Defense officials today announced the president's approval of a new Unified Command Plan that gives U.S. Strategic Command the lead in military cyberspace activities and puts U.S. Northern Command in charge of planning the Defense Department's response to a widespread influenza outbreak. The new UCP also includes, for the first time, mention of U.S. Africa Command as one of the Pentagon's geographic combatant commands. The document, marked "for official use only" and obtained by InsideDefense.com , was supposed to become...
