Mission

USSTRATCOM deters strategic attack through a safe, secure, effective, and credible, global combat capability and, when directed, is ready to prevail in conflict.

Vision

USSTRATCOM is a global warfighting command committed, as part of a global team of allies and partners, to maintaining strategic deterrence across the spectrum of competition and conflict.  USSTRATCOM achieves its mission through a focus on people, readiness, and capabilities.

Priorities

  • Above all else, we will provide Strategic Deterrence
  • If deterrence fails, we are prepared to deliver a Decisive Response
  • We will do this with a resilient, equipped and trained Combat-Ready Force

Commander's Intent

  • People: People are the foundation of our command and ensuring the well-being of the force is how we win.
     
    1. ​USSTRATCOM maintains an inclusive environment where people are valued.  People drive success in our readiness, modernization, and mission priorities.  We must sustain a capable force by fostering a culture that values and leverages the unique talents and backgrounds of our people.  A strong foundation of resilient and combat ready professionals will yield the combat advantage we need to address rising global threats​
       
    2. We must match personnel skills to missions/roles/responsibilities.  Our goal is to build creative problem solvers capable of intelligent risk-taking.  It is essential that USSTRATCOM actively seek the right personnel, both military and civilian, to fill the wide range of roles and responsibilities within the headquarters.
       
    3. In coordination with our civic, military, and academic partners, USSTRATCOM will build the next generation of strategic deterrence subject matter experts through professional development and training.  Developing and retaining personnel with the requisite education, training, and experience is vital to the effectiveness of the command.  We will deliberately develop a large, diverse pool of leaders to ensure the depth and caliber that we will need in the future.
       
  • Readiness: USSTRATCOM is always prepared to execute its wartime mission.
     
    1. USSTRATCOM has a history of demanding training and dedication to readiness.  Our exercise and training programs must accurately reflect the reality that our nation now faces two near-peer nuclear adversaries.  We will continue to build our decision-making processes in our headquarters necessary to win in conflict now and in the future, that are scrupulously assessed and improved through training and evaluation.
       
    2. As a global warfighting command, USSTRATCOM is able to generate effects anywhere in the world when directed.  This requirement demands that our forces are trained, maintained, and prepared at a high level.  Our forces must be able to execute their mission at a moment’s notice.
       
    3. To optimize readiness, we will continue to identify and resolve inefficiencies within the organization.  In order to maintain strategic deterrence, we cannot afford to operate in stove pipes.  We will constantly evaluate and improve how we communicate across the command and how we integrate across domains, joint functions, with our adjacent commands, and with our allies and partners.
       
  • Capabilities: USSTRATCOM aligns resources, capabilities, and posture to generate effects.
     
    1. The recapitalization of our triad is a once in every other generation event that will ensure we have capable forces into the 2080s to defend the homeland and deter strategic attack globally.  We must look beyond individual platforms and take a holistic approach to fielding new systems, while ensuring we continuously account for the warfighter in the field who must employ our new capabilities.  Our approach needs to be forward-leaning so that new systems are seamlessly incorporated into our deterrent force.  Throughout the modernization process, we will maintain a deterrent force that is safe, secure, effective, and credible at all times.
       
    2. We are moving beyond our legacy systems because modernization is essential to the future of our deterrent force.  However, balancing the sustainment of today’s force with future modernization efforts is crucial to maintaining deterrence.  It is critical to have effective systems that can hold adversaries at risk.  As we modernize, it is vital that we maintain our current platforms and preserve our ability to provide deterrence and, if necessary, respond decisively.  Over the next two decades, until new systems come online and are fully integrated into the force, we must be able to “fight tonight” with what is currently fielded.
       
    3. It is vital that USSTRATCOM aligns resources to mission needs.  There are a finite amount of resources available for a sustainment, modernization, recapitalization, and the execution of operations.  We must be deliberate in identifying our requirements and meticulous in our allocation of resources. We must maintain a clear-eyed focus on our requirements and continue to build relationships with key stakeholders.

Who We Are

The bedrock of our command will always be our people.  I am proud to command a group of dedicated professionals – Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, Guardians, and Civilians – prepared for a new era of strategic competition.  We are truly a global warfighting command responsible for the critical capabilities that underpin our Nation’s ability to deter strategic attack, and if necessary, to prevail in conflict.  With our people, capabilities, and Allies, I’m convinced that together there is nothing we cannot accomplish.

 

(Current as of April 2023)