Pentagon Leaders Say Preparing for a Biological Attack is Among Lessons Learned from Pandemic

[rangerrebew]

Pentagon Leaders Say Preparing for a Biological Attack is Among Lessons Learned from Pandemic
Posted on December 2, 2020 by John M. Doyle, Seapower Correspondent   
 
ARLINGTON, Va. — Among the lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic is a better understanding of what it will take to defend against a biological attack or other weapons of mass destruction, leaders of the U.S. Navy and Defense departments said Dec. 2.

“We are today a better force, prepared for nuclear, biological, chemical warfare in the future because of the lessons we’ve learned from this pandemic,” Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite told a Senate hearing on Navy and Marine Corps readiness.

The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, “caught the [Navy] Department off-guard, as it did the entire world,” Braithwaite told Senate Armed Services Committee’s Readiness and Management Support subcommittee, adding, “the Navy in particular struggled through the early weeks of this because the close proximity in which our Sailors live aboard ship made this a real threat to our ability to operate at sea.”

https://seapowermagazine.org/pentagon-leaders-say-preparing-for-a-biological-attack-is-among-lessons-learned-from-pandemic/