Report Recommends That Pentagon Rethink Its Approach to Fighting Boko Haram Militants in Nigeria

March 19, 2015

The Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) last week released a report that concluded that the U.S. will never be able to change the unsuccessful stratetgy currently being employed by the Nigerian government and military in trying to fight the Boko Haram militant group in northern Nigeria. Instead, the report recommends that the U.S. military throw all its support behind the military efforts of the Cameroons, Niger and Chad, who are fighting to prevent Boko Haram from operating inside their borders. 

These countries have proven to be far more flexible in their counterinsurgency approach to fighting Boko Haram, and do not suffer from the endemic corruption and widespread human rights problems that continue to dog the Nigerian government and security forces.

The CNA report can be accessed here.