Army merges three commands in move to prioritize homeland defense

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Source: CNN Politics

PUBLISHED Dec 5, 2025, 4:13 PM ET


The US Army officially stood up a new command on Friday to oversee the Army’s activities in the Western Hemisphere in the latest signal of increasing focus on homeland defense. The new command, called Army Western Hemisphere Command, will combine US Army Forces Command, US Army North, and US Army South into one organization, based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

The combined organization will oversee Army operations like that at the southern border, disaster response, and Army mobilizations in support of federal law enforcement around the country.

“The Army is transforming because our adversaries increasingly aim to exploit vulnerabilities in the homeland and throughout North, Central, and Southern America,” Gen. Joseph Ryan, the commander of the new Western Hemisphere Command, said at a ceremony marking the activation of the command Friday. “We have allowed this insidious activity to continue for too long, and we have not addressed it effectively.”

Army leadership said in May that it would merge the commands in a letter to the force following a directive from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who said the Army “must prioritize defending our homeland and deterring China.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/politics/army-merges-commands-homeland-defense

[mahina]

1. Is that legal?

[AZJonnie]

2. The easiest vulnerability for foreign adversaries to leverage is the dementia-addled pathological narcissist

inhabiting the White House at this time. Especially on a "bang-for-buck" basis. A couple compliments here and there and Donnie Dipshit is eating out of the palms of murderous dictators who hate the USA and laugh at IQ47 behind his pathetically malleable spine.

[Lovie777]

3. Please end this nightmare.............

[Solly Mack]

4. Damn

Trump, Hegseth, and Noem are all threats to national security.

[C Moon]

5. Homeland defense should be focused on the people in the current administration.

[Icanthinkformyself]

6. They misspelled

'coup'.
"The combined organization will oversee Army operations like that at the southern border, disaster response, and Army mobilizations in support of federal law enforcement around the country." No, they will oversee the take over of America and turning it into a Capitalist dystopian nightmare for all but the robber barons, at the behest of conservatives.

[travelingthrulife]

7. Yeah. We have to deter China because you are trying to invade Venezuela.

I knew the military would just roll over for these monsters.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. What happened to the Manly Department of Manly War, Featuring Lethal Warfighters, Grrrr?

"Defense"? I thought that had been rejected as "woke".

It's almost as if the name change was just to give the alcoholic at the top a little stiffy at the thought of his new SSecretary of War (Grrrrr) title.

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Homeland is where the Enemy is.

[Bayard]

10. I don't like seeing, Army, and Homeland, in the same sentence