The Pentagon's Joint Staff has launched a planning group focused on the U.S. military's long-term plans for operating during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, taking into account the likelihood the Pentagon's budget may be cut and troops may come home.
The group will look at possible vulnerabilities the U.S. may face during the pandemic and where adversaries could try to take advantage of the U.S. focus on COVID-19. At the same time, the group will determine what strategic advantages the U.S. can leverage as adversaries are also focused on the outbreak.
The officials said the review will also look at how the military needs to focus more domestically during the pandemic and how that may include decreases in U.S. military footprints in other parts of the world. "Some priorities will shift," a defense official said, including in the budget. The military budget request is more than $700 billion, and the Pentagon knows it will likely need to find more efficiencies going forward."We will need more bang for our buck in this new normal," an official said, adding that the military is preparing for the possibility that it will not get as big a budget next year.
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