The U.S. military is encircling Nigeria with a chain of air bases, drone bases and surveillance facilities. The latest link: a $150 million drone base airstrip Niamey, Niger Republic and Garoua, Cameroon. The U.S. Air Force is planning to lease 33 acres of land on the island for the next 50 years to build a “divert airfield” in Benin.

The plan is to usurpe Nigeria's traditional diplomatic leadership in the region with Ghana, replace Nigeria's economic leadership with Morocco and weaken Nigeria's military power with never ending conflicts. As of this writing the U.S First Lady Melania Trump is in Ghana for a state visit.

In March 2018, despite strong objections by Nigeria, Ghana approved a controversial military agreement with the United States . The agreement grants the United States unrestricted access to a host of Ghanaian military facilities and wide-ranging tax exemptions to the most powerful military the world has ever known.

The agreement will also permit the US military to use Ghana as a base for staging and deploying forces. Ever hungry for power and competiin with Nigeria, the Ghana-U.S agreement is a grave strategic blunder for Ghana. For a country that touts its political stability and peace, the American military bases will make Ghana a magnet for terrorists.

There are also unconfirmed report that the United States Air Force is planning to lease 33 acres of land in Benin for the next 50 years to build a “divert airfield” there. History has shown that to be surrounded by America comes with its attendant risks.

In addition to the site on, the Air Force plans to send aircraft on regular deployments for the first time to bases ranging from Cameroon to Mali as part of its bulked up force in the region. These plans include regular deployments to the already existing drone bases in Garoua, Cameroon, Air Base 201 in Niger, and possibly bases in Mali and Ghana.

As I’ve written in the past, these Pentagon plans are part of the Franco-American strategy contain China's growing influence, and also to keep the giant Nigeria in a self-perpetuating ecosystem of political instability and strife. 

China's engagement in Africa. 





Franco-American engagement in Africa.



The idea is to have enough US bases and Air Force capabilities peppered throughout the region so that Nigeria would be too surrounded to safely attack in the event of a conflict.

As it stands today, if the Franco-American power decides to pull a Libya style intervention in Nigeria using a false flag stint, American drones, French aircrafts and even submarines can knock out any target or site located deep inside Nigerian territory. The initial ‘blinding campaign’ would be followed by a larger air and naval assault. The Nigerian government will capitulate. It will be over within hours. 

One would expect the Nigerian government will be none-too-pleased with the fact that the nations that carried out several wargames and is planning contingencies to “intervene”, is encircling Nigeria on virtually all front. By 2019 the only place that will be devoid of Franco-American presence for Nigeria will be the Atlantic.

Imagine the calls for war in Washington if China was backing various Latin American countries with money and weapons and building air and naval bases in the Caribbean with the explicit aim of bombing United States to smithereens. This is exactly what the powers that be have done to Nigeria.

The Nigerian government in asleep. Self absorbed and too distracted with domestic politics and internal strife to notice the noose being tied around the country's neck. That's the plan.

Nigeria is threading on dangerous ground with its complacency and nonchalance. There is a dangerous tendency toward alarmism that is exaggerating the "threat and use it as an excuse to intervene militarily. They did it with Iraq, as it later turned out there was no WMD.  They did it with Libya. Under the excuse of protecting the Libyan people from the tyrant Myanmar Gaddafi, they destroyed an entire country and created an ecosystem of self-perpetuating violence and strife that continues till this day. Fifty years of Libya's development wiped out within months by NATO.

No, there is no ISIS in Nigeria. No, Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi is not hiding in Nigeria. Boko Haram has not and cannot challenge core "U.S. interests". The dying European power simply objects to resurgent Nigeria living up to its full potential after seeing the progress made in just under a decade of democratic governance.

The powers that be object to Nigeria's growing economy and military power at the same time China's influence on the continent. Such powers are reserved for France and America, goes the thinking. So, we’ll threaten anyone who challenges that with war.

https://defensenigeria.blog/2018/10/02/why-nigeria-is-being-encircled-by-military-bases/

Hmm

We need to send this FP.


Great write up btw.


cc:Lalasticlala

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Loo

After booking this page and have nothing to type so let me bow out in peace.

US destroyed Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc and are gradually inching to destroy Nigeria. All because of oil. Check all the wars currently going on and see the role US played.


And this why i love Putin. He is somehow helping in checkmating the excesses of US.

Why won't US encircle your corrupt country?

ipobarecriminals:
Our pythons dancer too shud go encamp around Mexico. Dey have dance 3nuf with IPOB

Can the Python Dancing Nigerian misfits you call soldiers face the highly trained soldiers of the United States Marine Corps or the US Special Forces?

I laff in Chinese version of laughter.

Ghanaian politicians are brain dead bastards! Don't ask me why...

is it not good they do that since our leaders failed

Our pythons dancer too shud go encamp around Mexico. Dey have dance 3nuf with IPOB

Propaganda, they don't need military bases, only two f35 and one submarine can take down our fvcking military, within minutes. Is it with these outdated weapons they will use to defend Nigeria?

Hmm

So US wants to weaken us but we still went ahead to buy nearly $500m worth of Aircrafts from them.

F**k America anything/ place d touch d destroy

Hmmmmm

anything to bring about an end to the cesspit is highly welcomed....God bless america....home of the free land of the brave

Nukilia:
Ghanaian politicians are brain dead bastards! Don't ask me why...

you must say why.....since u can't keep quiet

Yet we can't stop insurgency.

Giant in comatose state. Even ants can play poker around his rotten body.

DDGN:
The U.S. military is encircling Nigeria with a chain of air bases, drone bases and surveillance facilities. The latest link: a $150 million drone base airstrip Niamey, Niger Republic and Garoua, Cameroon. The U.S. Air Force is planning to lease 33 acres of land on the island for the next 50 years to build a “divert airfield” in Benin.

The plan is to usurpe Nigeria's traditional diplomatic leadership in the region with Ghana, replace Nigeria's economic leadership with Morocco and weaken Nigeria's military power with never ending conflicts. As of this writing the U.S First Lady Melania Trump is in Ghana for a state visit.

In March 2018, despite strong objections by Nigeria, Ghana approved a controversial military agreement with the United States . The agreement grants the United States unrestricted access to a host of Ghanaian military facilities and wide-ranging tax exemptions to the most powerful military the world has ever known.

The agreement will also permit the US military to use Ghana as a base for staging and deploying forces. Ever hungry for power and competiin with Nigeria, the Ghana-U.S agreement is a grave strategic blunder for Ghana. For a country that touts its political stability and peace, the American military bases will make Ghana a magnet for terrorists.

There are also unconfirmed report that the United States Air Force is planning to lease 33 acres of land in Benin for the next 50 years to build a “divert airfield” there. History has shown that to be surrounded by America comes with its attendant risks.

In addition to the site on, the Air Force plans to send aircraft on regular deployments for the first time to bases ranging from Cameroon to Mali as part of its bulked up force in the region. These plans include regular deployments to the already existing drone bases in Garoua, Cameroon, Air Base 201 in Niger, and possibly bases in Mali and Ghana.

As I’ve written in the past, these Pentagon plans are part of the Franco-American strategy contain China's growing influence, and also to keep the giant Nigeria in a self-perpetuating ecosystem of political instability and strife. 

China's engagement in Africa. 





Franco-American engagement in Africa.



The idea is to have enough US bases and Air Force capabilities peppered throughout the region so that Nigeria would be too surrounded to safely attack in the event of a conflict.

As it stands today, if the Franco-American power decides to pull a Libya style intervention in Nigeria using a false flag stint, American drones, French aircrafts and even submarines can knock out any target or site located deep inside Nigerian territory. The initial ‘blinding campaign’ would be followed by a larger air and naval assault. The Nigerian government will capitulate. It will be over within hours. 

One would expect the Nigerian government will be none-too-pleased with the fact that the nations that carried out several wargames and is planning contingencies to “intervene”, is encircling Nigeria on virtually all front. By 2019 the only place that will be devoid of Franco-American presence for Nigeria will be the Atlantic.

Imagine the calls for war in Washington if China was backing various Latin American countries with money and weapons and building air and naval bases in the Caribbean with the explicit aim of bombing United States to smithereens. This is exactly what the powers that be have done to Nigeria.

The Nigerian government in asleep. Self absorbed and too distracted with domestic politics and internal strife to notice the noose being tied around the country's neck. That's the plan.

Nigeria is threading on dangerous ground with its complacency and nonchalance. There is a dangerous tendency toward alarmism that is exaggerating the "threat and use it as an excuse to intervene militarily. They did it with Iraq, as it later turned out there was no WMD.  They did it with Libya. Under the excuse of protecting the Libyan people from the tyrant Myanmar Gaddafi, they destroyed an entire country and created an ecosystem of self-perpetuating violence and strife that continues till this day. Fifty years of Libya's development wiped out within months by NATO.

No, there is no ISIS in Nigeria. No, Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi is not hiding in Nigeria. Boko Haram has not and cannot challenge core "U.S. interests". The dying European power simply objects to resurgent Nigeria living up to its full potential after seeing the progress made in just under a decade of democratic governance.

The powers that be object to Nigeria's growing economy and military power at the same time China's influence on the continent. Such powers are reserved for France and America, goes the thinking. So, we’ll threaten anyone who challenges that with war.

https://defensenigeria.blog/2018/10/02/why-nigeria-is-being-encircled-by-military-bases/

Wetin consan me with the zoo. I'm even praying for God to destroy the zoo which is a curse to humanity

Forget the US, lets review the distribution and security apparatuses of the Nigerian Internal security.

The current Nigerian Military was structured along colonial interests i.e. not in anticipation of an external threat but rather internal.

The Colonial administrators built military bases in strategic towns and places in Nigeria as a precursor in stemming internal strife.

This same handed sown military doctrine is what the Nigerian security policy and stratagem is based on.

OP, your land lose? If our neighbors are willing to sell their land to the US, all we can do is complain during the ECOWAS abi na AU meetings. Their land, their rules, their problem.

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author=DDGN post=71712199]The U.S. military is encircling Nigeria with a chain of air bases, drone bases and surveillance facilities. The latest link: a $150 million drone base airstrip Niamey, Niger Republic and Garoua, Cameroon. The U.S. Air Force is planning to lease 33 acres of land on the island for the next 50 years to build a “divert airfield” in Benin.

The plan is to usurpe Nigeria's traditional diplomatic leadership in the region with Ghana, replace Nigeria's economic leadership with Morocco and weaken Nigeria's military power with never ending conflicts. As of this writing the U.S First Lady Melania Trump is in Ghana for a state visit.

In March 2018, despite strong objections by Nigeria, Ghana approved a controversial military agreement with the United States . The agreement grants the United States unrestricted access to a host of Ghanaian military facilities and wide-ranging tax exemptions to the most powerful military the world has ever known.

The agreement will also permit the US military to use Ghana as a base for staging and deploying forces. Ever hungry for power and competiin with Nigeria, the Ghana-U.S agreement is a grave strategic blunder for Ghana. For a country that touts its political stability and peace, the American military bases will make Ghana a magnet for terrorists.

There are also unconfirmed report that the United States Air Force is planning to lease 33 acres of land in Benin for the next 50 years to build a “divert airfield” there. History has shown that to be surrounded by America comes with its attendant risks.

In addition to the site on, the Air Force plans to send aircraft on regular deployments for the first time to bases ranging from Cameroon to Mali as part of its bulked up force in the region. These plans include regular deployments to the already existing drone bases in Garoua, Cameroon, Air Base 201 in Niger, and possibly bases in Mali and Ghana.

As I’ve written in the past, these Pentagon plans are part of the Franco-American strategy contain China's growing influence, and also to keep the giant Nigeria in a self-perpetuating ecosystem of political instability and strife. 

China's engagement in Africa. 





Franco-American engagement in Africa.



The idea is to have enough US bases and Air Force capabilities peppered throughout the region so that Nigeria would be too surrounded to safely attack in the event of a conflict.

As it stands today, if the Franco-American power decides to pull a Libya style intervention in Nigeria using a false flag stint, American drones, French aircrafts and even submarines can knock out any target or site located deep inside Nigerian territory. The initial ‘blinding campaign’ would be followed by a larger air and naval assault. The Nigerian government will capitulate. It will be over within hours. 

One would expect the Nigerian government will be none-too-pleased with the fact that the nations that carried out several wargames and is planning contingencies to “intervene”, is encircling Nigeria on virtually all front. By 2019 the only place that will be devoid of Franco-American presence for Nigeria will be the Atlantic.

Imagine the calls for war in Washington if China was backing various Latin American countries with money and weapons and building air and naval bases in the Caribbean with the explicit aim of bombing United States to smithereens. This is exactly what the powers that be have done to Nigeria.

The Nigerian government in asleep. Self absorbed and too distracted with domestic politics and internal strife to notice the noose being tied around the country's neck. That's the plan.

Nigeria is threading on dangerous ground with its complacency and nonchalance. There is a dangerous tendency toward alarmism that is exaggerating the "threat and use it as an excuse to intervene militarily. They did it with Iraq, as it later turned out there was no WMD.  They did it with Libya. Under the excuse of protecting the Libyan people from the tyrant Myanmar Gaddafi, they destroyed an entire country and created an ecosystem of self-perpetuating violence and strife that continues till this day. Fifty years of Libya's development wiped out within months by NATO.

No, there is no ISIS in Nigeria. No, Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi is not hiding in Nigeria. Boko Haram has not and cannot challenge core "U.S. interests". The dying European power simply objects to resurgent Nigeria living up to its full potential after seeing the progress made in just under a decade of democratic governance.

The powers that be object to Nigeria's growing economy and military power at the same time China's influence on the continent. Such powers are reserved for France and America, goes the thinking. So, we’ll threaten anyone who challenges that with war.

https://defensenigeria.blog/2018/10/02/why-nigeria-is-being-encircled-by-military-bases/

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A Bokoharam sponsored article

US bases only threaten terrorists and their sponsors

What are you afraid of?

Has buhari been sending money to ISIS?

You say ISIS is not in Nigeria ? Really ? When our borders are more porous than a wet sponge? When Niger fulani killers walk in and out of Nigeria as they like and now you claim there is no ISIS here? Hahahaha

This is a nonsense article written by terrorist sympathizers who want their agenda unchecked

Insightful write up ONLY for the enlightened.

Don't be surprised that most of the commenters dismissing the article and it's content are ACTUALLY western paid agents of misinformation!

Knowledge is power, be INFORMED!

Ok

But please important topic is being discussed here so little kids with hate speech should Park well

Some idiots are already saying rubbish as if war will spare their families

DDGN:
The U.S. military is encircling Nigeria with a chain of air bases, drone bases and surveillance facilities. The latest link: a $150 million drone base airstrip Niamey, Niger Republic and Garoua, Cameroon. The U.S. Air Force is planning to lease 33 acres of land on the island for the next 50 years to build a “divert airfield” in Benin.

The plan is to usurpe Nigeria's traditional diplomatic leadership in the region with Ghana, replace Nigeria's economic leadership with Morocco and weaken Nigeria's military power with never ending conflicts. As of this writing the U.S First Lady Melania Trump is in Ghana for a state visit.

In March 2018, despite strong objections by Nigeria, Ghana approved a controversial military agreement with the United States . The agreement grants the United States unrestricted access to a host of Ghanaian military facilities and wide-ranging tax exemptions to the most powerful military the world has ever known.

The agreement will also permit the US military to use Ghana as a base for staging and deploying forces. Ever hungry for power and competiin with Nigeria, the Ghana-U.S agreement is a grave strategic blunder for Ghana. For a country that touts its political stability and peace, the American military bases will make Ghana a magnet for terrorists.

There are also unconfirmed report that the United States Air Force is planning to lease 33 acres of land in Benin for the next 50 years to build a “divert airfield” there. History has shown that to be surrounded by America comes with its attendant risks.

In addition to the site on, the Air Force plans to send aircraft on regular deployments for the first time to bases ranging from Cameroon to Mali as part of its bulked up force in the region. These plans include regular deployments to the already existing drone bases in Garoua, Cameroon, Air Base 201 in Niger, and possibly bases in Mali and Ghana.

As I’ve written in the past, these Pentagon plans are part of the Franco-American strategy contain China's growing influence, and also to keep the giant Nigeria in a self-perpetuating ecosystem of political instability and strife. 

China's engagement in Africa. 





Franco-American engagement in Africa.



The idea is to have enough US bases and Air Force capabilities peppered throughout the region so that Nigeria would be too surrounded to safely attack in the event of a conflict.

As it stands today, if the Franco-American power decides to pull a Libya style intervention in Nigeria using a false flag stint, American drones, French aircrafts and even submarines can knock out any target or site located deep inside Nigerian territory. The initial ‘blinding campaign’ would be followed by a larger air and naval assault. The Nigerian government will capitulate. It will be over within hours. 

One would expect the Nigerian government will be none-too-pleased with the fact that the nations that carried out several wargames and is planning contingencies to “intervene”, is encircling Nigeria on virtually all front. By 2019 the only place that will be devoid of Franco-American presence for Nigeria will be the Atlantic.

Imagine the calls for war in Washington if China was backing various Latin American countries with money and weapons and building air and naval bases in the Caribbean with the explicit aim of bombing United States to smithereens. This is exactly what the powers that be have done to Nigeria.

The Nigerian government in asleep. Self absorbed and too distracted with domestic politics and internal strife to notice the noose being tied around the country's neck. That's the plan.

Nigeria is threading on dangerous ground with its complacency and nonchalance. There is a dangerous tendency toward alarmism that is exaggerating the "threat and use it as an excuse to intervene militarily. They did it with Iraq, as it later turned out there was no WMD.  They did it with Libya. Under the excuse of protecting the Libyan people from the tyrant Myanmar Gaddafi, they destroyed an entire country and created an ecosystem of self-perpetuating violence and strife that continues till this day. Fifty years of Libya's development wiped out within months by NATO.

No, there is no ISIS in Nigeria. No, Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi is not hiding in Nigeria. Boko Haram has not and cannot challenge core "U.S. interests". The dying European power simply objects to resurgent Nigeria living up to its full potential after seeing the progress made in just under a decade of democratic governance.

The powers that be object to Nigeria's growing economy and military power at the same time China's influence on the continent. Such powers are reserved for France and America, goes the thinking. So, we’ll threaten anyone who challenges that with war.

https://defensenigeria.blog/2018/10/02/why-nigeria-is-being-encircled-by-military-bases/

there's Isis only in the north.

Its purely for security reasons

US policing the world