Functional Combatant Commanders:

United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)

Responsible for command of U.S. nuclear capabilities, space operations, global surveillance and reconnaissance, intelligence, communications, computers, global missile defense and combatting weapons of mass destruction.

United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM)

Responsible for planning, coordinating, integrating, synchronizing and conduct of activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries.

United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)

Responsible for planning for and conducting special operations. It offers direct action in the form of short duration strikes and small-scale offensives, special reconnaissance, unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, civil affairs operations, counterterrorism, psychological operations, information operations, counter-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, security force assistance, counterinsurgency operations and any specific activities directed by the President or the Secretary of War

United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM

Globally projects and sustains the Joint Force by providing unified, globally integrated mobility operations, leading the Joint Deployment and Distribution Enterprise, and delivering critical enabling services like transportation, global patient movement, and fuel, ensuring military power can be projected and sustained anywhere via Air Mobility Command, Military Sealift Command, and Surface Deployment and Distribution Command.