“We have to ensure that a global pandemic or some other health event does not stop us from our ability to project those forces forward, so we can be in the place to fight and win the war and endure through any conflict,” Lt. Col. Dave Kingery, the biological defense integrator for the Army’s headquarters and USANCA, said.

“We have to ensure that a global pandemic or some other health event does not stop us from our ability to project those forces forward, so we can be in the place to fight and win…

A new strategy aims to prepare to “deploy, fight, and win decisively in a bio-contested environment” by 2035.