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War With Cameroon Imminent. by Nobody: 1:47am On Jul 25, 2017
Three part analysis.


Nigeria’s Chief of Army staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai and Nigeria’s Chief of Air staff Abubakar Sadique this week gave their theatre commanders of Operation Lafiya Role, a 40 Day ultimatum to capture Abubakar Shey-coward, leader of the Boko Haram Jihadi group.

According to sources, the Nigerian military have been directed to use all the arsenal at their disposal to find and capture Abubakar Shekau dead or alive, so as to free up resources to protect Nigeria’s territory from a possible potential “unnamed”aggression.

“The general public is please requested to also assist and volunteer information that would lead to the accomplishment of this task.”..
The urgency of this development may not be unconnected to the fact that in the pats several months there have been a spike in cross border skirmishes between Nigerian and Cameroonian security personnel at the border region between both countries. These incidents largely go unreported.
Tensions however spiked to unprecedented level when in May 2017, the most powerful warship of the Cameroonian Navy, CNS Dipika , caught the Nigeria Navy unawares by showing up at the Nigerian Navy Eastern Naval Command in Calabar, where she events docked.

The fact that the Cameroonian government did not formally request permission to sail into Nigerian waters is troubling. What is more troubling however is that the ship sailed hundreds of miles into Nigerian waters undetected and unchallenged until it showed up smack right at the Eastern Command, where she eventually docked.

A month later in June, 97 Nigerians wer killed by Cameroonian Gendarmes in Bakassi because they could not afford a N100,000 levy on each fishing boat. As alarming as it might be, this is not without precedent.

In December 2015, Cameroonian troops crossed the border into znigeria, killed 150 villagers, burned their huts and forced them to flee.

Months before that Chadian troops and hundreds of armed vehicles crossed into Nigeria without authorization from the Nigerian government into several villages in Borno, using the Boko Haram insurgency as a cloak. Just last week Nigeria’s petroleum minister said he expects a discovery soon in the Lake Chad Basin, making border clashes between Nigeria and Chad nearly inevitable in the northeastern part of Nigeria that joins CHAF, Cameroon and Niger.

In November 2015, Cameroonian soldiers crossed into Nigerian territory and killed 150 Nigerian civilians, stole cattle and razed entire villages. This coming days after the Nigerian government refused requests from Cameroon and Chad to evacuAte civilians and create a no go zone along the border is indicative of Cameroons flagrant disregard of Nigeria’s territorial sovereignty.

In January 2016, emboldened by Nigeria’s lack of response, Cameroonian troops again crossed into Nigerian territory in pursuit of Boko Haram and shot and killed 40 Nigerian civilians.

Distracted by the Boko Haram insurgency, Nigeria had been unable or unwilling to take punitive actions against cross border attacks on Nigerian soil by hostile state actors. But all that is about to change. The recapture of hitherto lost territory to Boko Haram and the degradation of the group’s fighting capacity is freeing up resources to address these hostile acts by the Franco alliance that is technically akin to a declaration of war.

Having seen these developments in recent years it is in my personal opinion that war between Nigeria and Cameroon and Chad is inevitable, and Nigeria has been secretly preparing for such an encounter. It is no more a matter of “IF” but “WHEN”. A war with Cameroon will almost certainly see Chad and Niger come to the aid of Cameroon, hence there is no escaping it, no wishing it away..a war betwern Nigeria and a Franco military alliance is imminent.

It should be noted that in the event of hostilities between Nigeria and the Franco alliance, there will be no Anglophone support or coalition. It should be noted that besides Nigeria there is no Anglophone member in ECOWAS with a significant military capability to proffer any form of assistance to Nigeria. Nigeria is the only Anglophone country in Africa encircled in its entirety by French speaking countries. Nigeria will go it alone.

With this innevtable event in kind let us examine the military state of play West Africa..

NIGERIA

Despite the Boko Haram insurgency, Nigeria remains the preeminent military power in West Africa. The Nigerian armed forces is an all volunteer mostly professional fighting force and fields large numbers of relatively advanced weapons platforms, and have some of the most combat experience of any sub-sahara African army

Nigeria’s greatest strenght and advantage is in manpower. With an active duty force of 200,000 men and a reserve force of 32,000 men, the Nigerian Army is larger than the combined armies of Chad, Cameroon Niger and half ECOWAS combined.

Before the advent of urban guerrilla counter insurgency groups like Boko Haram the Nigerian army was doctrine and designed to fight multiple regional armies like Chad and Cameroon simultaneously, relying on sheer mass of numbers, lots of mechanized amoured units and unmatched artillery power.

Of course, virtually no one anticipated an assymetric war with Boko Haram. But Nigeria’s war with Boko Haram has been a much smaller operation. The Nigerian Army has used barely a quarter of the army along with a roughly comparable fraction of the air force during combat operations and a very small fraction of its Navy. No more than 15,000 have been deployed to the North East against Boko Haram at a time. Also Nigeria’s vast and venerable artilleries are basically useless against an enemy with no defined base of operation besides civilian neighbourhoods.

This is hardly beyond the capacity of a total of 200,000 active duty troops and 32,000 reservists and 180,000 paramilitary to go to war against the Franco alliance.

Against Boko Haram, the Nigerian Army has had to employ extensively the use of special forces and intelligence assets such as satellites, unmanned aerial vehicles to fight. For ground assaults Nigeria has had to rely on a 6,000 combined crack troops from from the 72 Mobile Strike Force, Air Force Special Forces Regiment and Navy SBS Commandos, for multiple raids.

The real reason for Nigeria’s slow pace against the Boko Haram insurgency are two folds.

One, unlike in the creeks of the Niger Delta the Nigerian Army doesn’t really know where most Boko Haram are located most of the times.

Two, until late 2012 Nigeria’s action against the BH group has more of a police action than a real military campaign. Nigeria has not mobilized fully for war against Boko Haram, however in the event of an invasion of Calabar or Borno by external forces, then Nigeria will likel mobilize for full scale war.

……to be continued.

https://defensenigeria./2017/07/25/war-is-imminemt-nigerias-military-chiefs-gives-theater-army-and-air-force-commanders-ultimatum-to-capture-shekau/
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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by Beyhiodie(m): 2:00am On Jul 25, 2017
End time things

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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by DickDastardly2(m): 2:06am On Jul 25, 2017
Obasanjo gave monkey cameroun that cup of water. He should be forced to retrieve it angry sad

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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by Blue3k(m): 2:54am On Jul 25, 2017
Interesting

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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by Odunayaw(m): 3:08am On Jul 25, 2017
I advice you to stop this warmongering hubby you are picking up. Shalom!

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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by mormonslayer: 3:11am On Jul 25, 2017
War just dey hungry some people these days. angry
Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by seunmsg(m): 4:48am On Jul 25, 2017
DickDastardly2:
Obasanjo gave monkey cameroun that cup of water. He should be forced to retrieve it angry sad

The international court of Justice gave away Bakassi to Cameroon and not Obasanjo. Obasanjo merely implemented the judgement of the court.

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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by Nobody: 5:08am On Jul 25, 2017
Mumu Nigeria will not fight any war with Cameroon. Cameroon will continue their games and nothing will happen
Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by mrvitalis(m): 6:27am On Jul 25, 2017
Honestly we need this enemy to unify Nigeria and grow us

A group of people can never be united unless they have a common enemy if not they hatred for the enemy withing will grow stronger it's a theory I have come to understand for years and that's what the world powers use focus the hate outside on Islam ,Arabs ,China ,Russia ,America ,Western Europe , Jews ,Christians ,Asians as the case may be

Conflict is a key element of development African nations are too friendly to each other to develop

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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by cooljude(m): 7:19am On Jul 25, 2017
seunmsg:


The international court of Justice gave away Bakassi to Cameroon and not Obasanjo. Obasanjo merely implemented the judgement of the court.

Nigeria constitution supersedes that court ruling, same as our territorial integrity. This are cases of the court making pronouncement and countries telling them to Fvck off.
Eg. Cambodia vs Thailand. China vs Virtually all SE Asia countries, India vs Pakistan, USA vs Canada, Argentina vs England, their are so many examples.

Why did Nigeria submit a territory it owned and the aborigines chose to remain Nigeria. No country ever gives away it's land for free.

I think Nigeria is a weakling and we like bluffing about our military capabilities and our political leaders are local champions who knows next to nothing about international diplomacy.

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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by Ojiofor: 8:33am On Jul 25, 2017
Nigeria is a sitting duck giant of Africa who only pull trigger at her own citizens.
Even if Cameroon over ran Calabar today, Brutai won't do nothing but will be at alert to see if IPOB will take advantage of the situation.

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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by freshest4live: 8:44am On Jul 25, 2017
You may be right, there have been some closed door meetings between Osibanjo, Buratai and some important Army Generals lately and just recently there was an impromptu reshuffling of the military across the nation.
Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by theSpark(m): 9:05am On Jul 25, 2017
Well in a way I'm happy that Anglo phone Cameroon have seen the consequences of their actions. When a referendum was held in the 1960s, the northern part chose to stay with Nigeria while the southern part decided to go with Cameroon. I believe after their maltreatment they've learnt their lesson.

In any war with Cameroon they will be valuable assets. I don't see how Nigeria will be defeated by Cameroon, we may receive a strong first beating but the response will leave Cameroon a wasteland. Besides if they try it Nigeria should annex the Anglo phone Cameroon back.

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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by naijagobetter(m): 9:45am On Jul 25, 2017
[quote author=iSlayer2 post=58800987]Mumu Nigeria will not fight any war with Cameroon. Cameroon will continue their games and nothing will happen[/quote) Due to the kind of self centered, corrupt, semi illitrate, devilish and unpatriotic people we have as leaders.

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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by kettykin: 9:56am On Jul 25, 2017
i think Nigeria needs to avoid war by all means now , when cameroon took bakassi Nigeria never went to war.

All all cameroon needs to do is to invite an arm of IPOB members and throw a lavish reception for them in Yaounde with a live press conference and a determination to support their Objectives , before it dawns on Nigeria they kind of change the embarked on by giving chinakwe's Dog power.

Nigeria is gradully surrounding itself with very powerful enemies , from Iran , Turkey Morroco , Israel now to cameroon infact it seems Nigeria's hour of crucifixion is around the corner and all it takes is for its former friend to betray it by open support to IPOB allowing IPOB to build a military base , air base and training grounds for a lot of avowed ipob members to train themselves.

so my advice to Nigeria is dont start a fire that will consume you. Francophone countries will finish Nigeria in 6 days.

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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by seunmsg(m): 10:29am On Jul 25, 2017
cooljude:


Nigeria constitution supersedes that court ruling, same as our territorial integrity. This are cases of the court making pronouncement and countries telling them to Fvck off.
Eg. Cambodia vs Thailand. China vs Virtually all SE Asia countries, India vs Pakistan, USA vs Canada, Argentina vs England, their are so many examples.

Why did Nigeria submit a territory it owned and the aborigines chose to remain Nigeria. No country ever gives away it's land for free.

I think Nigeria is a weakling and we like bluffing about our military capabilities and our political leaders are local champions who knows next to nothing about international diplomacy.

It is not as easy as you are making it appear. France had vested interest in the disputed Bakassi peninsula and was willing to go to war if Nigeria refused to obey the judgement. We obviously cannot face France in any full blown war considering the fact that we had no super military power behind us. Again, Cameroon and France would attract far more support and sympathy because they would have been fighting a legitimate war while Nigeria will be seen as the aggressor that is trying to grab what it lost legally at the international court.

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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by lovat(m): 11:20am On Jul 25, 2017
mrvitalis:
Honestly we need this enemy to unify Nigeria and grow us

A group of people can never be united unless they have a common enemy if not they hatred for the enemy withing will grow stronger it's a theory I have come to understand for years and that's what the world powers use focus the hate outside on Islam ,Arabs ,China ,Russia ,America ,Western Europe , Jews ,Christians ,Asians as the case may be

Conflict is a key element of development African nations are too friendly to each other to develop
May you be the victim of the conflict that will unite Nigeria

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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by cutievik: 11:30am On Jul 25, 2017
SSBN have been following ur threads keenly just as I followed beegeagle blog amongst others, we have so much in common and I d love to interact with you on how we can wake up our sleeping gaints via adequate publicity, can u a new mail and get I across to me for discussions?? I would be hoping to hear from u soon. One love.
Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by cutievik: 11:32am On Jul 25, 2017
seunmsg:


It is not as easy as you are making it appear. France had vested interest in the disputed Bakassi peninsula and was willing to go to war if Nigeria refused to obey the judgement. We obviously cannot face France in any full blown war considering the fact that we had no super military power behind us. Again, Cameroon and France would attract far more support and sympathy because they would have been fighting a legitimate war while Nigeria will be seen as the aggressor that is trying to grab what it lost legally at the international court.

You are smart... Bro

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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by Nobody: 12:02pm On Jul 25, 2017
cutievik:
SSBN have been following ur threads keenly just as I followed beegeagle blog amongst others, we have so much in common and I d love to interact with you on how we can wake up our sleeping gaints via adequate publicity, can u a new mail and get I across to me for discussions?? I would be hoping to hear from u soon. One love.

battysummer@gmail.com
Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by richidinho(m): 12:09pm On Jul 25, 2017
AND the dullard is rotting away in far London

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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by paschu: 12:16pm On Jul 25, 2017
I think Nigeria's ceding of Bakassi to Cameroon was God's component legal signature on the material legal framework for the legal restoration of Biafra.

cooljude:


Nigeria constitution supersedes that court ruling, same as our territorial integrity. This are cases of the court making pronouncement and countries telling them to Fvck off.
Eg. Cambodia vs Thailand. China vs Virtually all SE Asia countries, India vs Pakistan, USA vs Canada, Argentina vs England, their are so many examples.

Why did Nigeria submit a territory it owned and the aborigines chose to remain Nigeria. No country ever gives away it's land for free.

I think Nigeria is a weakling and we like bluffing about our military capabilities and our political leaders are local champions who knows next to nothing about international diplomacy.
Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by freshest4live: 12:19pm On Jul 25, 2017
paschu:
I think Nigeria's ceding of Bakassi to Cameroon was God's component legal signature on the material legal framework for the legal restoration of Biafra.

Not everything is about Biafra for Pete's sake.

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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by bubbllie(m): 12:24pm On Jul 25, 2017
The absence of war does not necessarily mean the presence of peace...
Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by paschu: 12:28pm On Jul 25, 2017
Of course you won't understand. But you are entitled to your opinion though.

freshest4live:

Not everything is about Biafra for Pete's sake.

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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by Nobody: 6:14pm On Jul 25, 2017
....continuation

CHAD

The Chadian armed forces is reputed to be amongst the most revered in Africa, not necessarily because of its size and weapons, but rather its exploits. Though small and lacking in resources it is a well organised fighting force. Modelled after the French Foreign Legion, the reputation of Chadian soldiers, many of which have been accused of war crimes,are well founded.

The Chadian army is fearless. They invaded the northern Nigerian State of Borno and held 12 villages for days before they were chased out and pursued 12 miles into the Chadian capital N'djamena by the Nigerian army. You see, the fact that they were gonna get their asses whooped by the Nigerian army didn't stop them from trying, and they will try again.

The exploits of these desert warriors were so legendary the lexicon "Toyota War" was coined after them, when shortly after getting whooped by the Nigerian Army for their military adventurism into Nigeria, the Chadians embarked on another insane military adventure, this time with Libya in 1987. Chad's war with Libya in itself is a stuff of military legend.

In the Chad-Libya war , Libya's leader Muammer Ghadafi sent an expeditionary force of 9,000 soldiers, 300 tanks, dozens of multiple launch rocket systems, some illegally outfitted with thermobaric warheads and hundreds of artillery pieces. Like that was not enough, the Libyans deployed 12 Mil Mi-24 helicopter gunships and over 60 combat aircrafts, majority of them Soviet built MiGs.
But you gotta give it to the Chadians, these guys are either stark raving suicidal, or incredibly fearless.

The Chadian answer to Libya's mind bending firepower was just 9,000 soldie.....err desert warriors and 400 Toyota pickup trucks and MILAN anti-tank missiles. Yes. TOYOTA FUCKUP TRUCKS. No air power, no tanks, no amoured vehicles, no anti aircraft guns and no artillery.

How the Chadians pull this off is a stuff of military legend. The Chadians might be insanely brave but they are not delusional. They will be masacred taking on Libya's forces head on. Instead they avoided a frontal assault, taking advantage of their mobility they sorrounded the Libyan positions and unleashed ground troops, ( try shooting a foot soldier yards from you with a tank ). It was over in hours. Over 700 Libyans were killed and 150 tanks destroyed. The Chadians lost only 50 soldiers.

Stunned by the defeat, Ghadafi reacted by ordering the bombing of the Chadian town of Arada. This did not go down well with France, who retaliated by launching airstrikes on Libya's radar systems, destroying it completely. Something Nigeria should take note of. France will protect its protege regardless who attacked first.

For a desperately poor tiny landlocked country, the Chadians have been involved militarily in more countries in Africa than any other.The Chadian army have been involved in the Central African Republic. They helped overthrow the Central African Republic's President after relaying the position of South African troops protecting the president to anti government rebels,leading to SADC troops protecting the President being ambushed with the loss of 13 South African soldiers.

They have been accused of stocking sectarian strife in the CAR by supporting Muslim militias against Christian fighters. In one instance a Chadian military convoy arrived in a crowded market place in Bangui and opened fire on the population without any provocation. As panic stricken people fled in all directions the soldiers continued firing indiscriminately, murdering 30 civilians and injuring hundreds.

With these gross human rights violation from a dictatorship, one would thing that the United States, the world's oldest constitutional democracy will work with Nigeria, the world's fourth largest democracy to promote democratic governance and place punitive economic sanctions against the 30 year dictatorship...

The reverse is the case. Instead the United States, not comfortable with Nigeria's dominant status in West Africa, its role in making ECOWAS the most democratic region of Africa,its refusal to cite AFRICOM military command HQ close to the country with the richest energy reserve and not happy with its anti same sex marriage legislation- have ceased on every opportunity to bring the regional hegemon to its knees.

At the height of the Boko Haram insurgency, the United States banned the sale of weapons to the Nigerian Army over human rights violation, torpedoed an Israeli arms deal with Nigeria, put a kiposh on a Pakistani arms deal with Nigeria and stopped the import of Nigerian crude.
At the same time the United States offered military and financial assistance to Chad, the country with the longest serving dictatorship, even without the Chadians asking. Such hypocrisy have been engineered by the French.

When Nigeria "stubornly" forgot the CIA script of a Nigeria breakup in 2015, the United States hoped Nigeria will not forget the script in its presidential elections. So confident was the Obama administration that this time Nigeria will follow the script, the U.S sent a detachment of 300 Marines to Ghana on the eve of Nigeria's 2015 presidential election, ready to go in and evacuate American and French citizens when the expected post election violence ensues.

Again Nigeria did not read or stubornly refused to read the script. America's next move was to build a surveillance facility in N'djamena, the capital of Chad.
The increased U.S interest in Chad follows on the heels of a push by France, Chads colonial overlord and America's current proxy in West Africa to beef up its military footprint West Africa.

West Africa, Anglo-dominated region and home to the worlds 9th largest proven oil reserve of a staggering 42 billion barres of crude seems like the natural spot for the U.S AFRICOM Command, the only problem was that there is a country whose economic, political and military power and cultural influence encompasses across a chain of 16 countries stretching from east to west.
Chads army has no ability to face the kind of military firepower a fully mobilized Nigerian military can muster. Against this backdrop the United States and France for the past couple of years ignored Chads appalling human rights record and poured a huge amount of money, time and effort into making Chad the preeminent military power in West Africa.

Nigeria, a black country with more people than Britannia and France combined and with a strong sense of independence, a vibrant and entrepreneurial population, a foreign policy centered around Africa and a relatively large military is the only force standing in the way of a French economic, military and political domination in West Africa.

Through it all France and the United States have continued to mentor Chads military , and in return the morally bankrupt sellout country Chad has lent its muscle to support French interest in the region. Chad for instance joined the 2013 US-backed French military intervention to retake Mali after Islanists occupied the southern half of Mali.
They will come for Nigeria, unfortunately our leaders are incredibly aloof of the developing trend and the complete encirclenent of Nigeria, cutting her off from the nearest Anglophone ECOWAS member state.

Military personnel.
Active Duty : 30,000
Reserve : N/A
Combat aircraft.
Air to Air : 15
Air to Ground : 5
Helicopter gunship: 6
Surveillance /Reconnaissance
American-French operated surveillance UAV's


......to be continued

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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by Litmus: 6:59pm On Jul 25, 2017
SSBN:
....continuation

CHAD

The Chadian armed forces is reputed to be amongst the most revered in Africa, not necessarily because of its size and weapons, but rather its exploits. Though small and lacking in resources it is a well organised fighting force. Modelled after the French Foreign Legion, the reputation of Chadian soldiers, many of which have been accused of war crimes,are well founded.

The Chadian army is fearless. They invaded the northern Nigerian State of Borno and held 12 villages for days before they were chased out and pursued 12 miles into the Chadian capital N'djamena by the Nigerian army. You see, the fact that they were gonna get their asses whooped by the Nigerian army didn't stop them from trying, and they will try again.

The exploits of these desert warriors were so legendary the lexicon "Toyota War" was coined after them, when shortly after getting whooped by the Nigerian Army for their military adventurism into Nigeria, the Chadians embarked on another insane military adventure, this time with Libya in 1987. Chad's war with Libya in itself is a stuff of military legend.

In the Chad-Libya war , Libya's leader Muammer Ghadafi sent an expeditionary force of 9,000 soldiers, 300 tanks, dozens of multiple launch rocket systems, some illegally outfitted with thermobaric warheads and hundreds of artillery pieces. Like that was not enough, the Libyans deployed 12 Mil Mi-24 helicopter gunships and over 60 combat aircrafts, majority of them Soviet built MiGs.
But you gotta give it to the Chadians, these guys are either stark raving suicidal, or incredibly fearless.

The Chadian answer to Libya's mind bending firepower was just 9,000 soldie.....err desert warriors and 400 Toyota pickup trucks and MILAN anti-tank missiles. Yes. TOYOTA FUCKUP TRUCKS. No air power, no tanks, no amoured vehicles, no anti aircraft guns and no artillery.

How the Chadians pull this off is a stuff of military legend. The Chadians might be insanely brave but they are not delusional. They will be masacred taking on Libya's forces head on. Instead they avoided a frontal assault, taking advantage of their mobility they sorrounded the Libyan positions and unleashed ground troops, ( try shooting a foot soldier yards from you with a tank ). It was over in hours. Over 700 Libyans were killed and 150 tanks destroyed. The Chadians lost only 50 soldiers.

Stunned by the defeat, Ghadafi reacted by ordering the bombing of the Chadian town of Arada. This did not go down well with France, who retaliated by launching airstrikes on Libya's radar systems, destroying it completely. Something Nigeria should take note of. France will protect its protege regardless who attacked first.

For a desperately poor tiny landlocked country, the Chadians have been involved militarily in more countries in Africa than any other.The Chadian army have been involved in the Central African Republic. They helped overthrow the Central African Republic's President after relaying the position of South African troops protecting the president to anti government rebels,leading to SADC troops protecting the President being ambushed with the loss of 13 South African soldiers.

They have been accused of stocking sectarian strife in the CAR by supporting Muslim militias against Christian fighters. In one instance a Chadian military convoy arrived in a crowded market place in Bangui and opened fire on the population without any provocation. As panic stricken people fled in all directions the soldiers continued firing indiscriminately, murdering 30 civilians and injuring hundreds.

With these gross human rights violation from a dictatorship, one would thing that the United States, the world's oldest constitutional democracy will work with Nigeria, the world's fourth largest democracy to promote democratic governance and place punitive economic sanctions against the 30 year dictatorship...

The reverse is the case. Instead the United States, not comfortable with Nigeria's dominant status in West Africa, its role in making ECOWAS the most democratic region of Africa,its refusal to cite AFRICOM military command HQ close to the country with the richest energy reserve and not happy with its anti same sex marriage legislation- have ceased on every opportunity to bring the regional hegemon to its knees.

At the height of the Boko Haram insurgency, the United States banned the sale of weapons to the Nigerian Army over human rights violation, torpedoed an Israeli arms deal with Nigeria, put a kiposh on a Pakistani arms deal with Nigeria and stopped the import of Nigerian crude.
At the same time the United States offered military and financial assistance to Chad, the country with the longest serving dictatorship, even without the Chadians asking. Such hypocrisy have been engineered by the French.

When Nigeria "stubornly" forgot the CIA script of a Nigeria breakup in 2015, the United States hoped Nigeria will not forget the script in its presidential elections. So confident was the Obama administration that this time Nigeria will follow the script, the U.S sent a detachment of 300 Marines to Ghana on the eve of Nigeria's 2015 presidential election, ready to go in and evacuate American and French citizens when the expected post election violence ensues.

Again Nigeria did not read or stubornly refused to read the script. America's next move was to build a surveillance facility in N'djamena, the capital of Chad.
The increased U.S interest in Chad follows on the heels of a push by France, Chads colonial overlord and America's current proxy in West Africa to beef up its military footprint West Africa.

West Africa, Anglo-dominated region and home to the worlds 9th largest proven oil reserve of a staggering 42 billion barres of crude seems like the natural spot for the U.S AFRICOM Command, the only problem was that there is a country whose economic, political and military power and cultural influence encompasses across a chain of 16 countries stretching from east to west.
Chads army has no ability to face the kind of military firepower a fully mobilized Nigerian military can muster. Against this backdrop the United States and France for the past couple of years ignored Chads appalling human rights record and poured a huge amount of money, time and effort into making Chad the preeminent military power in West Africa.

Nigeria, a black country with more people than Britannia and France combined and with a strong sense of independence, a vibrant and entrepreneurial population, a foreign policy centered around Africa and a relatively large military is the only force standing in the way of a French economic, military and political domination in West Africa.

Through it all France and the United States have continued to mentor Chads military , and in return the morally bankrupt sellout country Chad has lent its muscle to support French interest in the region. Chad for instance joined the 2013 US-backed French military intervention to retake Mali after Islanists occupied the southern half of Mali.
They will come for Nigeria, unfortunately our leaders are incredibly aloof of the developing trend and the complete encirclenent of Nigeria, cutting her off from the nearest Anglophone ECOWAS member state.

Military personnel.
Active Duty : 30,000
Reserve : N/A
Combat aircraft.
Air to Air : 15
Air to Ground : 5
Helicopter gunship: 6
Surveillance /Reconnaissance
American-French operated surveillance UAV's


......to be continued

Well observed. I could plant a smacker on your forehead for this but we're blokes, so I won't, not even for fear of Americans

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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by cutievik: 7:17pm On Jul 25, 2017
Keep up the good work bro, we are following..

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Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by DonBobes(m): 8:18pm On Jul 25, 2017
No developed country dances in d face of an asymmetric war because d enemy's LOCATION is not defined. because to identify d enemy and take him out u need to LOCATE, know d ACTION of d enemy & lastly d DESCRIPTION of d enemy (LAD in short). Abah op Cameroon all these we know about them dey can't toy with a cobra's tail now. We too big for Cameroon to handle. U are mistaken to have judged us based on what is happening with BH. U know how many years it took USA to tidy up Afghanistan? And dat country is still not calmed yet. Terrorism is wat every country avoids. Dats y if a country was involved in terrorist attack, she will quickly come out to deny dat fact and pin it somewhere else so the populace will not b scared. Dats all for now
Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by GrandGarcon: 8:55pm On Jul 25, 2017
theSpark:
Well in a way I'm happy that Anglo phone Cameroon have seen the consequences of their actions. When a referendum was held in the 1960s, the northern part chose to stay with Nigeria while the southern part decided to go with Cameroon. I believe after their maltreatment they've learnt their lesson.

In any war with Cameroon they will be valuable assets. I don't see how Nigeria will be defeated by Cameroon, we may receive a strong first beating but the response will leave Cameroon a wasteland. Besides if they try it Nigeria should annex the Anglo phone Cameroon back.
lies from the pit of hell. Yoy are bluffing
Re: War With Cameroon Imminent. by leofab(f): 9:16pm On Jul 25, 2017
We await

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