blacKDalia:
U.S objectives in Afghanistan are easy to list: stability, good governance and prosperity. It should be noted that the United States did not make a premeditated choice to focus it's attention on the small land locked mountainous region. 9/11 changed all that. The initial goal of US military operations was narrowly conceived ; the elimination of the threat posed by al-Qaeda. The mission was urgent and not preceded by any long term objective. Albeit they did make quick work of the Taliban regime, their efforts did not produce any rapid result on the hunt for Osama bin Laden. The longer the US stayed in Afghanistan, the more blurry the line became between it's narrow counter terror mission and a more ambitious effort of building a post Taliban Afghanistan.The question is, was the US' strategic objective of building a stable and prosperous Afghanistan achieved? The answer is no. And I think the Taliban will be back.

seankafor:
sometimes you over talk as you supposed to.

No rebel born of mortal can dare attack the fleet of escorts and armoured security details of chief of army staff.
The kind of helicopters and drones that I'll be hovering over the sky will even send shivers down any fvckers spines.

Toju200:
well they aren't winning From my point of view...
They killed more civilians than terrorists in Airstrike and you call that mission successful

seankafor:
hmm, are you the one asking this kinda cheap question?
Why chief of staff is moving with tight security details?

And who told you the drones and helos arent deployed to assist in the coin ops?

GabrielYulaw:


These kind of fickers don't really care about death, not when there are 72 fresh virgins waiting for them. Frankly, if the Chief comes, I think ISWAP will attack. If they lose they gain a propaganda coup as being so daring as to attack a whole Chief of Army staff. If they win and capture some important personalities...

But have you asked yourself why we can have so many drones and choppers guarding someone, just one person. But you barely hear of such drones and choppers coming to help and bombing the shit of the enemy when our troops on the frontline are facing an attack.

jpphilips:


You must be a child not to know the UAE is a US ally before you were born.
Who expects you to know that 3,500 US troops are deployed at the Al Dhafra Air Base in Abu Dhabi.
Who expects you to know that UAE is only one of three countries and the only Arab nation to participate with the US in six coalition actions over the last 20 years: Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Bosnia-Kosovo, the 1990 Gulf War and the fight against ISIS.
UAE can get Chinook as a US ally, Nigeria can not.

Singapore and the U.S. have a strong bilateral defense partnership, underpinned by the 1990 Memorandum of Understanding and 2005 Strategic Framework Agreement, and most recently elevated by the 2015 enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement

You don't know these basic military relations between these countries yet open your butt hole to call me ignorant?
Seems the goats we left in the politics section are here, time to leave!!

seankafor:
hmm, are you the one asking this kinda cheap question?
Why chief of staff is moving with tight security details?

And who told you the drones and helos arent deployed to assist in the coin ops?

kemicalreact:
Laughable

GabrielYulaw:


Lol. I am sure the US is currently in Syria and Iraq because they want stability and prosperity in those countries. All the oil there is of course not a strong motivating factor.

kemicalreact:
You nailed it. Saudi Arabia (a known sponsor of terrorism) is a strong US ally. You dare not sue a Saudi citizen to court as an American, no matter what he or she does.

I find it ridiculous that some people still believe the US is in the Middle East to ensure peace and prosperity

kemicalreact:
Do you have a source for this?

Toju200:
this is one Russian airstrikes kill 5 civilians in northern Syria - Anadolu Agency
https://www.aa.com.tr › middle-east › rus...
Another: Russian airstrike kills 10 civilians in northwestern Syria | AFP - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com › watch

kemicalreact:
You nailed it. Saudi Arabia (a known sponsor of terrorism) is a strong US ally. You dare not sue a Saudi citizen to court as an American, no matter what he or she does.

I find it ridiculous that some people still believe the US is in the Middle East to ensure peace and prosperity

bidex111:


Partially you’re right, very country would go after there own national interest but 9/11 was the turning point.
See they know the more terrorism grow in the Middle East and other part of the world, the more Americans are not save.

bidex111:


Partially you’re right, very country would go after there own national interest but 9/11 was the turning point.
See they know the more terrorism grow in the Middle East and other part of the world, the more Americans are not save.

GabrielYulaw:


Lol. It has never ever been about peace and prosperity. During the Arab Spring, we heard not a peep from the US when protests were taking place in Saudi Arabia and other strong monarchical countries. What were the protesters asking for? Democracy and an end to monumental corruption.

Now, the US is supposed to be the champion of democracy in the world, so why did it keep silent when it could have enabled democratic change in the Middle East? Answer- it currently has control over the monarchical governments in power there and a democratic government might not be so friendly to it.

This same democracy loving America had the democratic Iranian government replaced by the Shah cos he was about to nationalize their oil industry. The shah was hated and corrupt, but that didn't stop America from giving him their full support and throwing open their arsenal for the Shah to buy any weaponry he wanted. He bought F-14s and more.

America so loved democracy and prosperity that it provided the means for evil governments everywhere on the globe from Latin America to Africa to stay in power and murder hundreds and millions of their citizens. They supported people like Mobutu, Saddam, the South African apartheid regime and provided training and weaponry to Latin American death squads that killed raped, murdered and maimed without mercy.

There is no nobility about the US in the least. They have always been driven by money and their self interest. That is why the are and will always be the Great Satan.

kemicalreact:
Spare me the 9/11 BS, which country did US invade after 9/11?


The US presence in the Middle East is not any way related to 9/11.

GabrielYulaw:


They seriously threatened to bomb Pakistan into the stone age if they didn't get on board and help overthrow the Talibs. Imagine phoning the president of another country and telling him you will bomb his country to smithereens because you can and no one on earth will stop you because you control the world.

kemicalreact:
Laughable

GabrielYulaw:


Lol. I am sure the US is currently in Syria and Iraq because they want stability and prosperity in those countries. All the oil there is of course not a strong motivating factor.

GabrielYulaw:


Lol. It has never ever been about peace and prosperity. During the Arab Spring, we heard not a peep from the US when protests were taking place in Saudi Arabia and other strong monarchical countries. What were the protesters asking for? Democracy and an end to monumental corruption.

Now, the US is supposed to be the champion of democracy in the world, so why did it keep silent when it could have enabled democratic change in the Middle East? Answer- it currently has control over the monarchical governments in power there and a democratic government might not be so friendly to it.

This same democracy loving America had the democratic Iranian government replaced by the Shah cos he was about to nationalize their oil industry. The shah was hated and corrupt, but that didn't stop America from giving him their full support and throwing open their arsenal for the Shah to buy any weaponry he wanted. He bought F-14s and more.

America so loved democracy and prosperity that it provided the means for evil governments everywhere on the globe from Latin America to Africa to stay in power and murder hundreds and millions of their citizens. They supported people like Mobutu, Saddam, the South African apartheid regime and provided training and weaponry to Latin American death squads that killed raped, murdered and maimed without mercy.

There is no nobility about the US in the least. They have always been driven by money and their self interest. That is why the are and will always be the Great Satan.

ugo4u:

Stop wallowing in ignorance, as of 2014 I was very much within the military circles (Airforce) and was privy to some information esp from the contractor that procure our helicopters (Won't mention the name). The Israeli's were more than willing to give us Chinook helicopters to help with the fight against the insurgents, infact the deal was almost done and approved by Netanyahu before it was blocked by Obama citing (Leahy's Law) it's as simple as that I even saw minuted document to that effect. I still have all the memories as fresh as a morning wine. Can you post the "rules" that made it off limits to Nigeria but accessible to India, UAE, Singapore etc
Calm down and learn stop basing your argument on hearsay or sentiments.

You were in the Airforce in 2014 & probably one of the clusterfvcks that advised Jonathan to pursuit the Chinooks

Let me ask you, did you support Jonathan's advisers based on what?
Does Nigeria have any existing military treaty or defense MOU with the US in 2014?
if the answer is NO then on what grounds did you and your cohorts advise Jonathan to chase shadows? what was in it for you guys? let me guess, the few Trips to New York, estacodes & sitting allowance?

I am sure it was the same team of clusterfvcks that advised Jonathan to circumvent Leahy's ban through South Africa with militants & bling-bling pastor?
Do you expect them to know SA has been a US ally since Apartheid? We lost $10m to that stup!dity, Meanwhile, your mates in
India circumvented CAATSA with EU, Iran is trying to circumvent US JCPOA sanctions with EU also.

You are not even ashamed to admit you were part of that conspiracy.

GabrielYulaw:


These kind of fickers don't really care about death, not when there are 72 fresh virgins waiting for them. Frankly, if the Chief comes, I think ISWAP will attack. If they lose they gain a propaganda coup as being so daring as to attack a whole Chief of Army staff. If they win and capture some important personalities...

But have you asked yourself why we can have so many drones and choppers guarding someone, just one person. But you barely hear of such drones and choppers coming to help and bombing the shit of the enemy when our troops on the frontline are facing an attack.

seankafor:
oga gone are the days .

Literally, no country even USA has the power to bomb a sovereign country into ashes without global outcry and retaliation.
If it was possible, why haven't they bombed NK and Iran?

Una too dey overhype this USA sef... there are levels to the lengths they can go.

ugo4u:

Doesn't takeaway the fact that you're ignorant copy and paste all things on Wikipedia nothing changes, if you wanna leave pls do you're presence here is irritating/stinks. Had it being I hadn't seen things myself prolly one would have believed the garbage you've being typing since.
Once again you're very very ignorant, any senior Airforce officer that was incharge of procurements reads these your post they'll not only be stunned at the confidence in ignorance but also you're knack for stupidity & puerility.
You know nothing I swear, I'm not a Mr Know it all but on this particular Chinook issue, I can confidently say you know nothing.

blacKDalia:


Let me simplify my post.
1. Initial objective was to destroy al-Qaeda and remove Taliban.
2. The longer the US stayed in Afghanistan, the mission evolved /shifted into building a post Taliban Afghan state in which a road map was conceived by the international community, led by the US and Afghan leaders.
The first objective was immediately realised.
The second is implausible. The Taliban are still operating in the borders between Afghanistan and Pakistan and will resurge as the US draws down it's troop numbers.

lebuhsi:
Nigeria airforce personnel receiving training on communication equipment with COMSEC and TRANSEC capacities acquired from SAT-COM Namibia Cc:jakepor1

Toju200:
this is old news it's been long like three years ago

lebuhsi:

Yeah I just thought I should share, guys here always talk about the Nigerian military incapacity to coordinate ops through comms, its nice to see that NAF have been capacity building ground forces since '17

rka2:




[/b]An SU-25 won't make much of a difference if there is nobody on the ground to co-ordinate with unless there is a clear gap between friend & foe. You will need a hell of a lot of assets to be able to sustain helos/fighters for every engagement taking into account downtime, training etc. If you utilise all your assets at once, you will end up with nothing operational further down the line.

The Tucano will help a lot because of its advanced avionics/weapons and the fact it can loiter for over 8 hours with ISR capabilities even after expending its weapons.


https://t.guardian.ng/news/nigerian-army-destroys-iswap-camp-at-tumbun-fulani-in-northern-borno/

persius555:


I miss the NA of the 80s-90s. The Tchadians are like hyenas. They make a mockery of you when you look weak and defeated.

It's amazing how they have made the best use of the social media platform for the world to see.