By the Editor – one strand of long running discourse in the NR is Climate Change. Some accept it as a reality without attributing cause, some believe it is as a direct consequence of man’s actions and others question whether such change is anything but natural longer-term variations or cycles. But there seems to be common ground in acknowledging that change (to whatever extent) is exacerbating problems, in particular with respect to disease, in an increasingly crowded planet. In the light of their responses to the Coronavirus pandemic, the author here examines how the armed forces might need t…