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27. In particular, in contrast to the State Department’s regional boundaries, GCC AOR boundaries existbetween Israel and the Arab countries, and between India and Pakistan. Although increasing thecoordination liability between the State Departments and DoD, these boundaries appear to be adeliberate way to build some flexibility into the UCP. If major conflicts were to eventuate in eitherof these two flashpoints, then a relatively minor AOR boundary adjustment could allow the affectedcountries to be incorporated into Central Command’s AOR or into European Command’s or PacificCommand’s AORs, depending on the capacity of each command to manage the conflict at thetime. This rationale was touched on by D. Priest, The Mission: waging war and keeping peace withAmerica’s military, New York: Norton, 2003, p. 73. An alternative rationale is that Israel is morepolitically, militarily and culturally aligned with Europe. See < http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/unifiedcommand/change.html> accessed 10 March 2005.28. In some foreign countries, a US defence representative is appointed who has seniority overthe defence attaché. This is the case in Japan, where Commander US Forces Japan is the DoDrepresentative.29. See for example J. Carafano, ‘Missions, Responsibilities, and Geography: rethinking how thePentagon commands the world’, at accessed 10 March 2010.30. See accessed 10 March 2010.80