The Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (CoCom) is the informal multilateral organization through which the United States and its allies attempt to coordinate the national controls …

Both OPCON and TACON are inherent to COCOM and may be delegated. Two types of CCDRs are geographic combatant commanders (GCCs) and func-tional combatant commanders (FCCs).

COCOM must agree to a proposed export or restriction. The agreed methods of enforcement are expected to be implemented by l ws and/or regulations of the participating countries. Those …

Until its dissolution in March 1994, the Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM) was the primary multinational export control organization through which the United States …

Today, we meet to receive testimony on regional missile defense capabilities. This includes the Patriot system; the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, system; and the Aegis, or Aegis, …

After the Second World War, the first multilateral Export Control Regime (ECR) was created –the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM)–, initially conceived in 1949 by …

CoCom in many ways embodies what is wrong with the alliance, particularly the disunity and distrust which makes a workable compromise elusive. This section will examine a variety of these problems, …