CSIS experts Sam Brannen and Rebecca Hersman explain how their prescient simulation of an infectious disease outbreak involving a type of coronavirus predicted a scenario chillingly similar to today’s COVID-19 pandemic.
The damage happening today in the aviation sector is highly likely to spill over into the defense industrial base through defense supply chains. Recognizing and addressing this reality is essential to avoid profound long-term damage to national security.
Kathleen Hicks joins Loren, Radha, and Erin for an all-COVID-19 episode, starting with potential contributions by DoD to addressing this crisis. They explore different angles of the global pandemic, including how it’s impacting other ongoing international events, the economy, and domestic politics.
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.
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.
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.
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.
