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Remembering 9/11, 20 Years Later

Perspectives and insights from USAWC SSI faculty reviewing the events prior to and following September 11, 2001.

 

 

Special Commentary: COVID-19

SSI research professors and faculty consider the COVID-19 pandemic and its long-term, strategic implications for the US Army and national security.  Each essay provides an independent, specialized view on a particular aspect of the challenges posed by COVID-19 and includes recommendations on how the Army and DoD should address those issues.

  • Long-Term Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for the US Army by Dr. Steven Metz
    Long-Term Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for the US Army

    By Dr. Steven Metz

    As the COVID-19 pandemic rages across the United States, the Army is simultaneously providing extensive support to civil authorities and maintaining readiness to perform its deterrence and warfighting missions. Eventually the current crisis will subside but the United States and its Army will not simply return to the way things were before. The pandemic has unleashed great change within the United States and the global security environment, accelerating forces that will, in combination, be revolutionary.

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  • COVID-19 and the Ethics of Military Readiness by Dr. C. Anthony Pfaff
    COVID-19 and the Ethics of Military Readiness

    By Dr. C. Anthony Pfaff

    As is well known, then acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly fired Captain Brett Crozier, captain of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, after he wrote a letter arguing that all but ten percent of the crew should disembark the ship to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Doing so, he acknowledged, would diminish the carrier’s readiness and slow its response time in a crisis. Justifying that decision, however, he argued, “We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die. If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset — our Sailors."

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