military departments
Geographic and Functional.
Combatant commands is about survival. National objectives means nothing without survival.
Functional Combatant Commands
U.S. European Command
Secretary of defense and the president
STRATCOM
Functional combatant commands are military organizations that focus on specific functional areas, such as transportation or cyber operations, rather than geographic regions. They are responsible for providing command and control of specific military capabilities and resources to support global operations as directed by the unified combatant commands. Examples include U.S. Strategic Command and U.S. Special Operations Command.
Who is responsible for organizing training and equipping forces for assignment to unified combatant command
SOCOM
EUCOM, SOCOM and CENTCOM
U.S. European Command (Germany) and U.S. Africa Command (Germany)