Joint Command of the Armed Forces of Peru
The Joint Command of the Armed Forces of Peru (Spanish: Comando Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas del Perú (COCOFA)) is the executive agency of the Ministry of Defence of Peru in charge of the Armed Forces. The current head of the Joint Command is Admiral Jorge Montoya Manrique.
History
In the 1950s, the military institutions studied the experiences of the operational use of the forces during World War II and gave evidence of necessity that the Armed Forces must include a permanent joint organization, in which there would exist a commando unit to be used in the planning of operations, whose execution and use in any armed conflict would require a permanent coordination of the:
The project of the creation of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, which finally was approved by Supreme Decree Nº 002-GM/1 on February 1, 1957. Major General EP Manuel Cossío Cossío was designated the first president of the CCFFAA. It is stated in articles of the Supreme Decree that “the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, depends directly on the President of the Republic, who has the highest authority in the planning and coordination of the operations of the Forces of the Army, Navy and Air Force”.
Mission
It is the agency in charge of the planning, preparation, coordination, direction and joint military direction of combat operations of the Military institutions and the fulfillment of the objectives of the Policy of National defense, assuring its maximum effectiveness in coordination with assigned logistic and budgetary resources, and in observance of the principles of interoperativity, efficiency and to operate jointly.