Xavfra:


It is sad that Nigerians do dat ...

And col. Abu Ali ...I salute you....

The traitors in the rank are too much....
I still wonder what the DSS does

SamuelAnyawu:



The traitors are the Big Army top brats and DHQ cashing out on this war. ISWAP has overun several military bases here in Northern Borno without ambusing. When a military base will exchange fire with these bastards for over 2hours with no air support from Maiduguri. How long does it even take a Jet fighter from even Yola to arrive Borno?

No be boys for trench dey sell out abeg

bidexiii:
Boko haram terrorist releasing images from past fight claiming its recent, shows how desperate they can go in there propaganda lies.
A Styer APC that was destroyed, is what some people call or presume to be MBT.

lebuhsi:

But bidexii, who do you know it's not recent?...remember those armored vehicle Lt gen. Buratai commissioned few days ago?...pic 2 looks like one, I'm just saying though?

Toju200:
yeah I know those vehicles.These are past pics I swr..

lebuhsi:

But bidexii, who do you know it's not recent?...remember those armored vehicle Lt gen. Buratai commissioned few days ago?...pic 2 looks like one, I'm just saying though?

bidexiii:
Boko haram terrorist releasing images from past fight claiming its recent, shows how desperate they can go in there propaganda lies.
A Styer APC that was destroyed, is what some people call or presume to be MBT.

lebuhsi:

Okay, I just saw the video, much of it looks like scenes from the attacks in gorgi, this appears not to be the 1st time they'll do this when there are under pressure

Toju200:
that MBRL In the last pics was destroyed in an Airstrike that day...

bidexiii:


Major scenes or let me say 80% of the video is from Gorgi and don’t forget the very same week there attacks in Yobe also.
So it seems they patched the video all together.

[/b]I hope our top brass learns from this mistake and looks into troops transportation and standardization of armored vehicles for troops sake. Another saddening side of this story is that the NA looses scarce equipment to terrorist is bad, this vehicle is only few months old.

And I want to add one poor side of these armored vehicle is that it’s way too heavy even during this dry season. The vehicle is strong when it comes to armor and fire-power delivery but ease of maneuverability is very poor especially during combat, from the video one can easy tell the vehicle got stalked and abandoned when the attack was getting close.
I think the NA should look inwards into producing 4 x 4 armored vehicle like the proforce/REVA with heavy protection/fire power then we see less of vehicles been captured [b]

BabaOwen:


If is this easy as you're saying it, The Americans won't be signing a peace deal with the Taliban.

With the way things dey go for West Africa now, it will be so hard to conquer all this Islamic terrorist in the Western part of Africa. Even NATO and some other militaries in Mali are not having it easy.

The way i see things, this war is not ending this year or next year or anytime soon. It will take time, what the government can do for now is to let our military always be on the offensive and make sure we don't have troops dying in large numbers.

jpphilips:


US is making a deal with Talbans because it is not their war!!
Do you expect the US to make a deal with the Taliban if they were operating in Philadelphia?

nemesis8u:


Nigerian SF were never trained in India. That's wrong info.

DavidAdeyemo:

Although I am inexperienced in military operations but following this thread for years now I observed two things?
1. Why can't we have a chopper escorting them whenever they move many men and materials? Because to me the army need eyes in the sky due the dynamics of the enemy take for example the case of Gen. Adeniyi he has no business on ground that day, he should be in the sky coordinating affairs base on his overview of the battle ground.
2. Why is this operation not under the Chief of Defense Staff Office so that all the security agencies will contribute men and materials into a single course?
The case of Theatre Commander saying he has seen gunship they sent shows lack of coordination I think he should have some platforms under his command.

DavidAdeyemo:

Although I am inexperienced in military operations but following this thread for years now I observed two things?
1. Why can't we have a chopper escorting them whenever they move many men and materials? Because to me the army need eyes in the sky due the dynamics of the enemy take for example the case of Gen. Adeniyi he has no business on ground that day, he should be in the sky coordinating affairs base on his overview of the battle ground.
2. Why is this operation not under the Chief of Defense Staff Office so that all the security agencies will contribute men and materials into a single course?
The case of Theatre Commander saying he has seen gunship they sent shows lack of coordination I think he should have some platforms under his command.

Salatavor:
they trained in Mali? But your special forces train in Russia, India, Israel, Pakistan and Britain. How come we are losing to those who trained in Mali?

kabe1:


This makes no sense.

The US has the world's largest forward force projection. Whether in Colombus or Kandahar they can deliver the punch.

The US is making the deal with the Taliban because after nearly 20 years of US and NATO military operations in Afghanistan, they have come to the realisation that they cannot win militarily.

neyobills:



US is Iswap biggest enemy however they do not owe Nigeria any obligation to share,intel with us since we can as well build our drone base and they are not stopping us at least even if there is corruption its our internal problem and wont meddle into anything thats not affecting their foreign policies,the reason for the US bases in Niger is Uraniam deposits.

I totally commend the Tchadian Army for the offensive they are about the best in guerilla warfare in Africa so im not surprised however it should not be an avenue to bash the NA,even tho they have their downsides however they must have recovered way more ammunition cache from BHT besides its a MNJTF op which is commanded by a Nigerian so we can be,more than sure NA boots and assets were on ground in the offensive and its not yet eureka for Tchad too anyway so we totally need to grow up and cut the NA some slack sometimes.

The weapon cache doesnt looks like NA ammo IMO most probably spills from Mali or Libya maybe.

jpphilips:


You are speaking from your personal opinion not based on previous & present events.
Before the Talibans agreed to come to the negotiation table, US dealt a severe blow to the Haqqani rebels presently reinforcing the Talibans, so the US has proved all that has to be proven fire power wise.
The real issue presently is that the fight is getting unpopular at home & there are no serious objective left so what are they supposed to fight for?
The US simply no longer wants to fight not that they can't win, there is no objective left, there is no political, economic or other strategic objective left there.

jpphilips:


You are speaking from your personal opinion not based on previous & present events.
Before the Talibans agreed to come to the negotiation table, US dealt a severe blow to the Haqqani rebels presently reinforcing the Talibans, so the US has proved all that has to be proven fire power wise.
The real issue presently is that the fight is getting unpopular at home & there are no serious objective left so what are they supposed to fight for?
The US simply no longer wants to fight not that they can't win, there is no objective left, there is no political, economic or other strategic objective left there.

jpphilips:


You are speaking from your personal opinion not based on previous & present events.
Before the Talibans agreed to come to the negotiation table, US dealt a severe blow to the Haqqani rebels presently reinforcing the Talibans, so the US has proved all that has to be proven fire power wise.
The real issue presently is that the fight is getting unpopular at home & there are no serious objective left so what are they supposed to fight for?
The US simply no longer wants to fight not that they can't win, there is no objective left, there is no political, economic or other strategic objective left there.

bidexiii:


1) the problem is our top brass are still doing stuffs the same old way not learning from there past mistakes and they want to get results.
Why not something more stealthy that can report enemy positions during clearing/mopping up operations and if there is any need to call in an air strike. It takes less than minutes for air assets to reach anywhere in Borno or the North east theatre. The army needs her own close in air support for there own operations, we can leave deep air interdictions for the airforce.
I have always ask where is the air force in scenarios like Gorgi The airlord is doing well but much is needed in such tactical scenarios.

2) Other arms of the military are involved in the COIN in the northeast, even the NPF are not left out. But in terms of equipment support they can do much better.

jpphilips:


You are speaking from your personal opinion not based on previous & present events.
Before the Talibans agreed to come to the negotiation table, US dealt a severe blow to the Haqqani rebels presently reinforcing the Talibans, so the US has proved all that has to be proven fire power wise.
The real issue presently is that the fight is getting unpopular at home & there are no serious objective left so what are they supposed to fight for?
The US simply no longer wants to fight not that they can't win, there is no objective left, there is no political, economic or other strategic objective left there.

jpphilips:


You are speaking from your personal opinion not based on previous & present events.
Before the Talibans agreed to come to the negotiation table, US dealt a severe blow to the Haqqani rebels presently reinforcing the Talibans, so the US has proved all that has to be proven fire power wise.
The real issue presently is that the fight is getting unpopular at home & there are no serious objective left so what are they supposed to fight for?
The US simply no longer wants to fight not that they can't win, there is no objective left, there is no political, economic or other strategic objective left there.

kabe1:
Not taking anything away from the Chadian army, but PR stunts like what we have seen from Idris Deby does not qualify as victory over BHT.

Before slamming the Nigerian military, let us remember that the Nigerian Air Force conducts almost daily bombing of BHT with more dead BHT than what the Chadians are showing.

This is a fact.

20 dead BHT doesn't signal the end of Boko-Haram.

kabe1:


We are not losing. South-Africa spent 28 years in Angola fighting terrorists.

Syrian civil war has gone on for 9 years despite heavy Russian involvement.

Nigerian army suffered losses in an ambush to BHT, but we have successfully degraded BHT to carrying out hit and run in isolated areas.

That's hardly a victory