Disaster response (merged thread)

[davidbfpo]

Following the catalyst of the next post's content I have reviewed this arena and merged a number of stand alone threads to here. Plus changing the title.

There are a number of threads here that supplement this one, e.g. that on teh response to Hurricane Katrina.

[davidbfpo]

An Intel Brief from the Soufan Group 'The Natural Disaster Threat':

Bottom Line Up Front:
• Last week’s devastating earthquakes in Ecuador and Japan demonstrated that while terrorism is a serious global threat, natural disasters represent a threat of an altogether different scale
• In terms of lives lost and economies battered, droughts, earthquakes, and floods stress and destabilize millions of people every year
• The cost of global terrorism in 2014 was estimated at nearly $53 billion; the cost of natural disasters in 2013 was estimated at $119 billion
• While very different types of threats, terrorism and natural disasters both generate instability; responses that stress cooperation, mitigation, and resilience are the most effective.

Link:http://soufangroup.com/tsg-intelbrie...saster-threat/