₦airaland Forum

Whyem15:
The PR they will be crazy this week but PR won't get them anything other than a few more recruits and humiliation for the Nigerian army (sadly you can't shame the shameless). A Lt. Col died in the attack, may his soul rest in peace.

Until we stop giving them opportunity to rest after every attack, they will keep coming. Supercamps are good but will only result in huge casualties without a strike force.

Litmus:
www.nairaland.com/attachments/13448596_img20210426043458_jpeg84c0c649b59a41f83dad0ac8e004885f

Why does this repeatedly happen? Why aren’t Nigeria military in all outpost, great and small, adopting the policy of mandating that all returning or approaching military parties must stop 50 mitres – more or less – from base and await permission to proceed? Usually permission to proceed is given after a single personnel from the approaching patrol, convoy, etc walks up to the soldiers at the base for id verification.

Litmus:
www.nairaland.com/attachments/13448596_img20210426043458_jpeg84c0c649b59a41f83dad0ac8e004885f

Why does this repeatedly happen? Why aren’t Nigeria military in all outpost, great and small, adopting the policy of mandating that all returning or approaching military parties must stop 50 mitres – more or less – from base and await permission to proceed? Usually permission to proceed is given after a single personnel from the approaching patrol, convoy, etc walks up to the soldiers at the base for id verification.

Valkrie:
Bro...the army have been zoombified to think in certain ways which civilians don't, I'm sorry to say....! With all the battlefield coordinatuon by the army what have they been able to achieve so far, more than 12 years and counting...!! Look back to history..all difficult wars have been won when the civilians decides to get armed and fight for their land or get involved..!! When the Israeli soldiers crossed the Suez canal and the Egyptian soldiers all ran away it was the civilian militia in the town that drove off the Israeli soldiers...many of their abandoned war tank are still their till today...!! ISIS/boko/al shabab etc no matter how you look at them are all civilain militia and look at what they doing to the more coordinated army for years...Not even the almighty Russian and american american army could bring down the Talibans...!!

See bro the Algerians learn the usefulness and power of the civilians in early 90's when they where having issues similar to ours now...what they did was to arm the civilians...madness for madness and the killings stopped and Algeria got her peace today...their remnant are the once their militart is cleaning up today...!!

Trust me.if the civilians decides to carry arms and enter a war...their would be change in the equation...!!

jpphilips:
Say no to drugs!!

Xbee007:
I think I need to take a break from Nigeria news for a while. Sad news upon terrible news.

Toju200:
The incident was quite sad the Blue in blue strike got me...
NAF mistakenly hit the reinforcement heading towards Maionk
Very terrible..
Lack of comms
Omo e weak me...

SamuelAnyawu:
It has been sleepless nights here

Toju200:
The incident was quite sad the Blue in blue strike got me...
NAF mistakenly hit the reinforcement heading towards Maionk
Very terrible..
Lack of comms
Omo e weak me...

Xbee007:
I can't even imagine the kind of PTSD our soldiers will be suffering from now.

Whyem15:
Good advice; the best time to leave is now, the second best time is by the end of the month. The last 10 days of Ramadan may be very bloody.

I don't know much about the civil-military relationships in the northeast but one of the things that makes military abandon civilians is if the civilians have refused to cooperate with the military or are sabotaging the military's effort or are cooperating with the enemy. The first responsibility of any officer is to protect his troops and in any of the above scenarios, a good officer will rather opt to protect his troops.
The governor should work with the military command in the state to improve relationships and how the military and civilians can benefit from each other. The people should know that when they help the military, their town will never fall. This I think distinguish towns in Southern Borno and yobe from those of Central Borno.

Whyem15:
Everything we've discussed in this forum over the years were key to this disaster. Lack of communications, lack of situational awareness, lack of coordination, siting in bases waiting for the terrorists to come attack so that you can repel etc.
The damage has been done, the next thing to do is to find solutions.
Ordinarily, all the troops involved in the battle should be redeployed, they are no longer fit for combat and in need of psychological help.

Communication would have prevented the airstrike on reinforcing troops but may not have prevented the terrorists from disguising as troops to get close enough to wreck havoc. Forcing the enemy to be on defense would have prevented most of this though.
Things are changing in NA but far too slow to see the war over anytime soon.

SamuelAnyawu:
When a pilot jets out from Maiduguri to a location to assist the Army during an attack, Do these pilots communicate with the ground troops or Maiduguri command centre?

SamuelAnyawu:
I’ve just told my Organisation I can’t wait again to travel 3 days to festivity. I’ve readjusted it to 10days.

I can barely sleep properly. We are all scared of where might be the next attack

JOSCOFELIX:
the nigeria airforce made a great mistake today. killing 13 sf. made soul of the faithful departed rest in peace. iswap will not have overrun the base if the nigeria airforce did not made a mistake of hiting the wrong target

ugo4u:
The wings of the pilot and his copilot will be clipped after debriefing. The error is just too fatal, it will demoralise the boots on ground. Big Time!!

yoged:
No proper communication , no proper coordination. Its obvious . I remembered when air force bomb IDP some years back.

JohnEagle96:
Nigeria army Comms has been compromised, intelligence brigade needs to step in .
by the way is there no confirmation of target , to determine their properties, characters, before strike ? am confused o @toju200,whyhem15