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1st and 2nd pictures are NA stunt paratroopers.

3rd and 4th pictures are NA paratroopers practicing mountain climbing.

Army destroys food recovered from Boko Haram


The Nigerian Army on Friday destroyed 2,000 cartons of dried fish and smoked meat recovered from suspected Boko Haram insurgents.
Col. Tukur Gusau, spokesman for the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, supervised the public destruction of the items in Maiduguri.
Gusau said the items were recovered by the military after different operations in parts of the state.

The cartons of dried fish and smoked meat are believed to have been seized from innocent fishermen and businessmen.
“The smoked meat was suspected to be made from rustled cows by the insurgents, who later sell them at ridiculous amount to finance their terrorists activities,” he said.
Gusau then called on members of the public to continue supporting security agents by reporting any suspicious movement of persons or vehicles loaded with supplies meant for Boko Haram terrorists enclaves.

I am at a loss.
What purpose does it serve to destroy the food??
Why not use it to feed displaced people or refugees??
Surely, a quick toxicology check would clarify if it is safe for consumption?

bidexiii:
Army destroys food recovered from Boko Haram


The Nigerian Army on Friday destroyed 2,000 cartons of dried fish and smoked meat recovered from suspected Boko Haram insurgents.
Col. Tukur Gusau, spokesman for the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, supervised the public destruction of the items in Maiduguri.
Gusau said the items were recovered by the military after different operations in parts of the state.

The cartons of dried fish and smoked meat are believed to have been seized from innocent fishermen and businessmen.
“The smoked meat was suspected to be made from rustled cows by the insurgents, who later sell them at ridiculous amount to finance their terrorists activities,” he said.
Gusau then called on members of the public to continue supporting security agents by reporting any suspicious movement of persons or vehicles loaded with supplies meant for Boko Haram terrorists enclaves.

rugged7:
I am at a loss.
What purpose does it serve to destroy the food??
Why not use it to feed displaced people or refugees??
Surely, a quick toxicology check would clarify if it is safe for consumption?

Hmmmn those BH Bois are devils incarnate : it might av being poisoned?

bidexiii:
Hmmmn those BH Bois are devils incarnate : it might av being poisoned?

They can take samples for testing before destroying them.

That's too much waste. Considering the hungry IDPs we already have.

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WHY THE ARMED FORCES FAIL AT COIN


The armed forces can, despite their relative strengths in terms of manpower, firepower and other resources, fail at effectively neutralising and destroying an armed insurgency. The reasons for these failures include, inter alia, the following:

1.     Lack of support: When the armed forces are tasked to respond to an insurgency, they need maximum government support to achieve mission-success. This support extends beyond mere political and moral support but also in terms of providing it with the equipment and resources it requires. A lack of support from government will result in a lack of determination from the armed forces to accomplish their mission. Similarly, a lack of support from the local populace will cost the armed forces dearly in terms of manpower, intelligence, national support and may result in the populace giving support to the insurgents.

2.     Lack of intelligence: A lack of sound and credible intelligence at the strategic level will impede the armed forces’ strategy to counter the coming insurgency whilst at the operational and tactical levels it will restrict the armed forces’ efforts to plan and execute effective COIN operations. Intelligence must provide clear options on where, when and how actions can be conducted and with what force levels. Misappreciating the enemy will result in poor plans and efforts to locate and destroy the enemy and add to the enemy’s momentum. Additionally, a lack of intelligence will lead to unclear and vague orders. A lack of intelligence also prevents knowing the enemy – a crucial factor in defeating the enemy.

3.     Poor strategies: Poor strategies – and a subsequent lack of relentless strategic thinking - are not only the result of a lack of intelligence but also due to an inflexible, non-adaptive approach to formulating strategy.  The inability to formulate a strategy that attacks the insurgent forces over both a wide and a deep front will cost the armed forces in terms of domination, momentum, initiative and success. Additionally, operational developments must never drive strategy although operational developments can lead to an adjustment of strategy. Poor strategies also result in “mission creep”.

4.     Belief: An over-confident belief in their own abilities coupled to a belief that the enemy is inferior, poorly trained, ill equipped and operating with poor leadership will place the armed forces at a disadvantage of their own making. This misguided, at times arrogant belief can result in the armed forces suffering tactical defeats at the hands of the insurgents. In a COIN conflict, relative strengths is not a decisive factor.

5.     Lack of preparation: If the armed forces are not correctly prepared in terms of training and equipment, they will remain ineffective and reactive. Using incorrect doctrine, TTPs, approaches and equipment are indicative of a lack of preparation.

6.     Poor training: Conventional TTPs are not always relevant to COIN operations. Training must be mission-specific and aimed at allowing the armed forces to “out guerrilla” the insurgents. This requires an in-depth knowledge of the enemy and his TTPs. Initiative, adaptability and flexibility must be emphasised in training. Command and control must be decentralised.

7.     Foreign intervention: Foreign intervention must be viewed with caution as Africa has witnessed numerous interventions by foreign forces in COIN situations, only to see the insurgent activities escalate. Where foreign forces intervene in support of government COIN operations, their interests need to be clearly defined and understood. Similarly, foreign NGOs, despite their utterances, do not always wish to see an end to the conflicts as such will result in their reason for existence being questioned as well as a reduction in their income.

8.     Neglect of principles: By neglecting the principles of COIN whilst ignoring the principles employed by the insurgents, the armed forces posture themselves incorrectly and give the initiative to the insurgent forces.

9.     Expected to govern: The armed forces are not trained, prepared and equipped to fulfil the role of government and the civil service. This results in the misguided belief that the armed forces must conduct “hearts-and-minds” operations as opposed to destroying the enemy. Whereas the armed forces must create the climate in which government can function ie do its job, expecting them to govern is giving the insurgency new impetus to continue.

10.  Collateral damage: Unnecessary collateral damage to the populace creates resentment, anger and even a desire for revenge. Collateral damage is also perceived by the populace to represent government policy and, as such, breeds a deeper desire to replace government, in turn swelling the ranks of the insurgency.  Collateral damage will, furthermore, reduce the support of the populace towards the armed forces.

11.  Disrespect and maltreatment:  A lack of respect towards the populace, their property, culture, traditions and religions will breed resentment towards the armed forces. As with collateral damage, disrespect and maltreatment, along with an unwillingness to defend and protect the populace, will be viewed as government policy and reduce any support the populace may have towards the armed forces.

12.  Incorrect approach: COIN forces’ primary mission is to conduct enemy-focussed (enemy-centric) operations. By altering the mission of closing with and destroying the enemy in favour of population-centric missions, presents the armed insurgent with numerous advantage as well as the initiative. Disregarding indirect approaches will not favour the armed forces. Agility, flexibility, manoeuvre and relentless aggression must be part of the approach.

13.  Constraints: The armed forces are faced with numerous constraints when conducting a COIN campaign. These include poorly formulated Rules of Engagement, international interference (often aimed at assisting the insurgent forces), UN mandates that counter-act the actions of the armed forces and so forth. Unnecessary constraints prohibit the armed forces from achieving mission-success and can severely impact on morale.

14.  Poor discipline: Poor discipline in executing tactics as well as in relation to obeying commands is indicative of poor training and a lack of leadership. Fire-discipline and when necessary restraint, requires discipline as does the immediate execution of orders. Poor discipline will also manifest itself in the armed forces behaviour towards the populace in the form of rape, theft, assault and so forth.

15.  Inappropriate doctrine: Conventional warfare doctrine does not serve as a template for COIN doctrine. Doctrine is guided by experience, intelligence and the terrain. A failure to develop an appropriate doctrine and to continually assess and adapt it to ensure its relevance will place the armed forces at a disadvantage.

16.  Lack of flexibility: Rigid, inflexible operational plans can lead to disaster, especially when senior officers refuse to adapt their plans to cope with an ever-changing environment and situation. This lack of flexibility is often the result of a lack of knowledge and understanding of the insurgent or his strategy.

17.  Lack of motivation: Poor training, along with a lack of discipline, leadership and equipment will impact negatively on the morale of the armed forces. Demoralised armed forces will lack the motivation to achieve their mission.

18.  Lack of resources: A lack of resources, especially tactical airlift and special weapons can render a well-intentioned and aggressive armed force powerless against the insurgents. A lack of resources can also indicate a government’s lack of faith in its armed forces or even a concern by the government that the armed forces may use their equipment to threaten government.

19.  Not understanding the OE: Failing to understand the operating environment will ultimately result in mission-failure. Terrain, weather, demographics, vegetation and infrastructure all influence the operating environment. Similarly, weapons and equipment are determined by the OE. At the operational and tactical levels, failure to exploit the OE will result in the armed forces surrendering the initiative to the insurgents.

20.   When politicians make the plans: It is not unheard of that politicians want to determine and dictate military strategy as well as influence military operations. These misguided beliefs on their military prowess will hamper the armed forces and afford the insurgents numerous advantages. Politicians are not trained in generalship and the art of war. Instead, they must set the guidelines and policies for war and support the armed forces to execute their mission(s).

Perhaps the greatest danger the populace face is when the government does not trust its armed forces and the armed forces, in turn, do not trust the government. This can result in internal struggles in which the populace will have to choose sides to survive.

Both governments and their armed forces can be successful in combating an armed insurgency if they negate the above reasons for failure and jointly cooperate to defeat the threat.


By Eeben barlow

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1st,2nd and 3rd pictures are captured BH; artillery and HMG, ZSU -23-4 Gun and a vickers eagle MBT respectively.

4th picture us a destroyed NA mowag APC.

NA AMPHIBIOUS TRAINING SCHOOL PICTURES.

I like this thread,its way more sane than most military thread i've visited

stanley59:
I like this thread,its way more sane than most military thread i've visited

Tnks man

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Al-Shabab Militants Seize Towns in Somalia after AU Retreat


Al-Shabab militants seized two southern Somalian towns from retreating African Union forces Saturday, days after a deadly militant attack on an AU base in the same area killed dozens of Ugandan soldiers, Somali authorities said.

Lower Shabelle region Deputy Governor Abdifitah Haji Abdulle, told VOA's Somali service that troops from the African Union Mission in Somalia, or AMISOM, had withdrawn from a key military base at El Salindi, 60 kilometers south of Mogadishu. He also said AMISOM forces retreated Friday from the town of Kunturwarey.

A local official said he had been informed by AMISOM that the militants entered the town few hours after security forces left. He said some residents started fleeing and described others as shocked and gripped with fear that militants would kill civilians.

Separately Saturday, an AMISOM convoy was targeted with a car bomb outside the nearby town of Jannaale.

Militants said they had killed several soldiers in the attack, a claim that VOA could not verify by late Saturday. AMISOM has not commented.

But local official Abdifitah Haji Abdulle told VOA at least one civilian had been killed and three others had been wounded.


Uganda confirmed Thursday that 12 of its troops attached to AMISOM had been killed when al-Shabab militants raided an AU base in Jannaale.

Ugandan military spokesman Paddy Akunda said the attack was a "game changer" and al-Shabab should expect an "appropriate response" from Ugandan soldiers in Somalia.

In June, al-Shabab attacked another AMISOM base in the same region, killing more than 50 soldiers from Burundi.

AMISOM soldiers have been fighting al-Shabab in Somalia since 2007. AMISOM forces and Somali troops have recaptured large parts of Somalia from the al-Qaida-linked militants in recent years, but attacks have continued.

Picture below are;
Uganda army soldiers at a military airbase in Entebbe carry the caskets containing the remains of Ugandan soldiers who were killed in Somalia this week, September 3, 2015.

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1st picture is AFRICAN UNION forces in a MRAP APC.

2nd picture is an El-shabab militants firing a HMG.

FLASH/GORE IMAGES

DEADLY ATTACK ON UGANDA AU POST.

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May there souls R.I.P

Oga Bidexii u fit remove the pics of the dead soldiers? imagine say na our naija boys be that. I take God beg u eh no gud for eye at all. The link to the video for better pass.

Thank u for the good work na everyday i dey follow u and Henry thread as e be say beegeaglesblog don almost die.

Nigeria: Arms Purchase - Buratai Sets Up Panel to Probe His Predecessors


There is palpable tension in the military while fear has gripped loyalists and former aides of Chiefs of Army Staff who held sway from 2010 to May 20, 2015. This follows the setting up of a panel by Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, to probe his predecessors over how billions of dollars were spent on arms purchase and logistics during their tenure.

Vanguard was told, weekend, that the army boss, who took over from Lt.0-Gen. KTJ Minimah, decided to institute the investigation panel after carrying out a preliminary inventory of army weaponry needed to combat the Boko Haram menace and other security challenges, and discovered that what was available was a far cry from what should have been in stock.

Consequently, Vanguard gathered that the eight-man panel headed by a Brigadier General with four Colonels and three Lieutenant Colonels as members will investigate all armament equipment most of which were denominated in dollars, including armoured tanks, artillery weaponry and other logistics bought by the Nigerian Army from 2010 to 2015.

Since the outbreak of the violent Boko Haram insurgency in 2009, the Federal Government had consistently increased budgetary provisions for the army on a yearly basis with a view to acquiring sophisticated weapons, logistic support and needed training to ensure the security challenges were tackled.


Terms of reference

The panel is expected to go round all the army's armament depots across the country, take inventory of specific arms, compare types and quality of arms with actual recommendation, approval and amount of money released for the purchase as well as what was bought.

In doing this, the panel is to find out the names of the contractors who executed the jobs and supplied the equipment and at what cost. The panel will also ascertain why some of the arms purchase contracts whose monies have been collected were not done and at what level those implementing contracts have reached.

Expatiating more on the investigation, the source said there is no link between the probe being carried out by the Chief of Army Staff and the general probe ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari whose committee is sitting at the office of the National Security Adviser.

Other reasons Vanguard gathered which influenced the decision of General Buratai to set up the investigation panel, include revelations which came out during the battle to dislodge Boko Haram terrorists that subsequently led to thousands of soldiers deserting their commission and so many abandoning their duty posts and running away from terrorists.

It was gathered that many of the weapons failed to respond in the frontline, armoured tanks broke down while many could not shoot. Aside this, many logistics equipment deployed refused or failed to work in very critical periods where soldiers were face-to-face with armed terrorists.

In some cases, there are documentation showing that some of the arms were purchased and have been taken to certain locations but these arms are nowhere to be found and nobody could render account.

The panel is expected to complete its assignment and submit its report to the Chief of Army Staff by November.

bidexiii:
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Bidexiii, you should not be posting photos of dead Soldiers. It just isn't right at all !!! It is disrespectful and puts to rubbish the efforts of these brave gallant Soldiers.

Please don't do that.

Henry120:
Bidexiii, you should not be posting photos of dead Soldiers. It just isn't right at all !!! It is disrespectful and puts to rubbish the efforts of these brave gallant Soldiers.

Please don't do that.

Thank you, please remove them.

Henry120:
Bidexiii, you should not be posting photos of dead Soldiers. It just isn't right at all !!! It is disrespectful and puts to rubbish the efforts of these brave gallant Soldiers.

Please don't do that.

Sorry you feel it is rubbish to you !, yes they are gallant soldiers and they fought bravely. But those pictures are every where; defence blogs /internet media.

And moreover it's a raw thread; battle fronts and CION picture and video!

Lastly the pictures is not intended to downgrade the efforts of joint military coalition, if such content is intended towards negative intention then youtube should be shot down because there are uncountable videos of such organization showing "gore/flash content"

bidexiii:
Sorry you feel it is rubbish to you !, yes they are gallant soldiers and they fought bravely. But those pictures are every where; defence blogs /internet media.

And moreover it's a raw thread; battle fronts and CION picture and video!

Lastly the pictures is not intended to downgrade the efforts of joint military coalition, if such content is intended towards negative intention then youtube should be shot down because there are uncountable videos of such organization showing "gore/flash content"

I did not say it was rubbish( of-course sharing terror videos is).


I said you are rubbishing the gallantry of AMISOM troops posted in Somalia (of which there are over 200 Nigerian Police officers serving in that mission), by spreading terrorist propaganda.


The photos been everywhere does not excuse the fact that you are aiding terrorist propaganda by sharing their content. It simply doesn't. You instead should have taken a conscious decision to not aid in spreading these videos/ contents.


It doesn't matter what you call the title of the thread, spreading terrorist propaganda is abhorable. I don't spread terrorist videos/pictures or whatever in my thread, because I want to also defeat the terrorist and their ideologies not to assist them in spreading fear!


Youtube/Twitter/ Facebook all act against terrorist content all the time. They ban terrorist accounts on a regular basis. They act enough, however they cannot possibly track/stop each and every terrorist nut-job from posting terror videos/accounts. Hence they add a feature that allow users report these contents.

Henry120:
I did not say it was rubbish( of-course sharing terror videos is).


I said you are rubbishing the gallantry of AMISOM troops posted in Somalia (of which there are over 200 Nigerian Police officers serving in that mission), by spreading terrorist propaganda.


The photos been everywhere does not excuse the fact that you are aiding terrorist propaganda by sharing their content. It simply doesn't. You instead should have taken a conscious decision to not aid in spreading these videos/ contents.






It doesn't matter what you call the title of the thread, spreading terrorist propaganda is abhorable. I don't spread terrorist videos/pictures or whatever in my thread, because I want to also defeat the terrorist and their ideologies not to assist them in spreading fear!


Youtube/Twitter/ Facebook all act against terrorist content all the time. They ban terrorist accounts on a regular basis. They act enough, however they cannot possibly track/stop each and every terrorist nut-job from posting terror videos/accounts. Hence they add a feature that allow users report these contents.

It's like you are not getting what am saying yet, there are different perspective in which we human being view multifacet issues like these and I don't get what you mean by " am rubbishing AMISON war in the central Africa. Then what do you want to say about giant media cooperation that broadcast such news and images on there channels and cctv. And to be precise cctv news for example!

There is a harsh realty of war that we do want to face! Gallant men and innocent souls die in war. And apart from internet media, it's All over cctv and cnn news. @ henry there is no rubbishing in those pictures in Anyway or form!

bidexiii:
It's like you are not getting what am saying yet, there are different perspective in which we human being view multifacet issues like these and I don't get what you mean by " am rubbishing AMISON war in the central Africa. Then what do you want to say about giant media cooperation that broadcast such news and images on there channels and cctv. And to be precise cctv news for example!

There is a harsh realty of war that we do want to face! Gallant men and innocent souls die in war. And apart from internet media, it's All over cctv and cnn news. @ henry there is no rubbishing in those pictures in Anyway or form!

CNN, CCTV, BBC and not even Aljazeera show gory images of dead soldiers.

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3rd and 4th pictures ; loading armament to a ZSU-23-4 Shilka gun and inside a drivers compartment of a ZSU-23-4 Shilka ,respectively.

Henry120:
CNN, CCTV, BBC and not even Aljazeera show gory images of dead soldiers.

Yes Cctv did show the pictures but they blued the images and the source they got it from!