PACOM: US brings allies’ war-fighting under its operational control

Written by: Nick G. on 13 November 2026

Interoperability and interchangeablity of US armed forces with those of its subject “allies” has been spoken of many times. The AUKUS debate has seen how the loss of Australian sovereignty to its US masters is a major cause of concern for many of us. 

A new step in this direction is the concept of “common operational procedure” (COP). This is achieved when the US and its lackeys “communicated, collaborated, planned, and executed with common tools, common data flows and language translation” according to Lt. Gen. George Rowell, Pacific Command’s deputy commander.

He revealed that during 2026 PACOM conducted 17 exercises in COP across nine host nations and incorporating 35 countries. 

They included the remilitarising Japan which for the first time used the Maven Smart System, an artificial intelligence-enabled platform used for planning and targeting, which is embedded into the mission network. “Using Maven, Japanese are contributing to joint strikes and close kill chains, Lt. Gen. George Rowell, said. 

Maven helps embed COP

Project Maven was first established by the US military in 2017. Google was an initial partner, but the company pulled out after over 3,000 Google employees signed a letter opposing the work. Peter Thiel’s big data firm Palantir then took over the project and has run it ever since.

Maven integrates data from drones, satellites, and other sensors to flag potential targets, present findings to human analysts, and relay their decisions to operational systems.

More than 120 Iranian schoolgirls found that it was not foolproof when it directed two US missiles on their school, killing all of them, on February 28 during a 96-hour barrage of over 2,000 munitions sent by Maven to 2,000 distinct targets when US imperialism and Israeli Zionism attacked Iran. 

As of January 2026, Maven was running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and incorporated a version of Claude, a series of AI systems developed by Anthropic. The use of Maven and Claude to support the illegal seizure and kidnapping of Venezuela’s then President Nicolás Maduro prompted Anthropic to withdraw from Maven.

“This was really the first year that all of our capabilities are in a multilateral environment where our partners are using those warfighting applications and tools with the US and we have a single COP to conduct warfighting,” Brig. Gen. Michael Smith, director for command, control, communications, computers and cyber at Indo-Pacific Command said in October.

The US military will control the “single COP to conduct warfighting” and will therefore have command and control over each of its participating “allies”.
It is, in effect, saying to those stupid enough to join it in its unwinnable wars, “You will use equipment approved by us to prevent any independent decision-making and fight only according to operational procedures that we control.”

This is further evidence of the surrender of our sovereignty to the US, and of the need to break its hold on our country.

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