This book was started well before the arrival of COVID-19 taking a holistic view of pandemics in general looking at surveillance and prevention, preparedness planning and training, management and administration, global supply chains, communications (formal and informal channels), information technology (role in training, delivery of health services, data analytics and modeling pandemics), mitigation strategies (e.g., quarantine), security, policing and the law.

In the end it seems we were not prepared nor ready for dealing with COVID-19. What will happen the next time?

Dag K.J.E. von Lubitz & Candace J Gibson, (Eds). The Nature of Pandemics. CRC Press, Francis & Taylor Group, Boca Raton, 2023 (published Nov 3, 2022).

The Coronavirus pandemic is fueling conflict and fostering extremism while concurrently empowering gangs, cartels, and mafias in their quest for power and profit. In COVID-19, Gangs, and Conflict, Editors John P. Sullivan and Robert J. Bunker bring together a curated collection of both new and previously published material to explore the trends and potentials of the global pandemic emergency. Topics include an exploration of proto-statemaking by criminal groups, the interaction of pandemics and conflict, as well as a comparison of gangs, criminal cartels, and mafias exploiting the crisis and exerting criminal governance in Brazil, El Salvador, Mexico, Colombia, and South Africa. Implications for national security, biosecurity, slums, transnational organized crime, and threats and opportunities in the contested pandemic space are assessed. SWJ

John P. Sullivan and Robert J. Bunker,( Eds.) COVID-19, Gangs, and Conflict: A Small Wars Journal-El Centro Reader. Small Wars Foundation, 2020.

C. Gibson & D. von Lubitz (2014). The Impact of Teams of Leaders Concept on Large Scale, Community-led Public Health Operations, 5th Annual Public Health Summit, Mt. Pleasant, MI.