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020 $a9781138098886$q(hardback)
020 $a1138098884
020 $z9781315104287 (ebook)
035 $a(OCoLC)988381815
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn988381815
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050 00 $aU241$b.O44 2017
082 00 $a355.02/1809669$223
100 1 $aOmeni, Akali,$eauthor.
245 10 $aCounter-insurgency in Nigeria :$bthe military and operations against Boko Haram, 2011-2017 /$cAkali Omeni.
246 3 $aNigeria, the military and operations against Boko Haram, 2011-2017
263 $a1710
264 1 $aAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :$bRoutledge,$c[2017]
300 $a281 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aStudies in insurgency, counterinsurgency and national security
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aCounter-insurgency and the Nigerian military institution -- Organizational culture and historical experience of the military in Nigeria -- Formalized CT-COIN development since the post-civil war period -- Insurgency-COIN military doctrine in Nigeria : theory and practice -- Counter-insurgency plans and operations -- Joint Task Force Operation Restore Order (JTF ORO), 2011 -- 2013 -- North-east COIN plans and operations, 2013 -- 2014 -- North-East and Chad Basin Sub-Regional COIN effort, 2014 -- 2017.
520 8 $aThis book offers a detailed examination of the counterinsurgency operations undertaken by the Nigerian military against Boko Haram between 2011 and 2017. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted with military units in Nigeria, the book 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 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 shed that. Furthermore, the work's analysis of the air force's role in counter-insurgency is unprecedented within the literature on military warfare in Nigeria.
610 20 $aBoko Haram.
610 10 $aNigeria.$bNigerian Army.
650 0 $aCounterinsurgency$zNigeria$xHistory$y21st century.
651 0 $aNigeria$xHistory, Military$y21st century.
830 0 $aStudies in insurgency, counterinsurgency and national security.
852 00 $bleh$hU241$i.O44 2017