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Hollow Ranks & Ghost Soldiers: Nigeria’s Corruption-Fueled Security Collapse

Archive, Defense & Security, Emerging Threats, Government & Politics, Strategic Adversariesair power deficit, alternative governments, Arman Sidhu., armed drones, bandit networks, Boko Haram, Borno State, Burkina Faso, civilian casualties, coup risk, defense budget, defense sector, drone warfare, economic collapse, external intervention, fingerprint-based verification, ghost soldiers, governance, insurgency, intelligence gap, international assistance, ISWAP, JNIM, Kebbi, Lake Chad Basin, Lakurawa, maintenance, Mali, military base overruns, military corruption, military desertion, military procurement, Multinational Joint Task Force, Niger, Nigeria, night-vision gear, organizational failure, personnel costs, President Tinubu, public trust, ransom economy, reform, Sahel, security crisis, security emergency, Sokoto, state legitimacy, Sudan, Tomahawk missile strikes, transparency, U.S. Military

Hollow Ranks & Ghost Soldiers: Nigeria’s Corruption-Fueled Security Collapse

Arman Sidhu0 Comments

Published: May 11, 2026 Nigeria’s worsening security crisis is, at its core, a story of military breakdown. The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) overran at least 15 military bases…

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Rising Security Threats in West Africa and Regional Responses

Archive, Strategic Adversariesarms smuggling, Boko Haram, climate change, desertification, development strategies, drug trafficking, Economic Community of West African States, economic development, education, governance, Gulf of Guinea, Here is a comma-separated list of keywords from the paper:West Africa, human trafficking, infrastructure, intelligence-sharing, job creation, maritime insecurity, military coups, peacekeeping, piracy, political instability, poverty, regional cooperation, resource conflict, Sahel, security threats, socio-economic marginalization, stability, Terrorism, transnational organized crime, violent extremism, youth unemployment

Rising Security Threats in West Africa and Regional Responses

Huseini Kamara1 Comment

Published: April 20, 2026 West Africa has experienced an increasing number of national security challenges over the past two decades. Violent extremism, political instability, transnational organized crime, and maritime insecurity…

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Why Ideology Matters in Irregular Warfare

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Why Ideology Matters in Irregular Warfare

David Guenni0 Comments

Published: March 17, 2026 Ideology matters, as I learned from surviving 18 years under the Chavista regime in Venezuela. The United States pretended otherwise for three decades, clinging to the…

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