United States Special Operations Command [USSOCOM] Law and Legal Definition
United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is the U.S. Unified Combatant Command that oversees various Special Operations Commands of the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps of the U.S. Armed Forces.
The USSOCOM's mission is to provide fully capable Special Operations Forces (SOF) to defend the U.S. and its interests and prepare plan against terrorist attacks.
The USSOCOM is part of the Department of Defense. It conducts several covert and clandestine missions, such as unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance, psychological operations, Civil Affairs, direct action, counter-terrorism and War on Drugs operations.
Legal Definition list
- United States Special Operations Command [USSOCOM]
- United States Southern Command [USSOUTHCOM]
- United States Sentencing Commission
- United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
- United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
- United States Tax
- United States Trade and Development Agency
- United States Trade Representative
- United States Trust Indenture Act of 1939
- United States Trustee
- United States Vessel
Related Legal Terms
- Accompanying the Armed Forces outside the United States
- Accompanying the Federal Government Outside the United States
- Administration of Estates
- Administrative Conference of the United States
- Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AO)
- Adult With a Special Need
- Aerospace Control Operations
- Agency of the United States
- Aircraft Commander
- Aircraft Operations [Aeronautics and Space]
