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.
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.