EVarn:
UNITA's military capacity was actually crushed.

AskiaHarem:


Is that an Islamic terrorist group with connections around the world or just some frustrated ragtags?

EVarn:
UNITA's military capacity was actually crushed.

EVarn:
Quite more sophisticated than BH/ISWAP and Al-baghdadi's ISIS put together. At it's prime, it was a conventional military force fully backed and armed by the US, Israel, South Africa, and many neighboring African countries.

Odunayaw:
And at that prime was unmatched by anything Angola had (Man & Support). Ugly history nonetheless.

If the dominoes hadn't fallen for UNITA's backers there wouldn't have been any 'crushing'.

bidex111:
NA soldier with a British Sterling L2A3 (Mark 4) submachine gun

Covert1:

Kids know nothing come here and be ranting rubbish. If Boko haram/ISWAP was a traditional conventional/guerrilla force like we've seen with most other rebel groups it would have since been crushed too by the Nigerian Army that has the pedigree of destroying or keeping the peace between such state sponsored rebel armies from the Congo in the 60's to the Biafran Army, the Sierra Leonean Army and its associated insurgent groups, Liberia's Charles Taylor's Army to other sundry rebel organizations like UNITA. The difference here is the ideology. In ISWAP/BHT we have islamafacists terrorists who come to die not necessarily to win the war but to inflict as much pain as possible on the superior military power it fights. UNITA in itself was crushed by Angola with support from many countries like Cuba and Nigeria.

Nigeria especially stood out in the liberation struggle of many African states with material and financial support including in some cases direct clandestine military support by way of military advisers and weapons. So pls when attempting to bash Nigeria stop looking in the wrong places. The Nigerian Military today is better, is still very powerful, highly capable and maintains the necessary deterrence capabilities against contemporary african states including Angola.

EVarn:
UNITA's military capacity was actually crushed.

komekn:


To say something is better and or superior quality there is a need for comparison you do not stand in isolation and determine superiority.

So considering our GDP, size and population who are you comparing Nigeria too Togo or Ghana

jln115:
They actually did the crushing........Well until they lost all their foreign backing!

EVarn:
It was mostly a back and forth thing, though UNITA has the upper hand in terms of territorial possession for a long time. However, the MPLA was in control of the nation's economy and oil wealth throughout the period.

bidexiii:
German Luna X 2000 UAV deployed around Ansongo #Mali
#MINUSMA #Bundeswehr .

keep2silent:
Why Angola? Twas former favourite war talk in Nigerian barracks, Angola war was feared more than Liberia. UNITA got huge American help. Angola got foreign help. Nigerian army too gets huge MJNTF help from thousands of Chad, Niger, Cameroon soldiers, SF, fighting deep inside Nigerian towns. All Cuban military withdrew from Angola 1991, but war ended 2002 when Angolan army new offensive crushed UNITA militarily.

Motorized Infantry is the big difference, huge offensive capability of Angolan Army Infantry guns, missiles armed 1,500 AFV IFV that I wish for Nigerian Army Super Camp strategy to flood whole North East, crush BHT, ISWAP much faster than they recruit.
No need argue long stories of the war, face its final conclusion, Cambridge University scholars publication accurately says Angolan army defeated UNITA rebels militarily in 2002. We wish NA crush BHT, as UNITA was crushed. Why argue?

komekn:


I stopped contributing on this particular thread until i can actually do something positive otherwise i am just making noise.

However, seeing this picture takes me back many many many years ago to my old cadet regiment in the UK ,the sten gun is relic from WW2 that's how old it is, it was one of my first guns i was introduced too. The range is effectively about 100 meters even within that its not great it has very little precision beyond that , considering the lightweight 9mm round it carries.

Shocking is not the right word i am shocked by many things but to give this too combatants i am lost for words.

seankafor:
so u carry ur doublesstandard from super eagles thread to this place too?
When it comes to steady power supply and insecurity and the rest, u no go remember say naija population and these small countries ain't the same..
But when it comes to military wise..u now bring your population size bullshiits..

Militarily, Togo and ghana combined cant match Nigeria..sue me to court.

U better go back to ur isolation and never return

keep2silent:
Why Angola? Twas former favourite war talk in Nigerian barracks, Angola war was feared more than Liberia. UNITA got huge American help. Angola got foreign help. Nigerian army too gets huge MJNTF help from thousands of Chad, Niger, Cameroon soldiers, SF, fighting deep inside Nigerian towns. All Cuban military withdrew from Angola 1991, but war ended 2002 when Angolan army new offensive crushed UNITA militarily.

Motorized Infantry is the big difference, huge offensive capability of Angolan Army Infantry guns, missiles armed 1,500 AFV IFV that I wish for Nigerian Army Super Camp strategy to flood whole North East, crush BHT, ISWAP much faster than they recruit.
No need argue long stories of the war, face its final conclusion, Cambridge University scholars publication accurately says Angolan army defeated UNITA rebels militarily in 2002. We wish NA crush BHT, as UNITA was crushed. Why argue?

Odunayaw:
Forgive people like us that loves history.

That said, I agree that the war effort should be mobile( not sacrificing armor). More perplexing is how our SF are employed. Reading about the ingenuity of Rhodesian/SADF SF leaves me scratching my head over how the Brass uses them

nemesis8u:
INS Tarkash visit to Lagos

seankafor:
has the Nigerian navy ships had any sea shore combat experience ?

seankafor:
has the Nigerian navy ships had any sea shore combat experience ?

EVarn:
Yes, in 1967 during the Biafran war, the Nigerian Navy shocked Colonel Ojukwu when NNS Nigeria and NNS Ogoja cannoned Biafran installations in Bonny and in a spectacular amphibious landing, took over the oil fields in the area. Biafra's BNS Ibadan was also grounded and destroyed while engaging NNS Ogoja off the Bonny coast.

Odunayaw:
It'd not be too hard to produce a pic of the famed SAS wielding one in this fading decade

seankafor:
thanks for clarification.

That's donkey years thoor

Odunayaw:
Forgive people like us that loves history.

That said, I agree that the war effort should be mobile( not sacrificing armor). More perplexing is how our SF are employed. Reading about the ingenuity of Rhodesian/SADF SF leaves me scratching my head over how the Brass uses them

seankafor:
has the Nigerian navy ships had any seashore combat experience

Covert1:


ISWAP/BHT is not UNITA. The former employs asymmetric means as a strategy of remaining relevant in a war it cannot win - The Nigerian Army is not going anywhere for these are our lands. The UNITA you mentioned fell apart with the opportune death of its leader Jonas Savimbi who was at the wrong place at the wrong time and not any textbook classical military defeat as you insinuate. Your accounts here are all mismatch not true history. The type of kinetic means of warfare you advocate against ISWAP/BHT is not possible as they are not a dug in conventional army with positions to engage. This is CT/COIN warfare with an unseen enemy willing to die for "God". Kapish.

And Nigeria pays for the MNJTF whose rules of engagement allows for cross border operations of which Nigeria bears the bulk of combat responsibility.