Sunday, May 17, 2020

Pentagon Readys For A Long Battle With COVID-19

Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark T. Esper holds a conference with industry leaders from the Pentagon Briefing Room May 15, 2020. (Jack Sanders/U.S. Air Force)

The Hill: Pentagon girds for long battle with COVID-19

The Pentagon is hunkering down to live with the coronavirus for the foreseeable future.

The Defense Department must accomplish a delicate balancing act: continuing essential missions such as the fight against ISIS, while keeping forces healthy enough that those missions aren’t adversely affected anyway.

With defense officials acknowledging the coronavirus will be an obstacle at least until a vaccine is developed, the U.S. military is preparing for a “new abnormal” environment where it can resume some activities that were slowed by the virus without risking the health of U.S. troops.

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Update: SecDef Keeps Military Stop-Movement Order in Place After Review (Military.com)

WNU Editor: I agree. Covid-19 is going to be with us for a long time.

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