A trait formerly reserved for France, but now the U.S has joined the ranks of a gangster state supplying weapons and aid to keep dictators in power.

The U.S Military is looking to build a command and control centre in Chad’s capital N’djamena. For what?

This coming the same day the U.S delivered to the Chadian Air Force two Cessna 208B Grand Caravan aircraft configured for the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) role. The U.S spent $43 million on the two aircraft as well as hangars and maintenance areas.

Its important here to note that the Derby regime has never in an official capacity asked for foreign military aid, yet Between 2015 and 2017 the US has provided security assistance totalling $135 million. The same period the Obama administration pulled all stops to block the world’s 4th largest democracy from getting weapons, over alleged human rights abuses by the Nigerian army.

Cameroon has also received two Caravan aircraft, which were delivered in January this year. Cameroonian Air Force air and ground crews underwent training on the Cessna 208 in the United States in 2017.

With Boko Haram technically defeated and losing relevance, why is West Africa fast turning into an unsinkable aircraft carrier for the Franco-American alliance? In the space of under five years West Africa has gone from the most stable and democratic regional bloc, to become the most militarized region in Africa.

Nigeria should not be taking its neighbors and the Franco-American balancing against it lying down. Nigeria should start expanding military ties with the Britannia, China and if possible Russia.

How is Nigeria being encircled? Good question.

While France is rooting for the inclusion of countries that have no political, cultural and economic affinity to ECOWAS ( which is bizarre), the U.S. military is encircling Nigeria with a chain of air bases and military ports.

As DefenseNigeria has written in the past, these Pentagon plans are part of the Air and Land encirclement strategy. The idea is to have enough FrenCH and US bases and Air Force capabilities peppered throughout the West African region so that the stubborn behemoth Nigeria would be too surrounded to mount any form of retaliatory attack in the event of a conflict….and there will be one very soon. Nigeria’s defenses have been tested by provocative incursions that makes no strategic sense other than to provoke a reaction.

The American and French people are kept in the dark because they know the people will not stand for military engagements in the continents only remaining dictatorships. That’s why these buildups are being hushed in the diplomatic circle as possibly as they can. The death of four U.S Rangers in NIGER nearly blew up the lid.

Americans were stunned to realise there are U.S forces in Niger. Most Americans couldn’t show you were Niger was on the map even if the if their lives depended on it. Americans wanted to know what U.S forces were doing in West Africa. Military advisers was they say. Military advisers to who?

There was a time when the build up of forces in these countries would have provoked a reaction. As recently as 2002, when the State Intelligence Service got wind of the near completion of a military airbase in Garoua, 80 km from Calabar, President Obasanjo put the military on a hair-trigger alert.

The Nigerian Air Force based on the eastern flank of the Tactical Air Command in Yola and Maiduguri was placed on maximum alert. The Nigerian Army 3rd armoured Division was also placed on alert. The National Security Council, headed by Obasanjo ordered the immediate reactivation of two Nigerian Air Force bases in Yola and Maiduguri recently closed and its compliment of two attack helicopter squadron was ordered to be ready by the end of the month.

The swift action and coordination by Nigeria’s military planners afterwards did not go unnoticed by the Franco military alliance. The message was clear – If the Franco Cameroonian, and by extension France is eager to solve the dispute militarily, Nigeria will likely oblige.

Enter 2018 and one wonders if this is the same country with a military larger and more equipped than it was in 2002. Nigeria’s military planners should be losing sleep over the deployment of the world’s most advanced attack drones mere kilometres from Nigeria, putting the entire country within reach of French and American air power.

Those Reaper drones deployed in Chad, Niger and Cameroon are a masterpiece in U.S technology. China’s reaction to the deployment of THAAD missile batteries in South Korea was swift because Beijing knows information is the cornerstone of the U.S military. Those batteries have radars powerful enough to spy far inland into Chinese territory from bases in Seoul. No nation that takes its security seriously will turn a blind eye to the insane level of ISR capable platforms with strike capabilities on its border. Nigeria seems to be the exception.

Lets pretend Mirage 2000 and Rafale jets are not deployed in the region, focusing only on drones. Those Reaper drones can knock out Nigeria’s long-range surveillance aircrafts in their hangers and the primitive air defense systems located deep inside Nigeria at will within minutes. The initial ‘blinding campaign’ would be followed by a larger air and ground assault. It will be over before the 9 o clock news.

The surprising thing here is that the same no-nonsense army general Buhari, who nearly court marshalled when he defied the Presidents order to stand down, but proceeded to pursue Derby’s invading army back across the border into Chadian territory, stopping just kilometres short of the Chadian capital N’Djamena, is the same man at the helm of affairs in Nigeria today.

Abuja seems pleased with the fact that Paris and Washington is planning contingencies to “intervene” in Nigeria like they did in LIBYA and is militarily encircling Nigeria via proxy without a clear and concise threat to the American and French homeland.

Imagine the calls for punitive measures if Nigeria was backing Anglo-phone Cameroonians or Tuategs with money, weapons and building air and naval bases in Calabar with the explicit aim of bombing Cameroon to smithereens.

In 1983 France, even though it was privy of Chads intents could not use its air power against Nigeria, because unlike Libya, the conventional strikes aimed at Nigeria could spark a regional all out war. Nigeria as an entity was united, and as such had the political capacity to coordinate actions. Same happened in 2002 and 2008.

What’s changed is that, while the Nigerian military is better funded and better equipped today, the nation has been handicapped by internal strife lasting almost over a decade and fuelled by unseen external players to prevent stability, mired in perpetual conflict

They have all but splintered the army into ethic factions, and as a consequence make an authoritative military stance in one direction or another has tasking endeavour. If Nigeria faces a 1983 style invasion today, it may likely not prevail as quickly and effectively as it did 35 years ago because the nation is physically and physiologically drained. It wont take long for the army to splinter into ethnic factions once the fighting begins.

It will take Nigeria years to regain th a social cohesion even if internal strife was to stop immediately. But that is a pipe dream. Pandora’s box has been opened already. Nigeria is at a precipes, it has to stop its neighbors being used as a proxy with a very credible deterrence.

https://defensenigeria.com/2018/05/10/zero-hour-the-pentagon-to-build-command-control-centre-in-chad/

Your naive posts seem to imply there's a country called Nigeria and it has things like 'strategy' and 'plans'. While the Fulani ethnic militia is busy erasing Nigerians, it's president can't read complex English, and handful of senators know how to use the internet, you're here dreaming up a myth where the franco-american alliance is challenged by a dead body of a country that has multiple key politicians that we're born and raised in that same Chad.

This man , Wetin U dey talk so,Dhq no understand oo

Tribalism has killed our military. The glory of our military is gone.

Please go and learn what's happening around you and leave the war games to people with countries. Did you know that Nasir El Rufai, who runs Nigeria when Buhari is away, is from Chad? Abacha as well? Did you know that when the Nigerian army went to ethnically surpress Nigeria deltans, none of them knew how to swim and retreated after countless drowning mishaps? Do you know the percentage of Nigeria's 'army' that bares loyalty to foriegn ethnic warlords?

Wake up

Reaper Drone base in Garoua, 80km from Calabar.

Reaper Drone base in Chad.

SSGN:
Reaper Drone base in Garoua, 80km from Calabar.

Reaper Drone base in Chad.

Did you know that the Nigerian army has to steal food and water from villagers in Bornu?

Can you name a Nigerian political leader that can produce the satelite picture you produced?

Did you know that the Naira is printed in Germany?

Ofodirinwa:
Your naive posts seem to imply there's a country called Nigeria and it has things like 'strategy' and 'plans'. While the Fulani ethnic militia is busy erasing Nigerians, it's president can't read complex English, and handful of senators know how to use the internet, you're here dreaming up a myth where the franco-american alliance is challenged by a dead body of a country that has multiple key politicians that we're born and raised in that same Chad.

It is naive to think Nigeria is a country incapable of strategy and planning. And this is no myth. Just stating facts.

U.S. Army to build Command and Control base in Chad.

http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51627&catid=47&Itemid=110

Ofodirinwa:

Did you know that the Nigerian army has to steal food and water from villagers in Bornu?

Can you name a Nigerian political leader that can produce the satelite picture you produced?

Did you know that the Naira is printed in Germany?

The first picture of Hurricane Katrina was taken by a Nigerian sattelite NIGCOMSAT -1.

Ofodirinwa:
Please go and learn what's happening around you and leave the war games to people with countries. Did you know that Nasir El Rufai, who runs Nigeria when Buhari is away, is from Chad? Abacha as well? Did you know that when the Nigerian army went to ethnically surpress Nigeria deltans, none of them knew how to swim and retreated after countless drowning mishaps? Do you know the percentage of Nigeria's 'army' that bares loyalty to foriegn ethnic warlords?

Wake up

Learn from you? You guys have a hard time digesting things you don't understand. This is no war game. 25,000 Nigerians killed by Boko Haram. You can securing lives and property a game because you've probably never seen or experienced war, you are not affected so you font care. Until it happens.

If a 'nigerian' see an American solider and see a Nigerian soldier, which one do you confidently believe that person would view as a treat? How many Nigerians have been killed beaten or raped by the Nigerian Army in the past 10 years and what makes you feel like Nigerians wouldn't welcome a wholesale American invasion to save them from the real issues in their life

Use your energy on something substantial. You're a bright guy wasting your IQ blogging about a cadaver

SSGN:


Learn from you? You guys have a hard time digesting things you don't understand. This is no war game. 25,000 Nigerians killed by Boko Haram. You can securing lives and property a game because you've probably never seen or experienced war, you are not affected so you font care. Until it happens.

What happens in a war that isn't a part of government sanctioned life in Nigeria? Death? Chaos? Rape? Torture?

Your commander in chief said that an attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the north

Boko Haram that kills more than Isis stopped killings so that Bornu people can vote against PDP peacefully

Countless members of Boko Haram included admitted bombers have been pardoned

Is our property secure? Are the lives of the people in the zoo secure? Is there a living Nigerian that has ever been protected by the military.

Didn't Chad and Cameroon invade us multiple times over Boko Haram then tell us not to cross their boarders? Didn't we obey?

You don't have to learn from me. Learn from yourself. You don't have a country and you don't have an army. Unless you're Fulani then at least you have all those rapists from Niger in the bushes attacking benue people over cows with Nigerian army supervision.

SSGN:


The first picture of Hurricane Katrina was taken by a Nigerian sattelite NIGCOMSAT -1.

That British satelite? Do you know how many 'nigerians' run from this hellhole to go and work in foriegn satelite development and save exploration agencies around the world? Do you know the contribution of the 'Nigerian' brain to Western militaries?

Now think of this and remember that your president can't confidently read, your minister of finance was an accountant, and you military is feed off donations. WikiLeaks said thtrs no reason to spy on Nigeria because if you ask then they'll tell you. Does that sound like a country to you? That will challenge Cameroon talkless of the US?

The journalist writing that piece is very emotional. The Deep State and some actors are the ones that supply weapons to militants and pay them $1500 to join Boko Haram and drop food and other resources using Helicopters to the fighters. This is a business of arm dealers who sponsor skirmishes in hopes of selling weapons to the nation-states who seek weapons in the black market to fight militants.

These African leaders are hookwinked into a trade they have no ideas of the motive and source. Buhari is timid enough to go to UK and dance around without unraveling the sponsors of Boko Haram because it also offers him opportunity to budget billions of dollars in the guise of fighting Boko Haram.

It is always about the money for them, but the West knows the tricks of Islamists who will capitalize on these lapses and invade entire regions, so they are positioning those troops there so that this place will not turn to a new Terrorist heaven as the Nigeria economy keeps deteriorating in no little measures.

But then, one must understand that the Francophone countries are still paying Taxes to France and France is one of the countries that help win America's Independence from Britain, so their sworn Allegiance is eternal. So, France is protecting her tax paying Slaves, and America's Influence is required to keep the slaves in line and protect the slave territories from the Ayatollahs.

Nigeria is on a ticking time bomb. If Buhari continues as Nigeria's President come 2019, even a tortoise who knows his antecedant will not be caught within the block-chain of what is to come.

Welcome to the New World Order.

Ok. Nigeria is hopeless. We get it !!.

Buratai and his boss, the idíot lesbian goat Muhammadu Buhari would rather send dancing pythons to the peaceful SE or smiling crocodiles to the SS than bother themselves with anything you wrote here. With the money spent by our clownish president for those super tucano toys that won't even come into the country till 2020, we would have gotten better deals from the Russians and Chinese but na fura de nunu brain dey rule us so it's better we all go home and collect native insurance just in case

@ OP, trust me with all the troubles the Nigerian citizens have passed through in the hands of all these useless politicians and soldiers flogging them at every turn and opportunity, by the time the American and french troops arrive, it would be same Nigerians pointing where our soldiers are hiding, people are simply just tired of the whole set up and looking for a reprieve in any form...
Peace..!!!

I thank you all for showing ssgn that we are wiser than he thinks and that patrotism is not blind.

Ofodirinwa:

Did you know that the Nigerian army has to steal food and water from villagers in Bornu?

Can you name a Nigerian political leader that can produce the satelite picture you produced?

Did you know that the Naira is printed in Germany?

You don't know a lot about a lot about your country.

SternProphet:


[s]You don't know a lot about a lot about your country.[/s]

??

Ofodirinwa:


That British satelite? Do you know how many 'nigerians' run from this hellhole to go and work in foriegn satelite development and save exploration agencies around the world? Do you know the contribution of the 'Nigerian' brain to Western militaries?

Now think of this and remember that your president can't confidently read, your minister of finance was an accountant, and you military is feed off donations. WikiLeaks said thtrs no reason to spy on Nigeria because if you ask then they'll tell you. Does that sound like a country to you? That will challenge Cameroon talkless of the US?

A lot of people still live in the illusion the op is living under.......

By the time their eye open, na to run leave the Niger area sure pass

romme2u:


A lot of people still live in the illusion the op is living under.......

By the time their eye open, na to run leave the Niger area sure pass

The OP doesn't seem to want to get it. I have time for him and that GenBuhari guy and sometimes wonder if they're the same poster.

Ofodirinwa:


The OP doesn't seem to want to get it. I have time for him and that GenBuhari guy and sometimes wonder if they're the same poster.

There are a lot of alternate in this forum which they use for their idiosyncrasies....

Don't burst their little bubbles, it keeps them sane in this hell-hole

....naa my life does not revolve around Nairaland. You don't have to turn every disagreement into a turkey fight. Get a grip.