Covid-19 Response: Pentagon Gets A Real $8.3B Slush Fund
Mark Cancian analyzes the Pentagon’s share of a $45.8 billion government-wide funding package to help it cope with the disruptions of sickness and quarantine from the COVID-19 virus.
Series: Combating Covid-19
D360’s Combating Covid-19 series serves as the hub for analysis on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic from the CSIS International Security Program. The series assesses the effect of Covid-19 on the defense sector and the role of the military in containing it with weekly updates and other commentaries from CSIS experts.
Regaining Lost Ground: Defense Support in the Coronavirus Pandemic
Even with its late start, the Defense Department can provide valuable support to whole of nation coronavirus response efforts, write Kathleen Hicks and Joseph Federici.
Use of Military Forces in the Covid-19 Emergency
With COVID-19 sweeping across the United States, CSIS’s Mark Cancian discusses what the U.S. military can, and cannot, do as part of the response.
How Coronavirus Could Hurt U.S. Military Readiness
So far the effects of COVID-19 on the military have been modest, but if current trends continue, the effect on military readiness will be devastating.
