Opinion | Sébastien Roblin: 'When the Pentagon prizes military readiness above all else, it's unclear why they don't understand the risk to our troops that the coronavirus truly holds.' - NBCNewsTHINK
levels — that is to say, maintaining troops and equipment in a state to deploy for battle on short notice. But trying to continue business as usual in the face of a deadly threat like COVID-19 assuredly will affect readiness down the line. Potential adversaries abroad, also dealing with the pandemic, are far more likely to take notice of a major failure to control the coronavirus within the Pentagon than a downtick in operations.
If the military does become disproportionately afflicted by COVID-19 — or, given rising infection rates in the United States, even proportionally affected — service members and their families could suffer significant losses to illness and potentially become a major vector for the disease. That would not only do a disservice to America’s soldiers, marines, sailors and airmen, but it also would undermine the military’s overarching mission.
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