商品描述
Modern drone warfare may not seem revolutionary in its technology--but the way it's used has changed everything. What once was assigned to battalions now fits into a single soldier's gear. The scale and speed of adaptation in both attack and defense have transformed the battlefield. Biological threats follow a similar pattern. They can be high-tech or low-tech, old or new, destructive or disruptive. They might emerge from space research, from revived extinct species, or even from our own microbiome, enhanced by technology. The real challenge isn't just the agents themselves, but how, when, and where they're deployed. Lessons from COVID-19 and Ebola show how secondary effects can destabilize societies. Current conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza, and India hint at future scenarios where bioagents are delivered by drones or hidden in weapons. The Meta-biothreat is the sum of all these possibilities in different iterations and guises- biocrime, bioterrorism, biowarfare. The novelty lies not in the tools, but in the evolving mindset behind them. Threats mutate. Strategies adapt. Vigilance must keep pace.
This book proposes the concept of Disruptive Biosecurity, a holistic approach flexible in aims, methodology and scope: instead of fixating on a single agent or perpetrator, it targets vulnerabilities across the entire threat pipeline. In a world of adaptive dangers, security must evolve just as fast.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
現代無人機戰爭在技術上可能看起來並不革命性，但其使用方式卻改變了一切。過去由營隊負責的任務，如今卻可以融入單一士兵的裝備中。攻擊和防禦的規模與適應速度的變化，已經徹底改變了戰場。
生物威脅遵循類似的模式。它們可以是高科技或低科技、舊的或新的、具破壞性或具擾亂性。這些威脅可能源自太空研究、復活的絕種物種，甚至是我們自身的微生物組，這些都受到技術的增強。真正的挑戰不僅在於這些病原體本身，而在於它們的部署方式、時間和地點。從 COVID-19 和埃博拉的教訓中可以看出，次級影響如何使社會不穩定。當前在烏克蘭、加沙和印度的衝突暗示了未來的情境，其中生物劑可能通過無人機運送或隱藏在武器中。
Meta-biothreat 是所有這些可能性在不同變體和外觀下的總和——生物犯罪、生物恐怖主義、生物戰爭。新穎之處不在於工具，而在於其背後不斷演變的心態。威脅會變異，策略會適應，警覺性必須與時俱進。
本書提出了破壞性生物安全（Disruptive Biosecurity）的概念，這是一種在目標、方法論和範疇上靈活的整體方法：它不再專注於單一的病原體或作案者，而是針對整個威脅管道中的脆弱性。在一個充滿適應性危險的世界中，安全必須同樣快速地演變。
作者簡介
Manousos E. Kambouris served in the Special Forces during his mandatory Tour of Duty in the Hellenic Army (1993-5). He owns a biology BSc (since 1992), and a PhD in Medical Mycology (since 2000), followed by 2-year Post Doc studies in the US (Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, UMDNJ/Rutgers; 2000-2) and teaching or research contracts in 6 Greek universities and research centers from 2002 to 2025, while serving as a Chem/Bio consultant of the Hellenic Police Headquarters in the 2004 Athens Olympics. He has delivered invited lectures in the Hellenic National Defense College (2010-4), the Hellenic National Security School (2005), been pro bono consultant of the CO of the Joint NBC Company of the Hellenic Armed Forces in 2017-9 and been invited as an external ECDC expert for the 'Biological threats in the framework of hybrid threats scenarios Expert Meeting' in 2024. He has published two books in Greek on Future and unorthodox warfare (2025, ISBNs: 978-618-5353-58-2 and 978-618-5353-60-5), and three books in English on Biosecurity: Hybrid Warfare 2.2 (Springer) Cham (2024), ISBN: 978-3-031-60018-0; Biosecurity in the making (CRC Press) Boca Raton FL (2023), ISBN: 9781032277325; Genomics in Biosecurity (Elsevier Academic Press) London (2021), ISBN: 978-0-32-385236-4. He has (co)authored 15 peer reviewed publications touching Biosecurity, Bioterrorism and Biowarfare that include both research papers and reviews out of a total of 56 publications to date.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Manousos E. Kambouris 在希臘陸軍服役期間的強制服役期間擔任特種部隊（1993-1995）。他擁有生物學學士學位（自1992年起），以及醫學真菌學博士學位（自2000年起），隨後在美國進行了兩年的博士後研究（羅伯特·伍德·約翰遜醫學院，UMDNJ/Rutgers；2000-2002），並在2002年至2025年間在六所希臘大學和研究中心擔任教學或研究合約，同時在2004年雅典奧運會期間擔任希臘警察總部的化學/生物顧問。他曾在希臘國防學院（2010-2014）和希臘國家安全學校（2005）發表受邀演講，並在2017年至2019年擔任希臘武裝部隊聯合NBC公司指揮官的無償顧問，於2024年被邀請作為外部ECDC專家參加「混合威脅情境下的生物威脅專家會議」。他已在希臘出版了兩本關於未來和非常規戰爭的書籍（2025年，ISBNs: 978-618-5353-58-2 和 978-618-5353-60-5），並在英語中出版了三本關於生物安全的書籍：Hybrid Warfare 2.2（Springer）Cham（2024年），ISBN: 978-3-031-60018-0；Biosecurity in the making（CRC Press）Boca Raton FL（2023年），ISBN: 9781032277325；Genomics in Biosecurity（Elsevier Academic Press）倫敦（2021年），ISBN: 978-0-32-385236-4。他已（共同）撰寫了15篇經過同行評審的出版物，涉及生物安全、生物恐怖主義和生物戰，至今共計56篇出版物。
