The Nigerian army Mechanized Infantry is finnally living up to its name. More IFV's en-route. Nigeria's quest to repair two decades of neglect is firing on all cylinders.
No less than three foreign militaries are covertly understudying the Nigerian military’s exploits in COIN operations. The United States, a traditional admirer of the Nigerian military as far as land operations is concerned, Britain and Belarus.
They are paying particular attention to how the Nigerian military cut Boko Haram’s supply line and isolated the insurgents. Admirers of the tactics are said to have described such as unbelievable even by the standards of those that have been much longer involved in COIN warfare
Although insurgents may never be able to mount and sustain any major operations again, it media should sensitive Nigerians that terrorism is a many sided warfare. You don’t finish it at a go. Soft targets will be the next port of call for insurgents to stay relevant.
We have come a looong way. The Nigerian military had been left without weapons to fight and troops sent to war front were easily vulnerable to being savaged by Boko Haram insurgents. Nigerians saw their own troops running away from battle.
Only this stellar performance would cure the psychological trauma of such a disaster. Now the army is facing another battle against the Senate and House of Reps. The military should be isolated from budgetary volatility in terms of a credible, deterrent force.
In the aftermath of two insurgencies within a decade aside from rising criminality, it ia evident that neither democracy nor development is feasible without an informed, lethal military. The Senates decision to starve the army of funds borders on criminal negligence.
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