Pentagon Joint Chiefs vice chairman Gen. John Hyten believes that the pre-coronavirus
"We have to figure out how to operate and fight through a world where coronavirus exists. If we just wait for what, you know, everybody hopes is gonna happen, which is"2019 normal will never exist again" for the military, and that means the US's fighting forces will have to prepare to fight in a coronavirus world. the disease goes away, and it doesn't, and we haven't planned for the - for the other case, we're in a bad situation," Hyten said, speaking to CBS News.The senior officer admitted that despite twice daily briefings of the Pentagon's crisis management team, the military "still don't fully understand the virus...We had so many assumptions of what a virus would do, what a pandemic flu would do. And then when you actually see what coronavirus does, what COVID-19 does, it's completely different," he complained.
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