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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor omeni is the principal consultant at Terrorism Studies Consultancy and a visiting professor at Boston University. He has taught at the War Studies Department, King’s College London, at the University of Leicester, and at the University of St Andrews, UK, where he was Senior Lecturer. He is the author of Policing and Politics in Nigeria (2022), Insurgency and War in Nigeria (2019), Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria (2017) and Picking Sides: Race, Ethnicity and Recruitment in the Colonial Nigerian Army (forthcoming). Zusammenfassung Boko Haram is the major threat to the Nigerian state, and has emerged as a destabilizing factor across sub-Saharan Africa. This is now a major focus of global policy-making, as between 2013 and 2014 insurgency-related deaths in Nigeria exceeded those in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is the first to focus on the military nature of Boko Haram, the reasons for its success in those specific regions of the Chad basin it operates in and a detailed history of the Nigerian army’s counter-insurgency – with whom, uniquely, the author has spent research time. The book identifies and analyses the battles and skirmishes on the front line, as well as unearthing a wider explanation for Boko Haram’s military success and the causes of the instability in the region. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
