New Delhi, June 17 -- Roughly eight years after US President Donald Trump's administration changed the name of its Pacific Command to the Indo-Pacific Command, the US has reverted to the original name. The Department of War on Tuesday (local time) announced in a press release that the US Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) will officially restore its name to the US Pacific Command (USPACOM).

The move has already drawn political reactions in India, with Congress MP Shashi Tharoor taking a dig at the decision.

Originally established on 1 January, 1947 by former US President Harry Truman, the command has operated under the USPACOM banner for over seven decades, standing as the oldest and largest of the US's unified combatant commands.

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