ABSTRACT
The chapter looks into the concept of disaster management from the perspective of national security. Disaster disrupts the functioning of a society and causes human, material, economic or environmental losses. The chapter focuses on the traditional and non-traditional aspects of national security and contextualizes disaster within these parameters. Apart from other disasters, it is the time of reckoning to encounter and fight COVID-19. The chapter deals with whether the disaster is a health issue or be a part of national security. It discusses the geopolitics of disease. Being a part of Global South, India has increasingly been facing disasters, natural or human-made, and COVID-19. This is an evolving story and captures the development of the early phase of the disease. The chapter concludes with a note of caution: if a disaster is not linked to national security, in the short or long run, everybody is dead!
