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Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic

The Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT) was one of two supreme commanders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), the other being the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR). The SACLANT led Allied Command Atlantic was based at Norfolk, Virginia. The entire command was routinely referred to as 'SACLANT'.

Allied Command Atlantic

30 January 1952 – 19 June 2003

NATO

Command

Norfolk, Virginia

SACLANT

Cold War

In 1981 SACLANT's wartime task was listed as being to provide for the security of the area by guarding sea lanes to deny their use to an enemy and to safeguard them for the reinforcement and resupply of NATO Europe with personnel and materiel.[1]


The command's area of responsibility extended from the North Pole to the Tropic of Cancer as well as extending from the east coast of North America to the west coast of Africa and Europe, including Portugal but not the English Channel, the British Isles, and the Canary Islands.[2]


Allied Command Atlantic was redesignated as Allied Command Transformation (ACT) on 19 June 2003. ACT was to be headed by the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT), up to 2009 an American four-star admiral or general who was dual-hatted as commander, United States Joint Forces Command (COMUSJFCOM). SACLANT's former military missions were folded into NATO's Allied Command Operations (ACO).[3]

Supreme Allied Commander (SACLANT) – SACLANT was responsible for all Alliance military missions within the ACLANT . SACLANT was a United States admiral who also serves as the Commander-in-Chief U.S. Atlantic Command, one of the Department of Defense unified combatant commands. After the end of the Cold War, Army generals began to be assigned to the position.

area of responsibility

Deputy Supreme Allied Commander (DSACLANT) – The principal deputy to SACLANT held by a vice-admiral. DSACLANT was originally the commander of the Royal Navy's North America and West Indies Station.

British

Chief of Staff (COFS) – Directs the SACLANT headquarters staff

SACLANT ASW Research Centre

Joint Force Command Norfolk

Air Force Association (May 2006). (PDF). Air Force Magazine. 89 (5). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 10, 2007.

"USAF Almanac 2006"

North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (PDF).

"Senior officials in the NATO military structure, from 1949 to 2001"

Atlantic Council of the United States (August 2003). (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-10-03.

"Transforming the NATO Military Command Structure: A New Framework for Managing the Alliance's Future"

Maloney, Sean M. Securing Command of the Sea: NATO Naval Planning, 1948–1954. Naval Institute Press, 1995. 276 pp.

Jane's NATO Handbook Edited by Bruce George, 1990, Jane's Information Group  0-7106-0598-6

ISBN

Jane's NATO Handbook Edited by Bruce George, 1991, Jane's Information Group  0-7106-0976-0

ISBN

NATO Handbook

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