One lesson from the Coronavirus is that "no plan survives contact with the enemy."
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Two months later the New York Times was describing how the Maginot Line fell.
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"The reality was that France was nearly defenseless.
The government’s flip-flopping policies on past pandemics ...left a once formidable national stockpile of face masks nearly depleted ... outsourced the manufacturing capacity to replenish that stockpile to suppliers overseas"
The government’s flip-flopping policies on past pandemics ...left a once formidable national stockpile of face masks nearly depleted ... outsourced the manufacturing capacity to replenish that stockpile to suppliers overseas"
Not just France but Britain's NHS, the US CDC and FDA and the modelers found themselves outflanked.
Churchill first asked in English, “Where is the strategic reserve?” and then in his appallingly bad French, “Où est la masse de manoeuvre?” Gamelin’s one-word reply, “Aucune!” (none), was an admission of strategic and operational bankruptcy.
