Updated Unified Command Plan (UCP) 2008

DOD has released the updated Unified Command Plan (UCP). As they note – this is a “key strategic document that establishes the missions, responsibilities, and geographic areas of responsibility for commanders of combatant commands. http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12408

The document itself is classified

According to their press release http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=52450 , major changes to the plan include:
-- Codifying Africom, which became fully operational-capable Oct. 1, as a geographic combatant command by assigning specific missions, responsibilities and geographic boundaries;

-- Shifting the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands from U.S. Southern Command's to U.S. Northern Command's area of responsibility;

-- Assigning every combatant commander responsibility for planning and conducting military support for stability, security, transition, reconstruction operations, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief;

-- Assigning central planning authorities for several global missions, including pandemic influenza response, cyberspace operations, global operations against terrorist networks, combating weapons of mass destruction and global missile defense; and

-- Codify U.S. Pacific Command's responsibility for homeland defense operations in Hawaii, Guam and other U.S. territories within its area of responsibility. The plan codifies a new "pandemic influenza" mission and tasks Northcom to plan departmentwide efforts in support of the U.S. government response to an outbreak. U.S. Strategic Command is assigned responsibility for the department's cyberspace mission, Whitman said.

A map of the combatant commanders’ Areas of Responsibility (AOR) is available at http://www.defenselink.mil/news/map12-08.pdf