BIAFRA: BEYOND THE REALM, SABOTAGE AND DEARTH OF INTELLIGENCE IN THE BIAFRA/NIGERIA DEBACLE, 1967-1970

Ezeonwuka, Innocent-Franklyn and Ani, Uchenna (2018) BIAFRA: BEYOND THE REALM, SABOTAGE AND DEARTH OF INTELLIGENCE IN THE BIAFRA/NIGERIA DEBACLE, 1967-1970. An African Journal of Arts and Humanies, 4 (4). pp. 25-41.

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Abstract

War, as the last stage of diplomacy and peace, requires a strategic sequence to be effected. The Biafran Republic once declared on May 30th, 1967, was welcomed, protected and propelled by natural pride of the groups that made up Eastern Nigeria as well as resourcefulness and jealousy-guarded patriotism, triggered by the preceding litany of organized pogrom meted against the Easterners. From start, many Eastern Nigerian soldiers and police personnel serving with the Nigerian armed forces, swiftly changed sides and fought on the Biafran side. With unequalled vigour, and common cause of able commanders stationed in different places were psyched up by the Biafran propaganda machinery to defend the newly taken freedom with iron and blood. At the initial stages of the war, Biafran successes were tremendous; however the headache on the Nigerian army over these successes was short-lived owing to sabotage, divisiveness and paucity of military tactical intelligence which when strategically synthesized could silence the impact of lethal weaponry; all these played discordant tunes on the Biafran high command. This work contends that the importance of signals, its interpretation and analysis necessary for the prosecution of modern warfare was highly undermined by the Biafran high command; it was complicated by viable selfish interests which paved way for the Biafran loss of the war. The need for historical objectivity and analysis in this study, has underscored the reliance on primary information and research, even into classified documents.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: A General Works > AC Collections. Series. Collected works
Divisions: Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Art
Depositing User: mrs chioma hannah
Date Deposited: 17 Sep 2019 13:55
Last Modified: 17 Sep 2019 14:11
URI: http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/1987

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