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Waterproof tablet developed for Russia’s special forces .

Advanced weapons keeping Russia safe in Kaliningrad .

Russian Marine Spetsnaz (SOF) uses look-alikes of Swedish CB90 boats (Раптор) and Finnish M05 uniforms (Егерь).

#ISIS suicide bomber detonated his vest killing 8 Libyan troops near Benghazi ...


http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/12/19/is-suicide-bomber-kills-8-libyan-troops-near-benghazi.html

A Nigerian #military Agusta 101 logistic helic supplying a battalion fighting #BokoHaram in sambisa escaped BH gunfire during lift-off Mon

#BokoHaram fighters apply Far Ambush tactics to wit aim to disrupt & harass some Nigerian #military units esp. in S. Flank of Sambisa

Ex #BokoHaram fighter says many BHT fighters are still in besieged Sambisa forest reserve & they have explosive belts.

unknown87:
I was born in the late 80s. But I'm quite sure that the army used rifles that looked like that. My uncle was in the NA and I saw a number of his pictures growing up. In some of them he was caring rifles that looked like that. If that is the rifle we can say to a large extent that the NPF just started buying their own arms in the early 2000s

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Actually, has of that time the AK riffles where already in service both in the NA & NPF. But it was not standard issue with the NPF & NA.

Live now ; OPERATION LAFIYA DOLE THEATRE COMMANDER PRESS CONFERENCE.

ON NTA.

A damaged bridge in the north east by BHT.

#T72 CREW

Fynline:
Exercise Eagle Eye


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmcE3UXV5Iw

Nice one....

NA

The Theatre Commander, Operation LAFIYA DOLE, Major General LEO Irabor, will today Wednesday 21st December 2016 hold a media briefing to update the public on Operation LAFIYA DOLE generally and in particular Operation RESCUE FINALE from 1400-1500hrs (2.00-3.00pm) which will be televised live by Channels TV and NTA.
Kindly watch and inform others to watch too.
Brig Gen SK Usman, Ag DAPR.

CLARIFICATION: Nigerian Army Clears the Air on Video Clip Alleging Maltreatment of Soldiers

The attention of Nigerian Army has been drawn to a video clip circulating on Social Media of soldiers alleging lack of food and water.

We wish to state that the video clip was shot more than six months ago by some mischievous and disgruntled elements when 29 Task Force Brigade captured Alagarno Forest and environs in Borno State.

It is disheartening that some mischievous elements have decided to circulate it now, creating the false impression that it is a recent occurrence.

We wish to state further that the matter was conclusively investigated at the time, several months ago. The Board of Inquiry actually showed that, as at the time of the incident, the unit’s water tanker still contained water, but a soldier mischievously concealed it. That soldier was charged and punished accordingly.

In addition to the unit’s water tanker, a borehole was subsequently drilled at the location and it is still serving both the military and adjoining communities.

We wish to restate with utmost concern the continued commitment of the Nigerian Army to the total welfare of all its personnel.

Thank you for your kind cooperation.

Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usman
Acting Director Army Public Relations

Nigerian soldiers dying from lack of water, food.
(VIDEO INSIDE)


http://m.news24.com.ng/Nigeria/National/News/watch-nigerian-soldiers-dying-from-lack-of-water-food-20161220

unknown87:
bros the NPF did not make use of bolt action rifles in the 80s and 90s although they made use of some old rifles that looked like that. They made use of the Beretta M-12 SMG, Korean k2 rifle, FNC, Sig assult rifle, PTR91, G-3, Pump action rifle. The problems they had was that those weapons were old and insufficient (both arms and ammunition). Back then you would see the police man armed with a k2 rifle that is being held together with brown tape. The butt of some of this rifle has fallen off. Infact you would see some of the magazines being held together with sellotape. Those were common sights back then until Tafa BAlogun came into office and the first set of Ak-47s (the complete black ones) were introduced. Infact back then some of these rifles were not working at all. The rifles being used by the police force were said to have been passed on to them from the army. The NCS also faced the problem of OLD G3 rifels.
The first set of Ak rifels used by the NA was delivered to them durning the civil war from russia. The AK 47 has been in the inventory of the NA every since then with supplies coming in. Although the FN-FAL has been the standard issue for the infantry.
The civil defence corp has been buying their arms from the start but have been complimenting it with FN-FAL and G3 from the army. Pls not that the NSCDC bought AK-47s at first but has been been receiving AK-103(complete black).

I think i can still remember NPF using :
British Enfield No. 1 Mk. III* rifle (.303 British) or something similar while growing has a kid in the 80's then. In those days NPF wear well starched and ironed green-grey uniform for both officers and "recuites"

Unfortunately, during the inglorious regime of Presidential Ibrahim Babangida and under the watch of the then Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji M. Gambo Jimeta, the colour of the Police uniforms were changed from the revered green-grey colour to black-black on the 4th April, 1988. Many critics had argued over the years that this singular act really affected the efficiencies of the Police Force.

Al Shabaab militants kill senior official in Somalia's Puntland


Al Qaeda-affiliated al Shabaab militants shot dead an aide to a regional official in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region on Tuesday, the second such attack in a week, police said.

Aden Huruse, a director in Puntland's presidential palace, was attacked at a restaurant in its main city Bosasso, police told Reuters. "Two men armed with pistols fired several bullets into his head. He died on the spot," said Major Mohamed Hassan, a Bosasso police officer.

Al Shabaab regularly targets officials throughout Somalia. Its insurgency aims to drive out African Union peacekeepers, topple Somalia's Western-backed government and impose its strict version of Islam on the Horn of Africa state.

Tuesday's shooting occurred six days after al Shabaab gunmen killed the region's deputy police commander Jamac Sahardiid outside a hotel in Bosasso.

"This evening we killed the director in Bosasso. We were also behind the killing of Puntland's deputy police commander days ago," said Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, the militant's military operation spokesman.

The al Shabaab insurgency persists in Somalia as it pursues reconstruction after more than two decades of conflict and chaos that have left the nation in tatters.

Somalis are now voting across the country for a new parliament, which will choose a new president.

doziex:
Until about 10-15 years ago, NPF used WW2 era bolt action rifles. They have since graduated to AK-47s, as they were being routinely outgunned by armed robbers.

NA for it's part is transitioning from the FN-FAL to the various AK's, Tavors, Beryls and what have you.

The FN-FALs and some older AK's seem to be going to the civil defense force. Which if trained properly, can morph into a proper reserve service to assist our armed forces.

The civilian JTF are now receiving uniforms and are being incorporated into our security infrastructure. They should be given those ex NPF bolt action rifles, to be more effective.

Also, captured BHT AKs should be given to their squad commanders.

The Nigerian armed forces and intelligence services should now be experts at selecting promising candidates from the CDC and the CJTF.

The same should apply to ex niger delta militants that have surrendered their arms and gone thru demobilization and rehabilitation courses.
Some ex militants, used to be employed in pipeline protection and anti bunkering activities.

Rather than having them return to their old habits, they should be incorporated into CDC and CJTF type units to assist the army. They are rich in necessary intelligence, knowledge of the battle space and combat experience.

Of course, it must be stipulated, that betrayal of their new formations would attract a court martial, and the firing squad.

Nice take you av here mate.

Sooner or later those old ak-riffle will fade away in our armed forces, just like bolt action riffle & the FN-FAL. I believe it will be a gradual process.

On the issue of arming civilian JTF; I think the NA is already doing what you just suggested ; squad leaders are issued with AK riffle and some other important post amongst them with pump action riffle & radio coms. And I believe they are being trained/regimented to some extent.

I just posted a video "joint forces in sambisa" on page 216, where you will see some of these things about the CJTF.

BRITISH MILITARY ADVISORY TRAINING TEAM TRAINS ANOTHER SET OF NIGERIAN AIR FORCE REGIMENT PERSONNEL

The collaboration between the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) and British Military Advisory Training Team (BMATT) has produced another batch of trained NAF Regiment personnel. The graduands comprise 5 officers and 200 airmen who graduated recently from the Regiment Training Centre (RTC), Kaduna, having successfully undergone the 5-month Basic Regiment Courses for officers and airmen respectively. The objective of the basic courses is to impart the participants with basic regiment skills and knowledge to enable them meet the complex demands of emerging security challenges. BMATT handled the airfield defence and force protection aspects of the training that lasted for 6 weeks. Among the graduands are additional 35 members of Defence Headquarters Special Forces trained in rappelling to impart in them the basic insertion/extraction skills for special operations.

So far, RTC has trained a total of 518 officers and men since establishment on 20 January 2016. Earlier in the year, the RTC in collaboration with BMATT, had graduated two batches of students totaling 313 including NAF officers, airmen and airwomen as well as personnel from the Nigerian Navy and Defence Headquarters. The new graduands are expected to be deployed to the North East to boost the current strength of personnel involved in the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency.

MISSING THE POINT WITH COUNTER INSURGENCY (COIN)


I thoroughly enjoy discussions on conflicts, insurgencies and wars and the countering of these actions, regardless if I agree with them or not. I know many criticise and do not agree with my viewpoints and view them as too simplistic. What I consider to be critical in the ending of a conflict, an insurgency or civil war has been very successfully applied in practise. Food for thought is, however, never bad food regardless of how it is served.

Insurgencies are not new, nor does fighting them require a “new” way of fighting. Nor do fighting insurgencies need to be long, protracted and costly affairs if the strategy is balanced. However, there seems to be a misguided belief that if we can define an insurgency precisely, we can defeat it. Whereas a definition holds value, its value is lost if the cause is not fully understood.

Ending an insurgency may not always be easy but it is certainly very possible. Contrary to the belief of some, an insurgency is not a spontaneous event but rather a threat that has been allowed to develop over a period of time. It is a political problem that has been brought about by dysfunctional or poor governance, a sense of political isolation and the suppression of hope along with a combination of anger, hatred and revenge that has impacted negatively on the populace and caused the populace immense distress. When the populace feel they have lost hope and have nothing more to lose by rising up against the government, they will do exactly that.

One of the strategic objectives of an insurgency may be to develop their planned armed struggle into a civil war to pit citizen against citizen and in so doing, collapse the Pillars of State and along with them, the established political order. This requires mobilising the quiet majority of the populace to disrupt government efforts through armed violence, civil disobedience, terrorism, violent crime, civil unrest and violent protests. Tribalism, religion, racial and ethnic tensions along with economic disparities are often used as motivators in the calls for the populace to rise up.  

If an under-threat government makes use of a foreign allied military force to assist it suppress the insurgency, the populace’s “silent majority” will generally accept this decision as long as the combined force does not target them. The foreign forces will, however, be closely watched in terms of their actions, discipline and attitude towards the populace. Uncontrolled behaviour, unlawful acts and/or attacks on civilians by the foreign forces will simply become a rallying call for the populace to join – or at the very least – support the insurgency.

Conversely, the populace may believe that the arrival of foreign forces allows them to take the law into their own hands and extract revenge against those insurgents and their supporters hiding in plain sight. Once this cycle of violence begins, it is very difficult to stop and its effects are usually long-lasting.

However, relying solely on foreign forces to ultimately defeat the armed insurgents will result in a hollow victory for the government forces as when the foreign forces leave, the insurgency will simply resurface and be characterised by more intense violence.

If a country has been invaded and occupied by a foreign force that shows little or no respect towards the government, the law enforcement agencies, the armed forces and the populace, their property, culture, traditions, political system and religion, the anger, discontent and humiliation of the subjugated will in all probability give rise to a rebellion or an insurgency in order to eject the occupiers. Added to this is the oft-imposed morality and ideology of the occupying forces that results in additional anger, confusion and discontent. It is this anger that will result in attacks on the occupying force by the populace and the local soldiers and policemen that have been “forced” to partner with the occupation forces – the so-called “green-on-blue” attacks.

The ability of an insurgent group to attack across numerous spheres of the state gives them a flexibility the government has allowed them to have – by creating a condition of dissatisfaction that can be exploited. This is in part due to a lack of a coherent realistic national strategy and a poor, unstructured and unaligned national security strategy and its various components, coupled to poor governance and neglect of the populace. Add to this a lack of credible intelligence and the means to act/react on intelligence and the insurgents are given the initiative whilst the security forces fall into the trap of becoming reactive.

By exploiting both the mainstream and social media for disinformation and propaganda purposes, insurgents create the perception that they are more successful and stronger than they really are. It also gives them an instrument for reaching other fence-sitting or neutral members of the populace. Every action and success is aimed at showing their determination and even minor tactical successes are proclaimed to be major tactical victories. This can, along with the collateral damage caused by the security forces, harness both local and international support and sympathy for their cause.

International support such as funding, weapons, training and sanctuaries and sympathy – along with unvetted NGOs and “charity organisations” -  especially when the insurgents are acting as a proxy force on behalf of a foreign government or sponsor whose intentions are the placement of a puppet government, can result in sanctions on an international level. These sanctions are aimed are weakening the government whilst strengthening the insurgents. Apart from the wholesale death and destruction of innocents and their property, the international support has a tendency to escalate out of control and bring additional governments into the conflict to support one side or the other.

The first-line of defence against an insurgency is – apart from good governance – aggressive, pro-active intelligence gathering coupled to coordinated law enforcement actions. Sadly, many governments choose to ignore the wall as the writing becomes more obvious, especially if it does not match their perception of reality.

When the armed forces are called on to provide counter insurgency support to the law enforcement agencies, it is usually an indication of failure by government and the intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The mission of the armed forces ought to be the creation of a climate in which government can govern and the law enforcement agencies can again begin enforcing the law.

When an insurgency or conflict has entered into the armed or military phase, the Trinity of Gravity needs to be identified, isolated, attacked and neutralised, allowing the government to regain control. 

I believe the concept of using the armed forces to establish control over the entire Trinity of Gravity is both flawed and wishful thinking as soldiers are neither trained to govern nor enforce the law – nor are they trained to be diplomats. The bottom line is that if the armed forces do not take effective control of the insurgents, the insurgents will simply take control of the populace – at the expense of everyone including the armed forces.

Preventing and/or defeating an insurgency, therefore, begins with the display of political will by the government coupled to ever-improving delivery of government services, the continued gathering of intelligence and the enforcement of law in all its facets – and not with the armed forces trying to play politics and govern.

NA VICKERS MBT CREW

JOINT FORCE'S IN SAMBISA



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIgAs0g9q4o

Special Report: Military Launches Operation Rescue Finale In Borno Pt.1




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foCfHDZW_yM


Interest video to watch.

SAMBISA - Full Movie [4K]



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2WCAgae2_A

Nice piece on the JF 17



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZthdDd1Qj6A



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ft2t3Fa6L4

Henry240:
Lagos State neigbour-hood watch

Lagos leads others follow.....

#RANDOM

CONCLUSION.

MORE.

RTC-BMATT COLLABORATION GRADUATES ANOTHER SET OF REGIMENT SPECIALISTS

PUPILS HONORS TROOP FOR THEIR SACRIFICE

Troops of Operation Lafia Dole were on Monday 19 December 2016 presented with gift packs of essential daily need at the Headquarters of 7 Division of the Nigerian Army Maimalari Cantonment, Maiduguri by Volt Club students and Children International School (CIS) Lekki,Lagos.

The gift pack tagged “Ziploc” contains varieties of items which includes tooth brush, toothpastes, sanitary pads, shaving sticks,chewing gum, towels, bathing soaps, candies, recharge cards, handy greeting cards with hand written motivating messages by pupils of the school to soldiers fighting in order to keep the country safe and secured.

The leader of the CIS Ziploc Appeal 2016 delegation, Mr Bhila Kiphani during the presentation of gifts stated that the students willingly donated part of their pocket monies to fund the project so as to put smiles on the faces of troops who are tirelessly fighting in hash terrains to save the country from insurgency.

Some of the emotional messages on the handy card sent to troops read "Thanks for putting smile on our faces”, “Thanks for fighting for me”, “Thank you for sacrificing your life for me", “ Thank you Solider, I pray you return home safely”.

In his response the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division Brigadier General Victor Ezugwu commended the pupil for remembering soldiers fighting in the heart of Sambisa. "This is the most emotional moment of my stay as GOC of the 7 Division, for two and three year old children to contribute their pockets monies to remember our soldiers”.

He further stated that “While people like you are here appreciating the good work of Nigerian troops, some are working hard to sabotage our effort”. "We want to assure the CIS Lekki pupil/students that we will not let them down, we promise to exterminate Boko Haram Terrorist from their hide out and ensure that they never exist again in our country”.

You are please requested to inform the public.
Thank you for your usual cooperation

Colonel Mustapha Anka
Deputy Director
Army Public Relations
7 Division