'All necessary measures'?While every military base is alert to the threat of COVID-19, only a tiny portion of the force is actually being utilized.
Whose war is it? Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 at Fort Drum, New York, on August 13, 2018.The first of about 500 soldiers of the 1st Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division, as well as soldiers in the division's 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, started arriving Monday at Ft. Drum in upstate New York, making the long journey home from their duty in Afghanistan.
But North Korea's launch of missiles this past week and Iranian meddling in Iraq have lost some of their normal urgency. And the minds of soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen and women are decidedly focused on home. But in the past three weeks, that"fight" has expanded against an"invisible enemy." Enemy might sound hyperbolic, and certainly some of the language and the jargon of the military is grating to the civilian ear. But against this enemy—this declared enemy—the path to victory is also uncertain.
This is not to suggest that the military could be doing more. Part of winning is also preserving order and discipline and even its good name before throwing troops into another war. And so another message of the past week, one that is ubiquitous in every commander's and soldier's mouth, is that the military is not in command of this war.
Gen. Hyten makes such a statement not only because he needs to communicate with and motivate a force whose mind is elsewhere, but also to communicate to America's adversaries that coronavirus hasn't impaired any ability to act or respond. That also means sequestering and keeping the force healthy, not because the military is standing by to take over America but because its wartime mission might require it to rapidly mobilize.
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