These arguments would also be applied to COCOM throughout the Cold War. COCOM endured, allied griping notwithstanding, until 1993, when it was transformed into the Wassenaar Arrangement.

Also known as a unified combatant command, or COCOM, these commands are the highest possible echelon of military command and are overseen by what’s called the Unified Command Plan, or UCP. The ...

COCOMS GROW: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that staff at joint combatant commands (cocoms) like U.S. Central Command increased by about 50% from fiscal 2001 through ...

A multilateral partnership and a product of the Cold War, COCOM has long been superseded by the successor body, the Wassenaar Arrangement, supposedly to be a non-ideological alternative endeavoring to ...