Assessment of military preparedness for naturogenic threat: the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic

Irena Tušer; Jiří Jánský; Antonín Petráš

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06817

Assessment of military preparedness for naturogenic threat: the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic

Heliyon. 2021 Apr 15;7(4):e06817. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06817. eCollection 2021 Apr.

Authors

Irena Tušer¹, Jiří Jánský², Antonín Petráš¹

Affiliations

¹ AMBIS College, Department of Security and Law, Lindnerova 1, 180 00, Prague, Czech Republic.
² University of Defence, Brno, Faculty of Military Technology, Kounicova 65, 662 10, Brno, Czech Republic.

Abstract

This article deals with the provision of cooperation of the Army of the Czech Republic with other units of rescue teams in the implementation of rescue and liquidation work in the regions of the Czech Republic in non-military crisis situations. At the present time of the global pandemic of covid-19 and the associated mass deployment of forces and resources of the primary and secondary units of the rescue system, the required effective cooperation in practice has proved necessary. The paper deals with the analysis of emergency management in a state of emergency in order to contribute to the improvement of civil-military cooperation. Based on the results of the research survey, the authors proposed evaluation criteria for determining the level of emergency preparedness of the forces and resources of the Army of the Czech Republic.

Keywords: Army of the Czech Republic; Civil-military cooperation; Crisis situation; Emergency event; Emergency preparedness; Integrated rescue system; Liquidation work; Rescue work.