Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria

The Military and Operations against Boko Haram, 2011-2017

Akali Omeni (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

300 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-09888-6 (ISBN)

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This book offers a detailed examination of the counterinsurgency operations undertaken by the Nigerian military against Boko Haram between 2011 and 2017.

This book offers a detailed examination of the counter-insurgency operations undertaken by the Nigerian military against Boko Haram between 2011 and 2017.

Based on extensive fieldwork conducted with military units in Nigeria, Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria has two main aims. First, it seeks to provide an understanding of the Nigerian military’s internal role – a role that today, as a result of internal threats, pivots towards counter-insurgency. The book illustrates how organizational culture, historical experience, institutions, and doctrine, are critical to understanding the Nigerian military and its attitudes and actions against the threat of civil disobedience, today and in the past. The second aim of the book is to examine the Nigerian military campaign against Boko Haram insurgents – specifically, plans and operations between June 2011 and April 2017. Within this second theme, emphasis is placed on the idea of battlefield innovation and the reorganization within the Nigerian military since 2013, as the Nigerian Army and Air Force recalibrated themselves for COIN warfare. A certain mystique has surrounded the technicalities of COIN operations by the Army against Boko Haram, and this book aims to disperse that veil of secrecy. Furthermore, the work’s analysis of the air force’s role in counter-insurgency is unprecedented within the literature on military warfare in Nigeria.

This book will be of great interest to students of military studies, counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism, African politics and security studies in general.

Akali Omeni has a PhD in Defence Studies from Kings College, London.

Introduction PART 1: Counter-Insurgency and the Nigerian Military Institution 1. Organizational Culture and Historical Experience of the Military in Nigeria 2. Formalized CT-COIN Development Since the Post-Civil War Period 3. Insurgency-COIN Military Doctrine in Nigeria: Theory and Practice PART 2: Counter-Insurgency Plans and Operations 4. Joint Task Force Operation Restore Order (JTF ORO), 2011-2013 5. North-East COIN Plans and Operations, 2013-2014 6. North-East and Chad Basin Sub-Regional Coin Effort, 2014-2017 Book Summary

Erscheinungsdatum	23.09.2017
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and National Security
Zusatzinfo	5 Tables, black and white; 13 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	720 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-138-09888-4 / 1138098884
ISBN-13	978-1-138-09888-6 / 9781138098886
Zustand	Neuware