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This bulletin considers the vital role the US Pacific Command (PACOM) can play in operationalizing the security component of President Obama’s rebalance to Asia which is beleaguered by competing traditional and human security challenges. More specifically, the authors explain that PACOM 1) needs to do a better job of resolving the tension between maintaining a credible deterrent and resolving human security challenges to sustain Indo-Asia-Pacific security; and 2) should advance the transformation of America’s exclusivist ‘hub-and-spokes’ system into an open security architecture capable of resolving the broad scope of regional security objectives through cooperative action.