{"id":51126,"date":"2024-08-19T17:24:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T17:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/08\/19\/combatant-commands-must-think-globally-outgoing-army-north-chief-says\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:21:00","slug":"combatant-commands-must-think-globally-outgoing-army-north-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2024\/08\/19\/combatant-commands-must-think-globally-outgoing-army-north-chief-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Combatant commands must think globally, outgoing Army North chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arnorth.army.mil\/About\/History\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Army North<\/a> is one of the commands essential to protecting U.S. citizens but is often one of the last mentioned publicly when soldiers and citizens think of the Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The command oversees all U.S. Army activity in the United States and works alongside Canada\u2019s and Mexico\u2019s military forces on U.S. Army activity in those countries. When called, it supports civil authorities such as the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outgoing commander of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2021\/10\/12\/afghan-evacuees-covid-and-wildfires-keep-us-army-north-busy\/\" target=\"_blank\">ARNORTH<\/a>, Lt. Gen. John Evans, assumed<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2024\/08\/14\/army-stands-up-arctic-aviation-command\/\" target=\"_blank\"> command<\/a> leadership at a pivotal time in September 2021. He relinquished command Aug. 13, 2024, and retired after 36 years in the Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Evans arrived at the post having previously led U.S. Army Cadet Command from 2018 to 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2022\/03\/29\/this-army-unit-is-doing-everything-from-fighting-fires-to-resettling-refugees\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6828351.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">This Army unit is doing everything from fighting fires to resettling refugees<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">A variety of missions hit ARNORTH every year. Their newest puzzle &#8211; protecting troops in transit.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the moment he took command of ARNORTH, Evans faced a flood of missions from ongoing COVID-19 response efforts to accommodating 76,000 Afghan evacuees who fled the country after the U.S. military\u2019s withdrawal in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, the command has also had to modernize along with the rest of the Army, shifting its training, equipment and formations toward a great power competition fight with potential adversaries such as China or Russia and away from smaller footprint counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations of the past few decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Evans spoke with Army Times before his retirement, reflecting on the command\u2019s past and future. The Q&amp;A has been edited for length and clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4008\" height=\"2672\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/LTG-Evans-2021-Pickett.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/LTG-Evans-2021-Pickett.jpg.jpg 4008w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/LTG-Evans-2021-Pickett.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/LTG-Evans-2021-Pickett.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/LTG-Evans-2021-Pickett.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/LTG-Evans-2021-Pickett.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/LTG-Evans-2021-Pickett.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4008px) 100vw, 4008px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">As commander of U.S. Army North, Lt. Gen. John Evans, left, oversaw a range of missions from COVID-19 response efforts to accommodating Afghan evacuees following the U.S. military&#8217;s withdrawal. (Lance Cpl. Zachary Zephir\/Marine Corps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Army Times: While ARNORTH plays a significant role, many career soldiers may not have had much experience with the command. What was your experience when you took command?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Evans:<b> <\/b>As a special operations guy most of my career I didn\u2019t do much in the homeland. So, I didn\u2019t know a whole lot about how we were approaching homeland defense. I also didn\u2019t know and had not really touched defense support and the civil authorities in any meaningful way. Coming into command in 2021 we were right at the backend of COVID, kind of going into phase two of COVID response. Our team was weary when I got here. There had been incredible work to support all our civil authorities. And right then we started seeing the withdrawal from Afghanistan and knowing we were going to have people we needed to get out of Afghanistan. That was one of the largest single-event immigration events in the history of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>What\u2019s different about working in the homeland (the United States) as compared to other combatant commands?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For so many soldiers who are used to being in a forward deployed theater, particularly considering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the military is always the lead organization, so they\u2019re used to having a certain autonomy in decision-making. But the military is never the lead organization in the homeland for response. It\u2019s a complete reversal when you\u2019re in the homeland. So that takes some depth management. It takes some understanding of how you\u2019re building that organizational dynamic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/retirement.jpg_8f3593.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/retirement.jpg_8f3593.jpg 6000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/retirement.jpg_8f3593.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/retirement.jpg_8f3593.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/retirement.jpg_8f3593.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/retirement.jpg_8f3593.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/retirement.jpg_8f3593.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 6000px) 100vw, 6000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Army Lt. Gen. John Evans, former commander of Army North, stands with his family at his retirement ceremony on Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Aug. 13, 2024. (Sgt. Andrea Kent\/Army)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>The idea of an attack on the homeland has changed in recent years, especially with the advance of interconnected technologies. What\u2019s ARNORTH able to prepare for?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t think we\u2019re ever going to see a \u201cRed Dawn\u201d situation where we\u2019ve got enemy paratroopers jumping into the wheat fields of Kansas or whatever the setting was for the movie. But I do think it\u2019s very reasonable and feasible to think that we might see cyberattacks, space domain-based attacks, things that will get into our decision cycle that would stop us from being able to deploy rapidly. We count on our ability to deploy rapidly, and it\u2019s unique to the United States; nobody else has it. So, we must look at where are our vulnerabilities and what can we do to better prepare ourselves now so that if we face conflict, we can assure our projection for the forward commanders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>What lies ahead for combatant commanders as the United States refocuses its efforts on peer adversaries and a wide range of potential threats?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ve got to keep doing what we\u2019re doing with modernization. But we really have looked at the world kind of regionally. We look at Asia, we look at Europe, we look at Africa, we look at South America and we look at North America. But the bottom line is we are globally interconnected. What happens in one command affects what happens in the homeland. What happens in the Indo-Pacific Command can affect what happens in Central Command. I think as we move forward, we\u2019ve got to be careful because law and policy are set up to support the regional construct. 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