A statement issued by Major Gen. Nasir Muazu on behalf of the Nigerian army yesterday said 'Boko Haram can no longer face the Army on any and all fronts'. This comes on the heels of reports of the insurgents raiding border villages and towns on motorbikes having a free for all. How long exactly will it take the 'lofty' military and 'all knowing' politicians to realise frontal attack is not an opinion to eradicating an enemy that doesn't exist? An enemy that wears masks, T-shirt and jean to do battle for 2 days in a week then get rid of the masks to become, spies and ordinary citizens for the other 5 days. and enemy that terrorizes women and kids into becoming suicide bombers, an enemy that is everywhere and yet nowhere. No wonder we've gotten nowhere near eradicating the bloody plague called Book Haram and the world's one super power laughs at us.
For those ignorant of what real military power and strategy is let me give you an idea using the United States military that has fought and won more wars than any other.
The USA military has a 5 arm structure - Navy, Air force, Army, Marine and Special Forces . Each has the air, land and sea abilities of effectively warring on any country on earth but combined and at full streght they can wipe out a lesser super power like Russia in 3 days flat. When faced with gorilla or unconventional warfare (like Book Haram and ISIS) they adapt fast using the super tough elite Special force and Marine commandos with strategic air support. The best example I can give here is the the Vietnam war five decades ago where in response to the Vietcong battle rat strategy (troops fighting from vast underground tunnels with suface opening in odd places) created the 'rat commandos' to go into those tunnels and do battle. The sophisticated special forces in their pitch black uniform are night battle specialists where used in Panama and Iraq conquering vast territories even before the Army came into the show.

With the loots of corrupt politicians alone like Abacus ($5 bn) Nigeria can buy sophisticated arms and the services of military trainers and strategists form any of the other super powers or even a rebel US expert or a contractor and then the army would definitely know what to do to end insurgency in this country.
The answer to Book Haram is not amnesty or solders with big guns running all over the place and shooting people by mistake, it is commandos planted in villagers as farmers, traders and lonely groups of travelers in veils.
I say fighting tit for tat is the only way to rid us of this terror.

Revolution is the key.



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Make your headline this way:

Nigeria Armed forces vs Boko Haram & Politicians. It's not a three way battle but two against one.

That being said, the armed forces should now plan their battle strategy effectively.

I de come

pacino26:
Make your headline this way:

Nigeria Armed forces vs Boko Haram & Politicians. It's not a three way battle but two against one.

That being said, the armed forces should now plan their battle strategy effectively.

I de come

I don't think so. politics is also in the show down

Our politicians should also start giving the military what they need both in terms of sophisticated weapons and room to the needed work. When a man, even a general is distracted by politics and the government then the work is not done right, that's if it's the right guy in the seat and not a political choice.
But wait everyone talks about the Army what of the air force? How many new attack aircraft have we?
The gun touting Afghanistans had a saying in the days that country was invaded by the USSR - 'we are not afraid of the Russians but we are terrified of their helicopters' I mean Afghanistan, a country where every one upward of 14 years has an assault rifle with a rocket luncher not too far away, is scared of Russian attack helicopters!
The army has to be mobile to get anywhere and are always spied coming so the enemy has time to act but the air force using attack aircraft that swoop out of the sky without warning in wide open flat lands like the north has will hurt Boko Haram worse than anything the army can do. The politicians and military generals would know this if they did their homework and paid strategy more attention.

Eze2000:

I don't think so. politics is also in the show down

There are principles, strategies adopted in battle but politics mar such plans. Anyway.....