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Isn't going to be rainy season soon in north east Nigeria?
Meaning the military will be constrained?
Looking at the pattern of attacks, I can't shake the horrible thought that ISWAP is trying to encircle Maiduguri, cutting it off from support should they attack it just before the rainy season.

@Odunayaw

Upgraded FireForce?

https://peccaviconsulting./2021/04/03/naf-air-ground-task-force/

demolition:

If that wasn't enough, ISWAP in Nigeria even collects and distributes Zakat, with photos aiming to show them as a group fully able to govern. Like I said earlier, ISWAP wants to fill the security vacuum in the areas with no government control and Zakat is a primary example of it.




Source: Tomasz Rolbiecki
https://twitter.com/TomaszRolbiecki/status/1391300815780986880?s=19



In this regards, when you neglect the people so much. The enemy starts looking sexy.

I saw these images in the recent ISWAP release of photos showing daily life in areas they control.
Decided not to post them here and give these arseholes the publicity they crave.
They even go on patrols around "their" territory as if they were a real army!
This is all so maddening.

Thanks to everyone who's replied. I'll reply comprehensively tomorrow. I'll just leave these questions, which elucidate why I thought SCS was wrong:

1) if the distance between Super Camps is, say 200km and there's no FOB in-between, won't the bad guys fill that vacuum?

2) patrols between these Super Camps now take longer and involve more troops; ergo more predictable and enticing targets for the bad guys?

3) civilians in the dead space are now at the mercy of bad guys, and have no choice but be taxed and cooperate, no?

4) the enemy is free to build up his strength?

5) the military has no civilian collaborators to feed it intelligence?

Just a few reasons why reinforced garrisons have never worked throughout history. As I said, I'd like to hear from the people who thought, and still think SCS is a good idea.

Let me try this again, as this is a battlefield discussion thread.
Previously, I listed the reasons why I think the Super Camp Strategy (SCS) is not good and doomed to failure. Nobody offered counter arguments, yet people here continue expressing their support for SCS. So I'll change tack:

Other than reducing military casualties, what other advantages does SCS offer, operationally and tactically?

For the month of April, ISWAP attacks in Nigeria, Niger and Chad.

Xbee007:
Where is Bulabulin? Is that in Nigeria?

Yes.

From the attack on Kanamma:
Otokar Cobra, ERC-90 Sagaie, Steyr 4K APC destroyed, about 5 gun trucks carted away.

Something has to give; things just can't continue like this.

This is worrying. Civilians in Geidam milling about, seemingly unperturbed by the presence of these barbarians.

From the ISWAP attack on Bulabulin.
5 gun trucks, about 19 motorcycles, 2 transport trucks carted away.

iboboyswag:
I swear... You just smell that it was corruption that lead to the purchases from different vendors.

There has never anywhere in the world been an arms deal that was clean.
But post acquisition, one should aim for least-cost, maximum efficiency of whatever assets.

An example: A car rental company like Avis, with 100 Hyundai will pay a fraction -which they'll pass on to customers- for spares than what the NA will pay for its 10/15 South Korean vehicles.

And then factor in the mechanics and technicians to be trained for all the different vehicles. The whole thing just doesn't make any sense to me.

So many different assets in small batches of 10, 20 or 50, I pity whomever heads up Logistics in the Nigerian military.

Odunayaw:
You should stop smoking gun powder

Gunpowder or crack? Which is more damaging?

When the Quarter-master says, "I have some crater bombs in my stores that are about to expire. Would anybody like to take them and go play?"

kabe1:
The Oliver Hazard Perry-class Frigates are hand me downs from America.

With the Egyptian military controlling more than 50% of the Egyptian economy, including gifts from rich Gulf states, they can afford to afford a lot of military equipment.

However despite the investment in hundreds of fighter jets and helicopters security in the Saini and ISIS are running rampant.

Precisely why, of all the north African countries, Algeria is the only one I take seriously.

Yagz:
Egypt's millitary 'sugar daddies' in the form of UAE and Saudi Arabia? Boy I'm cracking up with laughter!!!

Serioulsy though I'm green with envy - and looking forward to Nigeria one day hopefully acquiring such helpful millitary 'sugar daddies/mummies'- lol!

The day will come when Egypt will have to make a foreign policy decision that advances her interests in opposition to the GCC patrons. Then the funds might dry up and maintenance of such disparate assets might become a right royal pain in the tuchus.

$1.3 billion a year in US military aid, plus sugar daddies in the UAE and Saudi, and Egypt's navy can stroll in the Mediterranean thus:

3× Type-209/1400mod submarines
2× Type-033 Romeo-class submarines
2× Mistral LHDs
2× FREMM Bergamini-class frigates
1× FREMM Aquitaine-class frigate
2× Gowind-class corvettes
2× Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates

Space entrepreneur Max Polyakov acquires South Africa’s Dragonfly satellite maker


Max Polyakov, an ultra-wealthy entrepreneur with ambitions of building a space transportation empire, has acquired South African satellite maker Dragonfly Aerospace, he told Reuters.

The deal gives Polyakov an anchorpoint in the booming but fiercely competitive market for small-satellite technology, and a potential revenue source for rocket maker Firefly Aerospace, which is majority-owned by Polyakov’s Noosphere Ventures investment.

The acquisition comes amid a frenzy of capital infusions and blank-check deal-making around a new breed of firms building miniaturized launch systems to cash in on the exponential growth of compact satellites needing a ride to orbit in the coming years.

Among them, Polyakov’s Dragonfly aims to build up to 48 satellites per year for commercial and civil space customers. For example, Dragonfly develops satellite cameras for Earth Observing Systems Data Analytics, which is owned by Polyakov’s Menlo Park, California-based Noosphere Ventures.

https://www.defenceweb.co.za/aerospace/civil-aviation/space-entrepreneur-max-polyakov-acquires-south-africas-dragonfly-satellite-maker/

bidexiii:
I doubt if these T-55's are still operational.

In the video released by ISWA on the attack,
that tank is operational.

Nemesis4you:
Well thats awkward

Afaik in SFF each vikas battalion has approx 800 members

Nothing awkward at all. The SAS Regiment, the grandpapa of all SF units, has never had the numbers that make up a "regiment".

Why do people think normal terms apply to SF?
An SF "battalion" is never any such as understood by an infantry battalion.
4 sections of x men form a platoon; 4 platoons of x men form a company; 4 companies of x men form a battalion.

In SF that could be 70 men forming a battalion.

Just saying.

arantess:
Lol, atleast they are better than the golden company with their shiny armor and 2 star services..

Donian007:
The statement also quoted the Secretary of State as saying that he was pleased to make Nigeria part of his “first virtual visit to Africa.”

We all know this is not true; the US knows it, Aso Rock knows it, and the African continent knows it.
Calls made by the Biden Administration to world leaders are catalogued on the various administration websites for all the world to see. Hell, Kenya, DR Congo (admittedly because DRC is current AU president) got calls.

From Biden, Secretary Blinken, NSA Sullivan etc.

Toju200:
Under ‘Surveillance Equipment,’ the document quoted 20 units of Ground Surveillance Radar equipment – Reutech ($7,041,245.91)...

LTGEN:
The Ground Surveillance Systems ( Radar) Reutech would most likely come S’ Africa.

Yep, the Reutech RSR 904 can detect people, animals and vehicles at a distance of 20km, day and night in all weather.

Presidents Bouteflika (Algeria), Meles (Ethiopia), Obasanjo (Nigeria) and Mbeki (South Africa) were instrumental in crafting the AU position which stressed cooperation with Africom, but no permanent HQ on African soil.

I wonder what the small states - which wanted to host the HQ but were bullied by the big ones - are thinking right now.

fabselad:
Bro do you have the following series from helion publishers: Africa@war, african migs. volume 1 & 2, middle east & war

Go here:

https://www.warbooks.co.za/

Odunayaw:
Oga which one is this aggression

I have another book for your collection: the war journal of Bravo Coy + Anti Tank Platoon of 61 Mech Bn in 1987( 760 pages + 1400 full colour pics - about 250MB)
The download link will be shut off on 30 April.

https://archive.org/details/bravo-journal/mode/2up

Covert1:
Yes and No. You use languages that confuse them. Most here won't comprehend capacity or the difference with that and capability. I go this length to say that because it is you. You love your country but most people here don't take too kindly that it is a plausible reality for Nigeria.

But they are stealth, capable of surface, air and underwater warfare and can be quickly retrofitted with missiles in a high intensity conflict with a peer Naval power. However we are not going to be chasing pirates with expensive to maintain frigates on a lean budget. The P18Ns are very adequate and great assets. Actually OPVs are the darling of Navies worldwide and we have them.

Conversing with yourself, again?

Odunayaw:
you're setting yourself up

Let them come. I'm working from home this week and can do with the amusement.
LOL!

shadowprimezero:
Dunno if you saw the claim by Joscofelix that NAF had not only received RAAD-II nuclear cruise missiles with the JF-17, but had deployed and used it against bandits just a few hours after the JF-17 was delivered. Oh, and he somehow had the security clearance from NAF to gain him access into TAC Makurdi to see the jets even before NAF top brass did

I did. And when I pointed out the RAAD' genesis, and how it wasn't even in production, his fans pointed me to how South Africa was not perfect.
As if I, a South African, didn't know this.

Augustine, covert1, supreme whatever , ssbn , and now joscoflex.
The common denominator: fantastical tales, claims of insider info and chest beating. Minor variations in syntax notwithstanding.

Odunayaw:
Why do I feel like someone opened that account to air his mind without fear of being "caught"

Yagz, whom I suspect is the same Yagazie found on the erstwhile Beegeagle and now Defenceweb and other reputable defence sites, would not take too kindly to an imposter.
Besides, those of us who come across his musings know the writing style.

By the way, whom did you think had cloned the moniker?

I think we should all rejoice this current cesspit of intellectual mediocrity has attracted such an intellect.