Goodbye Indo-Pacific, hello first island chain!
Responsible Statecraft
On June 16, the Pentagon announced that U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) would revert to its 1947 name, U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM). U.S. officials called it a restoration of "deep historical roots" and insisted that the command's area of responsibility, stretching from the U.S. West Coast to India's western maritime boundary, would remain "exactly the same." Given that PACOM was the command’s name during the Cold War contestations with China and the Soviet Union, the reversion to the older name seems to be just another of those Trump 2.0 nostalgias: a feel-good invocation of America
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