.S. Department of Defense announced earlier this month that the Indo-Pacific Command would once again be known as the U.S. Pacific Command, or ...

A Pentagon decision to strip “Indo” from the name of its largest unified military command eight years after it was initially added has raised questions about the United States’ continuing commitment ...

In a layered signal to Indo-Pacific nations and America’s domestic audience, the Trump administration last week said the US Indo-Pacific Command would revert to its long-used name, the US Pacific ...

Indian and US troops during Exercise Yudh Abhyas. (Image credit: Indian Army) US President Donald Trump has renamed the US Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) back to the Pacific Command (USPACOM).

The Pentagon said it is changing the name of its Indo-Pacific Command back to the US Pacific Command, unwinding a branding change made during US President Donald Trump’s first term, a move analysts ...

The US administration’s decision to rename its oldest and largest military command from the Indo-Pacific Command to the earlier Pacific Command amid a rebalancing of ties with China has raised ...

The US has restored the Pacific Command name, reversing the 2018 Indo-Pacific designation while keeping its area and mission unchanged. US Indo-Pacific Command renamed back to US Pacific Command ...

The Pentagon is restoring the name of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to the U.S. Pacific Command, it said on Tuesday (June 16, 2026), reversing a 2018 decision. The renaming will not change the command ...

The United States (US) has reversed its eight-year-old decision to restore the name of the US Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) to the US Pacific Command (USPACOM). The US Department of War, in its ...

Eight years after President Donald Trump’s first defense secretary changed U.S. Pacific Command’s name to Indo-Pacific Command, the Pentagon on Tuesday switched it back. “Restoring the legacy USPACOM ...

Another Pentagon-led name change was unveiled Tuesday, when it was announced that the military’s U.S. Indo-Pacific Command would be dropping “Indo” from its name and reverting back to the long used ...