COVID-19’s National Security and Defence Lessons : Key Takeaways for Australia and India

COVID-19’s National Security and Defence Lessons : Key Takeaways for Australia and India

India

Australia

International Relations

Military

Indo-Pacific

Asia

Since February 2020 hardly a day has gone by where a national security academic or policymaker has not used the word ‘unprecedented' to describe global affairs in the age of COVID-19. The pandemic has created tectonic shifts in the globe's economic, social, political, and International plates. With a vaccine yet to be found, there is increasing evidence that COVID-19's second-order impacts have assured one thing: further uncertainty in International affairs. The crisis after the crisis of COVID-19 is yet to take shape, but it is coming. To prepare for what could well be a decade or more of strategic uncertainty, countries like Australia and India need to consider COVID-19s national security lessons and how these might impact on assumptions regarding preparation for what comes next. This paper explores some of the COVID-19s initial national security lessons for Australia and India.

Coyne, John

CLAWS Journal; Vol. 13 No. 2 (2020): Winter 2020; 137-153

2319-5177

Centre For Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi, India

2020-12-31

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