SARS-CoV-2 Was Not A Strategic Surprise and the Belgian Intelligence Services Should Not Be Blamed

In June 2020, the French-speaking journal La Libre Belgique published a carte blanche (opinion) entitled Why the Intelligence Services Failed to Warn of the Coronavirus . Its main argument was that a new nontraditional security (NTS) threat appeared in Wuhan, China, in the end of 2019 and that the intelligence services did fail collectively. In the first half of 2020, economic experts explained that SARS-CoV-2 was a so-called black swan an unpredictable event. In this paper, we will develop four elements in response to these assertions: (1) The current security environment is much more complex... Mehr ...