Pacific Command Changes to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command: “from Bollywood to Hollywood, and from penguins to polar bears,”

Pacific Command Change Highlights Growing Importance of Indian Ocean Area By Jim Garamone   DoD News, JOINT BASE PEAR HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — Defense Secretary James N. Mattis today stressed the importance of the Indian Ocean region of U.S. Pacific Command’s area of responsibility and announced that the Defense Department is renaming the combatant command as U.S. …