Defence Policy of Nigeria: Capability and Context: A Reader

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AuthorHouse, Jan 20, 2011 - Political Science - 688 pages

This Reader provides a structurally coherent explanation and review of the magnified role conception and organizational task expansion for the Nigerian military establishment in foreign policy. It argues essentially that one of the most problematic and intractable areas of public policy in Nigeria since the Civil War concerns the development of a professional defence establishment adequate to meet the challenges arising from the altered parameters of iour security environment.

The correction of this condition is the primary motivation of the Armed Forces modernization and augmentation program that touches upon all elements of Nigeria's military power. This Reader is at once a review and a critique of the major facets of this modernization and augmentation process of the Nigerian armed forces within the operative context of the changing dimension of threat perception and the strategic parameters that have guided Nigerian military planning since the Civil War in 1970.

 

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Contents

The Challenges of Military Statecraft in Nigeria
xix
Defence Policy Discourse
3
Formulation and Implementation of Defence Policy
40
Structure of DecisionMaking for Defence In Nigeria
60
Theories and Models of Strategic DecisionMaking
76
National Security and Defence
91
Macro Factors Defining Nigerias
102
National Security Council And InterAgency
111
Chapter 21 The Challenges of Professionalisations 302
325
The Nigerian Air Force in a Changing Security Environment
340
Nigerian AirforceChallenges and Response
363
Defence Headquarter Chapter 26 Crisis Management Procedure
378
Intelligence Gathering Chapter 27 in a Crisis Situation
395
National Crisis Management Procedure Chapter 28
409
Restraint Factor in Nigerias Chapter 29 Military Statecraft
429
Military Strategy and Doctrines Chapter 30
444

Mechanisms For Accountability Control And Defence
119
Systemic Crisis and the Chapter 11 Challenges of Military Modernization
147
Military Systems and the Nigerian Armed Forces
168
Defence Management in the Ministry of Defence
184
The Politics Of Defence Appropriation
197
Defense Spending Savings and Economic Development
210
Chapter 16 The Challenges Of Dicon
228
Military Logistics in the Information Age Chapter 17
241
Logistic Planning in J Chapter 18 oint Military Operations
258
Naval Technology Application Chapter 19 in Maritime Industry
272
Professionalisation of the Chapter 20 Nigerian Armed Forces
285
Nigerian Army Challenges and Response
316
Continental Strategy and its Application to Nigeria
459
Maritime Strategy and the Nigerian Navy
471
480 Air Strategy And The Nigerian Airforce
491
Peace Support Operations
503
The Nigerian Navy and Security Challenges
515
Military Operations Other than War Chapter 37
534
The Military in Peace Support Operation Chapter 38
548
Amphibious Operations Chapter 39
562
The Nigerian Navy and Maritime Security Chapter 40
577
Chapter 41 Future Challenges and Prospects
598
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About the author (2011)

Celestine Oyom Bassey is a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at William Penn University, Iowa, United States of America. He was a Directing Staff and Sabbatical Fellow at the National Defence College, Abuja, Nigeria. He is the author of Contemporary Strategy and African Condition (Macmillan, 2005) and Co-Editor of Conflict Resolution, Identity Crisis, and Development in Africa (Malthouse, 2007) and Governance and Border Security in Africa (Malthouse, 2010). Charles Quarter Dokubo is an Associate Professor at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos, Nigeria. His copious contribution to the debate on security relations in Africa have appeared in national and international Journals such as Civil Wars (Frank C ASS), African Journal of International Affairs and Development, and Nigerian Journal of International Affairs.

Celestine Oyom Bassey is a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at William Penn University, Iowa, United States of America. He was a Directing Staff and Sabbatical Fellow at the National Defence College, Abuja, Nigeria. He is the author of Contemporary Strategy and African Condition (Macmillan, 2005) and Co-Editor of Conflict Resolution, Identity Crisis, and Development in Africa (Malthouse, 2007) and Governance and Border Security in Africa (Malthouse, 2010). Charles Quarter Dokubo is an Associate Professor at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos, Nigeria. His copious contribution to the debate on security relations in Africa have appeared in national and international Journals such as Civil Wars (Frank C ASS), African Journal of International Affairs and Development, and Nigerian Journal of International Affairs.

Bibliographic information

TitleDefence Policy of Nigeria: Capability and Context: A Reader
AuthorsCharles Quarker Dokubo, Celestine Oyom Bassey
PublisherAuthorHouse, 2011
ISBN1456731556, 9781456731557
Length688 pages
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