Most of the early main storyline missions are related to the Medical Wing. After all, human well-being has to come first.
Probably unintentional, but notice how, in the intro movie, we see the Dollar Flu getting dripped onto the American $20 bill? The president featured on that bill, and whose portrait is being directly smeared with the pathogen, is Andrew Jackson. He's infamous for his bloodlust (he beat up a would-be assassin pretty bad, and he killed people in duels) and basically attempting to genocide the Native Americans. Fitting.
The Division is constantly called out on being a lawless criminal organization with too many powers under a questionably defined law. This seems like a Hero with Bad Publicity situation, except it's shown that the violence as well as power got to the First Wave Agents as well as some of the second. The Division really was a bad idea. It's just some of them like the Player Character are good people.
It takes a bit of looking to realize the symbol for The Division is a phoenix. You know, the bird of resurrection.
Why is the Division Agent able to bring the JTF Back from the Brink? This is due to the fact that not only are they a Hope Bringer but they actually use some effective strategy against the enemy factions. They quickly eliminate the enemy factions' leaders, establish a headquarters, acquire experts to lead the various needs of their organization, and make ample use of their tech advantages as well as local forces. The Agent, canonically, also moves from area to area cleaning out various districts of their problems before securing them. The rest of the factions remain low tech except for the LMA and are fighting each other as well as the JTF.
Why does the LMB not strike at the JTF early? Well, they're not technically enemies right up until the JTF tries to take their territory for their war crimes and due to their collaboration with Keener. Indeed, LMB guards are surprised the JTF still exists.
There has been some confusion on why the LMB holes up in their region around the UN when they express a desire to expand and retake the city. That's explained by looking at the situation. Bliss knows supplies and manpower are desperately low, and that the Rikers, Cleaners, Rioters, and remaining JTF will eventually kill each other. His position in Manhattan was already fortified, a known danger to anyone in the other hostile factions, and buffeted up against the Dark Zone no one wanted to cross through. Bliss' mistake wasn't that he didn't act, it was joining forces with Aaron Keener.
The fact that the whole pandemic and all the mindless, horrific chaos that followed was caused by one man with years of training in biochemistry, a 3D printer and an unshakable belief that he's doing the right thing. Gordon Amherst came to the conclusion that humanity was killing the planet, and decided that culling billions would be the best way to save it. Hardly an original evil villain plan... except he actually does it. By himself. And it's plausible. And he did it all with easy-to-acquire technology and a few disease samples to engineer a super-virus that reduced the greatest city in the world (and much of the rest of it, apparently) to anarchy.
And the real kicker? By the end of the game, someone even worse than him has found his lab, taken his replication technology and his "recipe book". Now Aaron Keener is on his way out of the quarantine zone with Division training, the Apocalypse in a rucksack and a vision of establishing a new world order with himself at the top, gained through releasing even more super-viruses across the globe. Given that Amherst's other reason for creating the Green Poison was in response to greed-driven uses of technology, one has to wonder if Amherst would be rolling in his grave at Keener's motivations.
Some horrible crossover implications: The Brooklyn safehouse at the beginning of the game is in the same building as the Illuminati HQ in The Secret World.
Why can you only find twenty SHD watches in Manhattan? Look at how many watches the Hunters have as trophies.
