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The Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance is a Department of Defense organization dedicated to international disaster preparedness and management capacity building for the purpose of decreasing the impact of human suffering. Established by Congress in 1994 as a direct reporting unit to the United States Pacific Command (USPACOM), the Center now supports United States Combatant Commands throughout the world

The following collection of articles focus on U.S. joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational (JIIM) activities, challenges, issues, and operations in the six U.S. geographic combatant commands (GCCs

"The CKC is a joint and interagency effort of the US Government and Department of Defense. It was created to primarily serve the socio-cultural requirements of the combatant commands. It also seeks to enhance collaboration among the larger socio-cultural research community The idea of collaborating in an open way is to support civilian and military planning and decision-making processes with the very best information and the most diverse views"

Carl-Gustaf M4 (CGM4) is a man-portable, shoulder-launched weapon system designed and developed by Swedish defence and security firm Saab to meet a wide range of modern combat needs of infantry forces.