BlackBaron:

My bad. All fair and noted.
However if that's what Phase 1 of NA training looks like, then I shudder at what the remaining training courses are... Most of the videos on YouTube are more hazing vs actual useful combatant tips.

bidexiii:


You just confirmed that you don't know what you're talking about; you just want to be heard.

In the military when the leadership is faulty & corrupt it translate to indiscipline through the ranks and files of the command, which was what av be saying and you just confirmed it. Do you just want to spin garbage or your problem is comprehending what av been saying .

Sizzorkay:
Okay bro, you are indeed a slowpoke.
Read my past comments on here. I questioned what ever happened to leadership and who are the men responsible for these units in disarray.
But since you don't seem to be intelligent enough ( Yes i now question your intelligence), i will leave you be.
So lack of leadership translates to indiscipline. Good for Bidex.
Because Henry and myself hammered on this only yesterday, so why are you repeating what I've already said? This man have issues.
Bad leadership, i said this yesterday for pete's sake.
Mr Roundabout.... going in circles thinking you are making sense.
We argued for literally no reason, you just came to the same freaking conclusion i already arrived at since yesterday, smh.
Bye dude, you are obviously too slow to deal with.

bidexiii:



Perhaps both of you are birds of the same feather.
Textbook pokes

Please stay slowpoke and continue displaying your foolishness.

kabe1:

Bidexiii has a very low IQ. That's something i've pointed out on many occasions.

Sizzorkay:
lol, thank you, that means a lot coming from a genius.
Textbook pokes? whatever that means.
At least we know how to read and write. Unlike a certain individual.
Sad for you bro.
Enjoy your day,now pls post some pics...
RIP in peace to the soldiers lost, they deserve better.

CaptainStephen:
Weapons are plain excuses, the truth without any sugar coating is own forces were lax and performed below expectation.
We really need to redeem ourselves.

allexpensive:


This is a factual truth. No weapon, no weapon and those bloody fools carted away huge ammunitions.

I think this has to do with training. Was on a clearance op with my boys which include some army guys and the guys said they wish their ops are being coordinated like this. For over a year been here, my unit never runs from those animals. We have experienced only 4 KIA till now which happened through an ambush on my convoy which lasted for like 5 hours.

Number one mission is to survive. I tried my best to save those lives. Their vehicle was stopped by bht bullets leaving them exposed. It was the normal hilux and the bastards focused fire on the vehicle and my guess is they want it to explode. The officers were defenceless as other vehicles are also under fire. We launched RPG at the fire direction since we had no GL. We fired around 11 RPG that day and these guys started coming out , approaching the pinned vehicle with the motive to abduct my boys. I wasn't my self again but the guys were already wounded.

They were able to go with around 8 wounded officers and started retreating. I initiated pursuit after talking to the boys to boost their morale. ISR established situation for us and had to leave our area for whatever mission. Gathered information together and went for the bastards which unfortunately led to a WIA as they had some guys stationed in the bush to open fire on us but fortunately, it was a little injury. We were able to retried all our boys and had 18 bht killed 4 KIA and 3WIA in total.

bidexiii:



slowpoke I thought you where leaving.

Continue displaying level of foolishness and inconsistency.

kabe1:
Damn this unintelligent Bidexiii guy.

He's commenting with one account and liking his own comment with his second username.

Low IQ and a very low self-esteem.

Sizzorkay:
There is no inconsistency here, Allexpensive just made similar comment, same thing Henry said yesterday.
Troops won't be deployed without arms, if that's the case how come the enemy is always carting away same arms we claim we don't have?
or did BH brought those with them just so they could stage it?
I said before, some units are doing great, some are not.
You just said bad leadership led to indiscipline among some of these soldiers, yet that's the exact same thing we've been saying since yesterday brah. For real?
And no, I'm not leaving, why would i do that? I enjoy your pics too much for that. So no worries, not going anywhere, and i can't even be banned, ain't that weird.
Simply said i wanted to be done arguing with you, but i see you can't let sh!t go.
I'm not your enemy dude, coz at the end of the day, you made same point I already made since yesterday, except you get confused a little bit, that's okay, it happens.
We should ask Allexpensive if he get sent out to fight without magazines or Ammo, since that's part of the narrative some of you are peddling here.

bidexiii:


And who cares if you stay or leave.

Allexpensive scenario was totally defferent, he was on patrol or clearance op's if am right. He was not defending or protecting any ground.

According to what he said they did therr best in suppressing the enemy attack before running out of ammunition and retrieved.

Defending your base where there are ammunition dumps/cache is a defferent ball game , these insurgents will attack you in all directions. The numbers of insurgents who normally carry out ambush mission are usually few when compared to a full invasion on bases where they know that they cart away with ammunition, I av been in such scenarios twice on recovering damaged APCS.

Am in full support that our training and doctrine as to be changed but first thing first; we av to do away with obsolete equipment, boost troops morale while these changes are gaining on.

https://peccaviconsulting./2018/09/17/battle-of-the-fobs-boko-haram-iswaps-2018-rainy-season-offensive-1/

Type of attacks: other than the ambushes in Tarmuwa and Boboshe, all the attacks have been deliberate combined arms attacks with support weapons such as vehicle mounted AAA guns, mortars, improvised rockets and recoilless rifles, as well as dismounts with small arms, RPGs and machine guns. Enemy tactics have varied slightly, with deception being used in some circumstances to gain entry, in others support weapons have been used to suppress the position before attack. However in all cases the enemy uses overwhelming force in their attacks.

Time of attacks: the attacks have mostly been in the evening between 4.00pm and 8.00pm, with some dawn and early morning attacks as well. 5.00pm to 7.30pm appears to be the most popular time range. These timings could be to coincide with evening meals at the FOBs but more likely, to reduce the risk of interference from the NAF. Even if aircraft could scramble immediately it would take them 30-40 minutes to arrive, giving them at most an hour of daylight to acquire and destroy targets. In reality the length of time it takes to request, authorise and task air support means aircraft would generally arrive after nightfall limiting their ability to support friendly troops. The enemy can thus loot the base until early morning and then extract before dawn with their loot.

It is in the opinion of this author that Boko Haram ISWAP has been involved in a thus far successful campaign of spoiling attacks to prevent the establishment of friendly FOBs and prevent friendly forces from dominating the ground. The enemy has focussed on attacking FOBs close to Lake Chad as often as they can with larger scale attacks at range to prevent the bigger FOBs from being established that would support the Lake Chad FOBs.
...

Nigerian military intentions to garrison Northern Yobe and Borno were correct, a successful operation would have reduced enemy freedom of movement and forced them to disperse, fight attritional battles on friendly forces terms or else be confined to a small space where they could be reduced with air power.

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This plan however was poorly executed, failing to anticipate an enemy reaction or adequately prepare sub units to fight aggressive defensive battles.

https://peccaviconsulting./2018/09/27/battle-of-the-fobs-boko-haram-iswaps-2018-rainy-season-offensive-2/

4) The Approach:

Enemy: the enemy generally approaches with vehicles in column with motorcycles on the flanks and circling around the column, at times masquerading as Nigerian forces, in the event they cannot sustain the subterfuge they are generally careful not to molest civilians and warn them to leave.

What does it mean: the enemy must leave its harbour to attack friendly forces, to do this safely they must use a combination of speed, stealth, camouflage and deception. The enemy at this point is once more vulnerable to detection and interdiction.

Friendly forces actions: Friendly forces should be postured to respond to any such approach. Early warning can be given by local villagers, standing patrols, observation points, ISR assets etc. Points should be identified where artillery and indirect fire can be used to neutralise the enemy such as ford or bridges over streams, gaps in walls or berms, road junctions etc.

5) The Attack:

Enemy: The enemy attacks follow a broad pattern of dismounted fighters advancing towards the target engaging the friendly forces whilst crew served weapons mounted on pick ups trucks remain a tactical bound behind the dismounts suppressing friendly positions. Depending on what is available the enemy appears to attempt to bombard the target with mortars, homemade rockets, recoilless rifles or armoured VBIEDs. The dismounts draw fire and waste friendly ammunition, whilst vehicles manoeuvre around the target and suppress friendly strongpoints.

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Conclusion

The enemies tactics, techniques and procedures however present friendly forces with numerous opportunities to defeat this campaign with a more aggressive and well planned counter offensive by:

-Improving SOPs for FOB and area defence
Improved training for commanders and soldiers, particularly in terms of defence, artillery observation, night fighting, patrolling etc
-Revising SOPs to ensure that rapid counter attacks are launched immediately an enemy attack is reported in order to cut off the enemies retreat, recapture a fallen position, attack the enemy while they are attacking the FOB or pursue them to their concentration areas
-Revising training and SOPs to ensure commanders and soldiers are well trained and practice in fighting withdrawals and counter attacks, ensuring they are able to preserve life and equipment and deny any equipment they cannot take with them.
-Reprioritising friendly objectives from just repelling or defeating enemy attacks to destroying any enemy force, by cutting off their retreat, fixing them with fire and manoeuvre, destroying them with concentrated fire from ground, air or artillery and then relentlessly pursuing all survivors.

These however are only one side of the equation, a successful defensive plan simply deters or defeats enemy attacks. The old adage that attack is the best form of defence remains true today, as the enemy is ably demonstrating.

Victory does not come from God, it comes from well planned operations by well trained, well led, properly equipped and disciplined men.

Centrifude:
I KNOW THE STORY OF BANGUI HAS CAUSED A LOT OF ARGUMENTS ON MOST OF THE THREADS HERE.

But in reality I think it's a good example of why it is so important to have reconn teams outside the base.

S.A special forces provided an early warning for our guys, it gave ground commanders time to prepare and set up defensive position around the base and the fact that you don't need sophisticated weaponry and heavy fire power to be able to push your way out of a Brutal ambush or to hold back an enemy that more fighters and weapons than you.

The commanders didn't just sit back and ignore the warnings.

Special forces were the first to detect and engage the Seleka Rebels.

Nigeria Obviously has good S.F units who know the land very well so I still ask myself where are they being used?
Why aren't they running reconn mission in these danger areas?

allexpensive:


This is a factual truth. No weapon, no weapon and those bloody fools carted away huge ammunitions.

I think this has to do with training.

bidex111:





These base is not Melete base, these is Zari attack that happened few months ago.

kabe1:

You are so dumb and well beyond redemption.

Did you not hear that soldier call Metele multiple times in that video.

Why are you so unintelligent? Ntori orlo un!

bidex111:


With or without the ERA added amour the RPG can destroy the T72, depending on where it is been hit. But I doubt if it was an RPG hit.

These MBT where a bonded when the attack started, reliable source has it that most of these tanks are not operational worthy.

Odunayaw:
Thank God you're alive.

Thank you for this brilliant piece.
It's starting to look like it has to do with training. The COAS is busy singing like a canary about how he wants to DOUBLE IN SIZE.
No plans for expanding training Aids nor plans for materiel, nor even simple things like bases the new size would settle in.

Who knows the ratio of Instructors to soldiers at NASI or supplies ratio to the soldiers in training. One thing I respect the CAS for is he works from ground up. Splitting GTC from RTC, building infrastructure to accommodate the desired training. This is lacking in the Army

Its like they fail to plan, and unfortunately its a plan to fail


lastly, you're in my prayers (Although its awkward saying "God keep allexpensive" )