The Military Response to Pandemic: The New Global Threat

• Main Author: Tornabene, Pietro
• Other Authors: ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Personnel Management and Labor Relations; Medicine and Medical Research; *MILITARY PERSONNEL; *PLAGUES; *INFECTIOUS DISEASES; ARMY TRAINING; SARS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUSES; INFLUENZA; EBOLA VIRUS; THREATS; SOCIETIES; GLOBAL; ECOSYSTEMS; MICROBES; MENACE; PREPAREDNESS; AVIAN FLU; Bulwark; Avian flu
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA494293; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA494293

The more we develop, the more people gather in enormous urban conglomerates, the more we become intertwined in a complex society characterized by large availability of means of transportation, and the more the disruptive effects of a global plague stemming from an unknown infection will be. It is necessary to address this new type of menace in order to know the enemy we face, and once known, find feasible, acceptable, and suitable course of actions to defeat it or, at least, minimize the undesirable effects to our complex society. To fight this kind of war is not only the duty of a few researchers or doctors. The Army, as the ultimate bulwark between order and chaos when a threat becomes disruptive for the entire society, has a big role to play in order to assure order, deliver goods and medicines, control the stream of infected people, and maintain open vital communication`s routes. The threat of pandemic does not find place in the The Spectrum of Conflict, and requires new tasks to be accomplished by the Armed Forces. This paper has been developed to address this kind of problem. Cover page, Report Document Page (SF 298), and USRP page replaced per e-mail 12 Jun 2009, TRADOC. Also, TRADOC e-mail dtd 16 Jun 2009, states document is NOT copyright.