SIGNAL Today

摘要

"Amen. Do we even have 'medical intelligence?' I would guess that 99 percent of our intelligence is electronic. Maybe 1 percent is human intelligence. Could we even have 0.1 percent of our intel effort dedicated to medical issues? Seems like a gigantic hole in our intelligence. ... Spanish Flu killed 45,000 versus 53,000 combat deaths. Seems like medical intelligence would be worthwhile. Or go back to the Spanish American War in which Yellow Fever might have killed as many troops as the Spanish Army. Back then, the U.S. Army put a major effort into defeating the Yellow Fever. With COVID, we know that it disabled two U.S. Navy warships, the USS Roosevelt and the USS Kidd. Here is a medical event disabling the U.S. military. Seems like some intelligence on this would have been wise."