Strategic re- orientations towards the Indo-Pacific, the escalation of information and cyber-warfare operations, the ascendance of hostile state actors such as Russia and China, and the chaotic drawdown in Afghanistan have repeatedly underpinned the need for operational agility amidst a cluttered security landscape. [...] Increasingly the role of the health and security sectors overlap for high income countries and in particular members of the Five Eyes Alliance. [...] Although the deployment of security and 1 The term security sector is used according to the definition provided by the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces. [...] Throughout the pandemic the increasing involvement of health within a wider security paradigm has reinforced the relevance of health security intelligence as a field of co-operative development for Five Eyes and wider international security regimes. [...] Sustaining attention on the technical and strategic requirements of inter-allied cooperation will require expertise from the intelligence and public health sectors – greater harmonization of approaches will be necessary to meet the ongoing challenge of COVID-19 and the certain appearance of health security threats of similar or even greater consequence in the coming years.
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