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SETTING A NATIONAL DEFENCE AND SECURITY AGENDA FOR THE INCOMING BUHARI ADMINISTRATION
Posted on May 24, 2015 by beegeagle

BEEGEAGLE’S BLOG
24 May, 2015

General Muhammadu Buhari, President-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

TERMS OF REFERENCE

* TRAINING, DOCTRINE AND ORBAT

– Adjustments to doctrine

– Thrust of national DEFSEC policy

– Content and thrust of local training

– Foreign training partnershiips for conventional and special operations

– Triservice training

– Desirability or otherwise of PMC training

* HARDWARE PROVISIONING

– Domestication of an armaments industry; why and wherefore plus any usable templates to be followed

– Hardware requirements for conventional and asymmetric operations

– What to produce locally and what to import (be realistic knowing the fact we have a war ongoing and that DICON barely manufacture mortars)

– How to fund local defence production, local synergies possible for the emplacement of a local military industrial complex

– How to navigate around the threat posed by arms embargoes on Nigeria’s DEFSEC forces

– Shortfalls in hardware exposed by ongoing counterinsurgency and counterpiracy operations

* SECURITY FORCES AND INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES

– Refocusing the Police Counter Terrorist Unit, Police Mobile Force and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps for greater effectiveness in counterinsurgency operations

– Roles of the Customs and Immigration Services in the ongoing
counterinsurgency operations

– Enhanced and proactive intelligence gathering, which way forward?

– Harnessing and efficiently acting on the efforts of the intelligence gathering efforts of defence and security forces in Nigeria

– DEFSEC-citizens’ collaboration for effective intelligence collaboration

* INFORMATION DELIVERY AND SOFT POWER

– Managing public perceptions and requisite tools for modern information management

– Possible synergies for enhanced management of information and perceptions

– Scope of Civil-Military relations.

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