{"id":13279,"date":"2024-01-22T16:01:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T16:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigerian-military-up-scaling-use-of-soft-power-in-counter-insurgency-operations-cds\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T16:01:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T16:01:07","slug":"nigerian-military-up-scaling-use-of-soft-power-in-counter-insurgency-operations-cds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigerian-military-up-scaling-use-of-soft-power-in-counter-insurgency-operations-cds\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Military up-scaling use of soft power in counter-insurgency operations \u2013 CDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, says the military has up-scaled the use of hard and soft power in counter-insurgency operations to contain emerging and changing nature of adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>The CDS said this while delivering a lecture titled, \u2018Non-Kinetic Operations and the Nigerian Armed Forces\u2019, at the opening of a national security course on \u2018Psychological Operations and Strategic Communication (PSYOPS)\u2019, on Monday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The course was organised by the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) with the theme, \u2018Winning Hearts and Minds for National Cohesion and Development\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Represented by Rear Admiral Daupreye Matthew, Director of Training, Defence Headquarters, the CDS stated that the use of non-kinetic efforts under Operation Safe Corridor resulted in the surrender of more than 2,000 Boko Haran members between 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n<p>He said 67 per cent of those who surrendered belonged to Abubakar Shekau faction of the insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>He added that 1,543 repentant terrorists graduated from Mallam Sidi Camp in Gombe State, while 1,935 others were released from Bulumkutu Camp in Borno, between 2016 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CDS, from July 2021 to May 4, 2022 alone, 51,828 terrorists and their family members surrendered, out of which 13,360 were fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Musa said 106,000 terrorists and their family members had so far surrendered in the North East.<\/p>\n<p>The defence chief, however, asked for an assessment and content analysis of the security policies, as well as legal and operational frameworks.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Chief of Defence Intelligence, Maj.-Gen. Emmanuel Undiandeye, said that the 5-day programme was organized to strengthen security experts\u2019 understanding of the dynamics of psychological operations and strategic communication.<\/p>\n<p>He described psychological operation and strategic communication as an integral element of modern warfare.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian Military up-scaling use of soft power in counter-insurgency operations \u2013 CDS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, says the military has up-scaled the use of hard and soft power&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5413,15,9373],"tags":[5414,866,4648,180,766],"class_list":["post-13279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christopher-musa","category-news","category-nigerian-military","tag-christopher","tag-military","tag-musa","tag-news","tag-nigerian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}