STUTTGART, Germany — The newly forming Africa Command on June 1 launched a Web site to disseminate information about its role as the U.S. military’s newest combatant command.

The site — with the address www.eucom.mil/africom — spells out themes that the command is trying to convey, such as its goal to include diplomatic and charity-based personnel and to aid the African continent in areas such as economic development.

The site also answers 19 frequently asked questions such as, for example, “Is this an effort by the United States to gain access to natural resources (e.g. petroleum)? Is this in response to Chinese activities in Africa?” (Answer: “No,” then an explanation.)

The command, which was announced in February, would coordinate and oversee U.S. military activity on the African continent, except in Egypt. Three combatant commands — European, Central and Pacific — now share military coordination on the giant continent.

Africa Command, or AFRICOM, is scheduled to be partially operational by October. It will remain a subordinate of the U.S. European Command until it besomes fully operational, which is scheduled for October 2008.

The European Command and African Command Transition Team are both headquartered in Stuttgart.

Army Maj. Steven J. Wollman, an AFRICOM spokesman, said there have been some misconceptions about the command that he hoped the Web site would clear up.

“Basing is an issue,” Wollman said. “It’s not going to be a presence like when you think about troops in Europe. There won’t be a [Kaiserslautern]-type concentration or like at Ramstein,” referring to German cities with large U.S. military bases.

“There wouldn’t be even what we call operational units (such as companies or battalions).”