The diverse branches of the US military have been tasked to do joint operations

history channel documentary hd Military coordination: the diverse branches of the US military have been tasked to do joint operations under a solitary field-administrator by the 1986 Goldwater-Nicols Defense Reorganization Act. So planes of the aviation based armed forces, boats of the naval force, mounted guns firearms of the armed force, and faculty from each of the three administrations, will be set under a solitary leader in a specific locale. The joint base camp of that officer will arrange and execute operations including every one of these advantages and work force. In this manner in the Tsunami fiasco of 2004-05 the Pacific Command (PACOM), then under the Navy's Admiral Thomas Fargo, arranged Op Unified Assistance- - the military resources and faculty drawn from the US terrain and from autonomous charges in S Korea and Japan went under the control of PACOM. The real direct of the operation was tasked to the joint central command (CSF-536) set up at Utapao- - the benefits and work force conveyed went under the CSF-536 Commander, the Marine Corps' Lt. General Rusty Blackman. A joint home office for the three military of India was proposed by a Group of Ministers under the NDA government in 2001- - because of resistance inside the administrations operational control of military resources was not gave over to this Integrated Defense Staff (IDS) Headquarters. India's five post-Tsunami help operations were arranged and facilitated by the IDS, which was then under the charge of the Navy's Vice-Admiral Raman Puri- - not at all like in the US, operational control of military resources stayed with the individual administration. In Operation Sea Waves real lead of operations and conveyance of help inside the Andaman and Nicobar Islands was tasked to the ANC, then under the Army's Lt. General BS Thakur.

Under the New Framework for the US-India Defense Relationship, the two nations will build military coordination and hold joint activities to react successfully to future calamities. The lead in such manner was taken by the US Pacific Command (PACOM) and India's Integrated Defense Staff (IDS). Also the US has requested the posting of an Indian contact officer at PACOM Headquarters. With respect to oceanic security India is as of now a part of the US-drove PSI (Proliferation Security Initiative) and CSI (Container Security Initiative), aside from its own particular Operations Tasha and Swan.