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Tobiloba24072:
Exactly my point, the writer just sat down in one place and started been creative with almost no research , but with lots of eccentricity and imagination.....same thing our friendly Twitter mad man does too.
Things like this are the reasons I advocate for links and references to post.

Check the PDF, there's at least 2 pages dedicated for references, sources and links.

Tobiloba24072:
I want to believe this write up...but what is ak 49? What is German ak 47? What's Apg?

And ak47 1.2 million naira, where there are surplus black market weapons lying around this market of the world? These few points makes me question the whole write up.

Lack of knowledge and complacency from the researcher, I believe he's just regurgitating HUMINT. German "AK 47" could mean the G3 for instance, it is used widely by bandits in the NW

Apart from a few discrepancies such as this, he has done a very good job.

Tobiloba24072:
I want to believe this write up...but what is ak 49? What is German ak 47? What's Apg?

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lebuhsi:
Anybody interested in the University lecture " I AM A BANDIT" can get the PDF on the telegram group

Fascinating excerpts. unfortunately, there's no "bull in a China shop" solution to this problem. These guys are just going to disperse and it's business as usual once the heat dies down.

https://dailytrust.com/banditry-military-operation-falters-as-gunmen-choke-from-lack-of-fuel-others

Whyem15:
Some pages from the publication with the profiles of some of the bandit groups.

Good find Boss, I think we dwell too much on Kinetic solutions to our security problem.

The quality of work our Academics Chun out on solutions is mind-boggling. we really Ain't doing enough.

This picture best explains an all-inclusive approach to tackling instability

This approach is best shown in the NE theatre.

Dry season campaigns, raid raids(2 Ds), Mass surrender facilitated through the DSS's Suhul program(2 Ds).

resettling IDPs and reconstructing destroyed towns and Villages(Mallam Fatori etc 2Rs) Reintegrating low level BHTs and conscripts(2Rs)

Toju200:
Who knows this guy Niggas been captured alive by Special forces

I think his name is Kachalla, good news!!

Salatavor:
Imagine the very small strike squad that was equipped and managed by a South African war lord. How much impact they made back during GEJ. Now compare that to the whole frigging south African military. Bunch of evolution favored bad asses whose balls where never meant to be left dangling cus of the sheer weight of it.

I am not here to glorify another man's military I am here to say that we are not there yet. We have a lot to learn from the Southies. It is not a bad thing to accept that the Southies and the Algerians even the Ethiopians are a military power houses in Africa. While Nigeria struggles with managing small poorly equipped militias within its territory.


While Nigeria is buying Tucanos to chase around terrorist in a noisy and antiquated ww2 manner. Giving them more rooms to practice their plane downing skills. Algeria on the other hand is placing orders for 5th generation jet fighters that will defend its territory...

It's safe the say at this point, you just enjoy trolling.

JOSCOFELIX:
bad. may their soul rest in peace. leadership at the local level is very terrible. no road to this community.

Oga Josco, na you be this?!

lebuhsi:
This got me thinking about Nigeria's recent Bromance with Morroco that culminated in series of events, the signing of the Nigeria - Morroco(ostensibly to Europe)

https://www.gem.wiki/Nigeria-Morocco_Gas_Pipeline

Thee sourcing of Phosphate(majorly from Sahrawi Rep. which Nigeria recognises) for Nigeria's Presidential fertilizer initiative.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/03/nigeria-morocco-partner-to-build-1-3bn-fertilizer-plant/

And Morroco's misadventure in the ECOWAS( a move overtly blocked by Nigeria, after an application to join with the green light given from majorly Francophone countries)

https://newafricadaily.com/moroccos-bid-join-ecowas-remains-limbo

Ironically, at the same time, Nigeria is building what she intends would be the first phase of the Nigeria - Transaharan gas pipeline in the AKK project, originally planned with Algeria to transport Nigeria's gas through the Saharan to Algeria onward to Europe

https://newafricadaily.com/moroccos-bid-join-ecowas-remains-limbo

Lurker4Long:
BREAKING:

Algeria cuts diplomatic ties with Morocco. History will judge all those members of the AU who accepted bribes to betray the Sahrawi Republic and people.

This got me thinking about Nigeria's recent Bromance with Morroco that culminated in series of events, the signing of the Nigeria - Morroco(ostensibly to Europe)

https://www.gem.wiki/Nigeria-Morocco_Gas_Pipeline

Thee sourcing of Phosphate(majorly from Sahrawi Rep. which Nigeria recognises) for Nigeria's Presidential fertilizer initiative.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/03/nigeria-morocco-partner-to-build-1-3bn-fertilizer-plant/

And Morroco's misadventure in the ECOWAS( a move overtly blocked by Nigeria, after an application to join with the green light given from majorly Francophone countries)

https://newafricadaily.com/moroccos-bid-join-ecowas-remains-limbo

Apt!

Nemesis4you:
Hehehe

Peace you say , multiple reports r coming in that Taliban r killing all male members of families and abducting their small daughters / widows / unmarried sisters to be married forcibly to their fighters

Anyways after being brainwashed all these years to fight do you seriously think they will stop fighting ?

Bloodlust and the allure of 72 virgins is something which cannot be turned off as one wishes , have seen it close

They will move to new targets

As much as I would like Afghanistan under the control of the Afgani governent, this as shown in the Taliban's blitzkrieg is unrealistic.

with over $80bn in military aid to the ANA, the Americans have outdone themselves. nobody is going to deploy their troops to occupy Afghanistan forever as history as shown that it's an effort in futility

the Taliban would want legitimacy, that would be a useful tool to keep them in check

SuperSixSeven:
This will be exactly the words other countries are going to say if ISAWP should take over Mali or lake Chad.

scenarios are different in the case, the Taliban has shown that they can come to a political compromise, as shown in the negotiations with the United States and with the local government. no one can stop them now can they? everybody has to adjust to the unfolding realities. As a legitimate government the Taliban can be held to account as they cannot live in economic isolation, Afghanistan is a landlocked country, the Pakistanis would not give overt(or significant covert) support to the Taliban, to the detriment of their relationship with the west.

tutudesz:
Some of Biden's key allies in Congress are warning that a complete U.S. withdrawal will thrust Afghanistan further into chaos and violence. Others say keeping U.S. troops on the ground any longer could spark a backlash among progressives – and American voters – who want to see an end to America's longest war.
Biden cancelled so many bad policies of Trump and accepted the policy of troop withdrawal. Biden is at fault

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tutudesz:
Some of Biden's key allies in Congress are warning that a complete U.S. withdrawal will thrust Afghanistan further into chaos and violence. Others say keeping U.S. troops on the ground any longer could spark a backlash among progressives – and American voters – who want to see an end to America's longest war.
Biden cancelled so many bad policies of Trump and accepted the policy of troop withdrawal. Biden is at fault

well, the Taliban running things in Afghanistan was a matter of when not if. As much as I hate it, the Taliban would bring peace and stability to a country that hasn't seen peace since Antiquity, the pros outways the Cons

tutudesz:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/biden-us-troop-withdrawal-afghanistan/2021/04/13/918c3cae-9beb-11eb-8a83-3bc1fa69c2e8_story.html?outputType=amp

He proposed it to be on an earlier date, May the 1st.

https://eu.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/politics/2021/03/17/us-troop-withdrawal-afghanistan-trumps-deadline-weighs-biden/4667248001/

tutudesz:
Thanks to Biden

This is a Trump era policy.

senior Taliban members, experts and thousands of fighters were released last year as part of a US-brokered ceasefire agreement

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53980978

A decision that has since backfired, as it has helped the Taliban with human capital and expertise.

Nobody expected as capitulation this swift of the ANA, the Taliban would be in Kabul by the end of next month. let's only hope the Taliban keeps to their end of the bargain, preventing the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist holiday resort.

let's just let the people evolve organically, as HDI improves with political and economic stability, ultra-conservative ideas are bound to soften. Democracy and freedom in the west could be perceived as neo-colonial subjugation to a teenage boy in Kandahar

This is definitely not a good time for ISWAP, which is facing an increasing disquiet in Sambisa from remnant JAS fighters. Sources say it suffered an embarrassing defeat on 6 August when it attacked the Bakura Doro and Bakura Sa’alaba-led JAS location on the Lake Chad islands.

Relying on its expertise in bomb making,JAS deployed IEDs to destroy most of ISWAP’s vehicles, forcing it to retreat. This is coming on the heels of the massive disengagement of people associated with JAS in Sambisa and ongoing military ops.

While the military ramps up its pressure on ISWAP, this should be extended to the Lake Chad islands close to Niger, which is the current JAS’s hideout. This is where air raids are important, given the unfavourable terrain for ground troops.

https://twitter.com/Sazedek/status/1424725425020882947?s=19

GeneralFarouq:
Wow, NA and MNJTF offensive might not be like some expected here... But the result it has yielded is tremendous...
Atleast this development has vindicated the military... Not the garri and kulikli report that they are only defending and not attacking.

Lasting peace in southern and central Borno would be a huge achievement if this wave of defections is sustained. The intelligence community would be overwhelmed with HUMINT I'm sure, enemy positions like strategic depots, logistics routes, HVT locations etc intelligence in unprecedented forensic detail

JUST IN: Not less than 70 BOKO HARAM/ISWAP fighters surrendered to the Cameroonian Military yesterday and today. The terrorists also surrendered their weapons and ammunition.


https://twitter.com/eonsintelligenc/status/1424806194242330633?s=19

sanctity454:
The link is not opening

Please use a VPN to access the link, it's a PDF file, I sourced it from Twitter

I'll just post a link to the Tweet

https://twitter.com/jh_barnett/status/1424699488741036038?s=19

Very good read

https:///emg8m9pzSX?amp=1

Salatavor:
Are you trying to tell me the entire bulk of the Nigerian Airforce and Army and Navy is just designed to beat internal and close to border threats. This must be a joke Mr. Are you into comedy? Almost 180,000 men and billions of dollar worth of equipment to fight bandits, Boko Haram and herdsmen yet we still fail? Ha! What you are saying is shameful to the very least. It is unbecoming. I actually thought the Nigerian Army had something better to do, that is why they do not really see Boko Haram as priority. Now I am getting to know that the entire armed forces of the federal republic of Nigeria is indeed focused on Boko Haram and they still wave their erect d1cks about in the face of all their efforts.

You are among the very few odd humans that crave negative attention, what happened to you in your sad boring life? what is it that brings you torment?

joscofelix2:
it will not be bad if civil defence are turn to forest guard. i will love more fund to go to tactical police squad they will be more effective if been fund.sts,psf, IGP swat are know working in the northwest and east

The civil defence could compliment the police as they have manpower shortages, they could be our National guard, or at least that was the purpose for which they were intended.

We can't go from Civil to military response as we have always done, they could be some kind of buffer before deploying the military in internal security issues.

Most curfews are enforced by military personnel, that should not be the case.

All that talk about expanding recruitment when we haven't been able to take care of personnel on the ground is ridiculous IMHO.

It would just further shrink the size of capital expenditure in favour of recurrent expenditure.

Let's give the police the attention that they desperately need

youghs:
IRT has been showing that for years.

A very good example of how funding can improve effectiveness

GeneralFarouq:
NPF has refused to engage themselves fully to any operations except of course under the Military,..
They are not just a prority.
To justify buget allocation, IGP needs to show the government why it expedient they increase their allocation... Either the reasons he gave are not convincing, or other branches are full taking care of it ..
Look at the NAF they are able to convince everybody the need for more additional fighter, isr and attacks platform, hence the continuous reallocation, they even were able to show they needed overhaul of the NAF regiment citing what happened in maiduguri yrs back, hence the continuous heavy allocation...
The reasons NAF must have provided weren't sufficient enough to prioritize them above or equal the armed forces..

I believe we all have our biases sha, I would love the NAF to get more platforms, also NA.

But let's not neglect those which primary duties are internal policing.

Like civil defence who just basically collect salaries, I believe they can do a lot more, if they are the priority of policy makers

joscofelix2:
oga when you add both the supplementary with the military budget the airforce get up to 1bn$check this out

I'm not sure about that, Oga.

GeneralFarouq:
NPF haven't justified such increase

Why do you say so, Sir?

We could see the state of the airforce under Late AVM Alex Badeh RTD launching "airlines" to what they've been able to become today, due the increase in funding.

Wouldn't the police do better if they have more funds? They have the most men(450k) and they are getting a paltry $99m.

RiceProducers:
Airforce was originally N408bn. Someone must have postponed stuff based on what is implementable in a few years.

Yeah, like they did for the JF-17s, it would be interesting to know the items they have one their minds though

youghs:
These guys still haven't learnt the importance of police

I was thinking about the same thing