To a fortunate many Nigerians not living in the North East , Nigeria’s decade long war against Boko Haram is an abstraction and the suffering it brings, though easy to understand, is hard to truly imagine.In the last decade the Nigerian government failed to appreciate history., they quickly forgot that Nigeria came to the brink of war with Cameroon, and by extension France in the last fifteen years.


They quickly forgot that the Nigerian Army was forced to drive out an invading Army, driving them deep into Chadian until they were less than 12 kilometres from N’Djamena. There are only two countries Nigeria has had to contend militarily, and the source of friction has been over Nigeria’s resources.


Yet the systematic decimation of the Nigerian military by successive administrations continued unabated for years. They failed to think long term, and its costs us seriously, in that today, the weakness and shortcomings of the Nigerian Army has been exploited by Nigeria’s strategic foes – Chad, Cameroon, France.


The last five years has been open on Nigeria, a global free for all. We lost Bakassi, Boko Haram has unleashed an death and destruction on Nigeria’s North East on an unprecedented scale. We’ve had Chadian troops brazenly cross into Nigerian territory to conduct military operations on Nigerian territory without bothering to notify or seek permission from the Nigerian government.
We’ve witnessed Cameroon unleash death and destruction on Nigeria in an apocalyptic scale by releasing a large volume of water from the Lado Dam in Cameroon. Killing hundreds and submerging 250 villages and displacing 50,000 Nigerians. For the sake of alibi the Cameroonian government gave Nigeria a 5 day warning of its intentions, which frankly does not give the Nigeria government enough time to communicate with people to vacate the flood prone area. An action that is akin to a declaration of war. Despite the unbelievable damage the Cameroonian government defiantly refuses to compensate the victims.

On the military aspect we’ve seen Yaounde turn down Nigeria’s request to pursue and attack Boko Haram fighters retreating into Cameroon, yet on multiple occasions Cameroonian BIR have crossed into territory,kill hundreds of civilians and burning entire villages in a show of bravado, before retreating back across the border. All without prior notification and approval. Needless to say these events are as a direct consequence of Nigeria’s failure to invest on its military.

The only way to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past is to have a robost deterrence, a guarantee of assured economic and military reprisals of greater ferosity, the kind Nigeria had in the eighties and ninties.

The only way to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past is to have a robost deterrence, a guarantee of assured economic and military reprisals of greater ferosity, the kind Nigeria had in the eighties and ninties.

TURNING POINT.

The turning point of the Nigerian Army came with The election of former Army General and military head of state -Muhammadu Buhari.

The Boko Haram menace may have diminished somewhat, brewing tensions in the Lake Chad basin at escalate into armed clashes, yet another threat at Nigeria’ doorstep. Against this backdrop it is prudent to identify and analyse potential conflict scenarios. They bring these concept into binding focus and deny us the luxury of looking away.

In this pictorial dramatization we examine the man responsible reforming the Nigerian armed forces, the anti corruption crackdown , its modernization efforts and its current capacity to defend against external aggression.

Pictorial Dramatization/complete analysis

https://defensenigeria.blog/2017/08/08/episode-3-who-will-prevail-in-a-war-between-nigeria-and-french-west-africa/

Another problem Buhari propaganda I guess

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