Ultimately, Dempsey and the Pentagon planners devised a brilliant operation that the Chairman presented to the President—“a logistics mission with a medical component,” he stressed, “not the other way around.” President Obama then announced that he was sending some 3,000 troops to Liberia and ramping up each component of the US response. Drawing on the expertise of hundreds of USAID and CDC staff deployed to West Africa, the United States would facilitate the training of tens of thousands of local health workers to care for Ebola patients. We would create an air bridge to fly doctors, nurses,
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