Insurgency and War in Nigeria: Regional Fracture and the Fight Against Boko Haram
Autor Akali Omenien Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 dec 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781788311281
ISBN-10: 1788311280
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1788311280
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Author has spent research time with the Nigerian army's counterinsurgency effort.
Notă biografică
Akali Omeni (PhD, Kings College London) is Lecturer at the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St Andrews, UK. He was previous a Lecturer in African Politics at the University of Leicester, UK. He has previously worked with the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and was co-chair of the Africa Research Group at King's College London (affiliated to their world-leading War Studies department). In 2019, Omeni won the prestigious "Rising Star" excellence award at King's College London. His other previously published books include Policing and Politics in Nigeria.
Cuprins
PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction Part I: The Insurgent Chapter 1. Boko Haram's Formative Years, Ideology and Transitioning to ViolenceChapter 2. The 2009 Troubles in North-East Nigeria and Abu Shekau's EmergenceChapter 3. 2016 - 2019: Boko Haram, Abu Mus'ab Al-Barnawi and Islamic State's West Africa Province (ISWAP)Part II: The EnvironmentChapter 4. The Terrestrial Environment as a Force-MultiplierChapter 5. The North-East Nigeria Border Environment: Cameroon, Chad and NigerChapter 6. The Non-Physical Environment to Boko Haram's InsurgencyPart III: The Campaign Chapter 7. A Resilient Threat: Boko Haram's Military and Organisational SophisticationChapter 8. Suicide Bombing and Guerrilla Warfare: Boko Haram's Covert FrontPart IV: The Counter-Insurgency Challenge (Theory and Practice)Chapter 9. War and the COIN Challenge (Theory) Annexe to Chapter nine: 2019 Update Conclusion: So, Why Has the Nigerian Army Struggled Against Boko Haram?NotesIndex
Recenzii
Omeni's highly original study focuses ... on [explaining] the group's success over the last few decades as a fighting force. ...The book also includes a useful discussion of the group's relationship with the Islamic State.
[The book is] without doubt essential reading, offering substantial and empirically grounded insights on this feared group to scholars, policy-makers, military planners and strategists, and practitioners.
A well-informed, valuable analysis of Boko Haram's military and ideological evolution, the environment facilitating these processes, and Nigerian security forces counterinsurgency challenges . Akali Omeni has produced a wide-ranging and insightful book that provides a detailed analysis of a resilient insurgent threat and the efforts undertaken to counter it.
Omeni combines emotional access, journalistic integrity and intellectual rigour to produce an important and necessary book about this under-rated, and little understood insurgency which remains the biggest threat to the most powerful black nation in the world. He has written it with great attention to little known details, proving invaluable, often ignored insights into the insurgency, the military and the region.
"This original and insightful book explains why the Nigerian military has struggled to contain the rise of Boko Haram - a highly resilient insurgency in West Africa, that has evolved from terrorist roots to develop regular military forces, hold territory, and ally with Islamic State. An important addition to the comparative study of counterinsurgency failure."
"This is an extensive examination of the Boko Haram insurgency, including the group's military capabilities and strategies and the nature of the Nigerian counterinsurgency response. The book charts the evolution of a seemingly non-violent sect into a deadly jihadi force that has sustained a decade-long conflict. It makes for essential reading because of its unique insight into the operational nature of the Boko Haram conflict."
"This is a deep and well researched book highlighting the challenges faced by the Nigerian military struggling to contain the rampaging Boko Haram - A deadly and vicious terrorist organization that has for a decade bedevilled Nigeria's North East with its affiliation to Al-Qaida and now Islamic State, and other terrorist organizations in the Sahel. Boko Haram's activities have metamorphosed from terrorist acts to full blown insurgency capturing and holding the ground. " This book will add to the literature of understanding Counter Insurgency dimensions of both its failure and success and will surely be a veritable reference for both scholars and practitioners."
"A useful book to help understand the resilience of Boko Haram in north-east Nigeria and why the Nigerian military has struggled to contain it."
"This timely new book casts important new light on the development and resilience of Boko Haram. In charting the group's ongoing evolution, it draws intriguing new lessons about the theory and practice of counterinsurgency. A welcome and valuable addition to the literature on contemporary African security."
In this carefully crafted book on counter-insurgency operations in North East Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin countries, Akali Omeni provides an insightful study of the evolution and resilience of a complex insurgent group, Boko Haram. The book provides a strong empirical case for critiquing counter-insurgency theory by drawing on an in-depth study of the everyday tactical and operational strategies of Boko Haram, and explains why the Nigerian military is still struggling to contain an evolving complex threat to national and regional peace and security.
[The book is] without doubt essential reading, offering substantial and empirically grounded insights on this feared group to scholars, policy-makers, military planners and strategists, and practitioners.
A well-informed, valuable analysis of Boko Haram's military and ideological evolution, the environment facilitating these processes, and Nigerian security forces counterinsurgency challenges . Akali Omeni has produced a wide-ranging and insightful book that provides a detailed analysis of a resilient insurgent threat and the efforts undertaken to counter it.
Omeni combines emotional access, journalistic integrity and intellectual rigour to produce an important and necessary book about this under-rated, and little understood insurgency which remains the biggest threat to the most powerful black nation in the world. He has written it with great attention to little known details, proving invaluable, often ignored insights into the insurgency, the military and the region.
"This original and insightful book explains why the Nigerian military has struggled to contain the rise of Boko Haram - a highly resilient insurgency in West Africa, that has evolved from terrorist roots to develop regular military forces, hold territory, and ally with Islamic State. An important addition to the comparative study of counterinsurgency failure."
"This is an extensive examination of the Boko Haram insurgency, including the group's military capabilities and strategies and the nature of the Nigerian counterinsurgency response. The book charts the evolution of a seemingly non-violent sect into a deadly jihadi force that has sustained a decade-long conflict. It makes for essential reading because of its unique insight into the operational nature of the Boko Haram conflict."
"This is a deep and well researched book highlighting the challenges faced by the Nigerian military struggling to contain the rampaging Boko Haram - A deadly and vicious terrorist organization that has for a decade bedevilled Nigeria's North East with its affiliation to Al-Qaida and now Islamic State, and other terrorist organizations in the Sahel. Boko Haram's activities have metamorphosed from terrorist acts to full blown insurgency capturing and holding the ground. " This book will add to the literature of understanding Counter Insurgency dimensions of both its failure and success and will surely be a veritable reference for both scholars and practitioners."
"A useful book to help understand the resilience of Boko Haram in north-east Nigeria and why the Nigerian military has struggled to contain it."
"This timely new book casts important new light on the development and resilience of Boko Haram. In charting the group's ongoing evolution, it draws intriguing new lessons about the theory and practice of counterinsurgency. A welcome and valuable addition to the literature on contemporary African security."
In this carefully crafted book on counter-insurgency operations in North East Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin countries, Akali Omeni provides an insightful study of the evolution and resilience of a complex insurgent group, Boko Haram. The book provides a strong empirical case for critiquing counter-insurgency theory by drawing on an in-depth study of the everyday tactical and operational strategies of Boko Haram, and explains why the Nigerian military is still struggling to contain an evolving complex threat to national and regional peace and security.