sweetgala:


Africa is burning and if Nigeria wants to realize it's potential we can't close out eyes to this sad reality, Mugabe and Biya would be dead in less than 10 years probably less and that can spell a lot of trouble and instability for Africa, Lybia continues to implode and Egypt are yet to stabilize.

Kenya would have a tough time steming their new found terrorist friends, we need those 200,000 force, it does not need to be a standing force, we can operate a Army reseve system, or something similar to US where soldiers can do tour missions.

idupaul:


So you think 200k men to defend a nation of 180 million is too much . For urgent information was the numerical strength of the Army after the civil war before Obasanjo scaled them down to 100. .please show me any nation above a 100 millions that has less fighting men that Nigeria

sweetgala:


Some people have forgotten that Cameroon have a dictator facilitated and imposed by US and France, there are also the french influence in Chad, north of that is the Mali and Kanye situation which is not scaling down anything.

Lybian small arms are flowing into Chad at an alarming rate and that would cause so much trouble in the future for a secular country which has grand African desires.

ZombieNation:
Foolishness of the highest order.

In a time most of the developed nations are scaling down on the numerical strength of their military in preference of a lean mean killing machine, this dunce thinks modern warfare is down to the number of potential bullet catchers.

This move is geared towards absolviing more of his illiterate bokos into the army which he intends to send to their graves fighting jihad for Saudi Arabia.

Let the nonsense continue under the dullard

ZombieNation:
Foolishness of the highest order.

In a time most of the developed nations are scaling down on the numerical strength of their military in preference of a lean mean killing machine, this dunce thinks modern warfare is down to the number of potential bullet catchers.

This move is geared towards absolviing more of his illiterate bokos into the army which he intends to send to their graves fighting jihad for Saudi Arabia.

Let the nonsense continue under the dullard

ZombieNation:


China, US and Russia are scaling down on the numerical strength of their military and are turning their military over to high end technology.


An SU-27 air to ground fighter jet will make mince meat of a whole division.

A 21yr old USAF drone pilot will take out any large gathering of infantry with a single push of a button in any part of the world from a comfy base in Nevada after which he will watch it on CNN with his buddies over a beer.

They are not strengthening the army but absolviing their boko lunatics into it which they intend to unleash on civilians .

This is foolishness of the highest order.

tonychristopher:
The problem I have with Nigeria is lack of focus and priority

Why increase army
Why not increase education,infrastructure etc

1000 intelligent corps will defeat 200k army battalion

History proved it in
Sparta wars
Isreali Arab wars
Biafrans war



The key thing is intelligence, education

Quality is better than quantity


.oh bubu

EternalTruths:


You and ibnsultaan are both military illiterate.

Do Switzerland have a standing military.? No

Why is it that no nation threatens/threatened her including Hitler Germany.? Compulsory military training

You don't need a large army to defend a nation.

Give all your citizens military training and when the need to go to war arises, you call them to defend the nation.

So tell your dull President to make military weapons training for NYSC compulsory so that they won't be need to maintain a large army and if war arises, we can raise a large army to win the war within few weeks after which everyone goes back to his normal life. >

billyG:

Given miltary training to everybody so that everybody,unemployed corpers can get a gun &start Robbing,murdering, & kidnapping evrything that moves abi,D reason Y we still hav little peace is that majority has never touch a gun b4 not 2 talk of having & using it.U b confirm dullard!

billyG:

Do Drone has pilot?do u know d strenght of US,china,Russian Army even if they scale down,do u know d Boost a large army gives to d economy of those kun3,military personnel are heavy spenders,sellers,contractors,manufacturers of APC,guns,warplanes,warships,bombs,beers,wines,grocery,sports equipments benefits,miltary has schools,hospitals which also employed teachers,medics,nurses,build Bridges,roads ther4 employ engineers,architects infact d military is a community inside a larger community,just reduce USA defence budget to 10% & See how US economy will crash.
stop this foolish!thinking Scale down d Military & see Armed Robbers,Militants,Terrorists,fill in d Gap.

tonychristopher:
The problem I have with Nigeria is lack of focus and priority

Why increase army
Why not increase education,infrastructure etc

1000 intelligent corps will defeat 200k army battalion

History proved it in
Sparta wars
Isreali Arab wars
Biafrans war

The key thing is intelligence, education

Quality is better than quantity

.oh bubu

ZombieNation:


Is the army waging war on its citizens?

The US population is 350 million but they are scaling down on their army

China has come out to state that it will reduce its military force of 3 million to a million. This is China with over 1.5bn people

What logic other than to kill and intimidate your own citizenry warrants this foolishness?

With Nigeria heading for serious recession and bankruptcy how does the dullard hope to maintain such large force of men during peacetime?


The army is not designed for civilian policing but for existential and external threats.

Review our constitution and corporate unity since all conflicts in Nigeria stem from that weak document.

Nigeria's civil unrest are first and foremost politically induced and as such only sincere dialogue and not brute force can solve it.

They want full sharia in the north, I say let them have it.

The Niger Delta wants full resource control, then why not? After all its their oil

The Biafrans want a return to true republic. You hate them and are quick to attack then in your north. Grant them their autonomy and see if they will venture into your sharia enclave

tonychristopher:



This is bunkum

xxgig:


While I agree with you on some issues, I'll like you to do the maths. China with all its technological advancement had a 3million strength army for a population of 1.5billion. You can not leave your bad roof un amended at the peak of rainy season just because you are already saving to build a modern house

ZombieNation:
Foolishness of the highest order.

In a time most of the developed nations are scaling down on the numerical strength of their military in preference of a lean mean killing machine, this dunce thinks modern warfare is down to the number of potential bullet catchers.

This move is geared towards absolviing more of his illiterate bokos into the army which he intends to send to their graves fighting jihad for Saudi Arabia.

Let the nonsense continue under the dullard

ZombieNation:


Go and educate yourself before you quote me


Zombie

ZombieNation:


China, US and Russia are scaling down on the numerical strength of their military and are turning their military over to high end technology.


An SU-27 air to ground fighter jet will make mince meat of a whole division.

A 21yr old USAF drone pilot will take out any large gathering of infantry with a single push of a button in any part of the world from a comfy base in Nevada after which he will watch it on CNN with his buddies over a beer.

They are not strengthening the army but absolviing their boko lunatics into it which they intend to unleash on civilians .

This is foolishness of the highest order.

sweetgala:


Even if China reduce their army to 1.5 million that is still 10% of their population, our armed forces is not even enough sing any mathematical ratio to our lansspace or population

We have one soldier for every 1500 persons

ZombieNation:


Go and educate yourself before you quote me


Zombie

sweetgala:


Leave the illiterates , we are bodered on three fronts with countries who are unstable politically and are at odds with us in principle.

We have an expansive borderline if war breaks out with Cameroon tomorrow it would not be funny

Penisinpenisout:


Comparing first world country with third world country
You're not even smart, russia has 2million army, just in reserve alone
China has 510,000 in reserve, the united states has over 800,000 just in reserve and you are crying because of 150,000?

And when Russian, us and china tell you they are scaling down their armed forces, you'd believe them? Once a slave always a slave.

You're just pathetic

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_military_and_paramilitary_personnel

Fourwinds:
answer dat question...USA is over 200 million in population. .do u think deir army size is less than a million in strenght.

Blueray:


You should rather educate yourself before you mislead others with your cheap access to the Internet. Your America gods could not do the job in Iraq with a button as you want all to believe. With all their tech ISIS is still in operation. What you don,t know don't comment on. ITK. It is not your father's sorry ass that will be used to fund the expansion. And your equipment must also be matched by requisite manpower idiot. Half baked educationists always comparing Nigeria with America. Check out the statistics between these two countries and see why we are proud to be Nigerians. For a start, one state i.e. Texas is as large as Nigeria and they have 50 Buffon. America this America that.

ZombieNation:


Are you US?

Do you have any global reach or interest to protect?

LAPD which is financed by the Los Ageles county of California has an annual budget of $15bn .

That is more money Nigeria will see from oil in 2015.

Priotize zombie