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Nigeria will Sustaining anti-terrorism war say Nigeria Army

THE 21st century experienced its first global melt down in the middle of 2007 when the world stock markets fell, large financial institutions collapsed and governments in even the wealthiest nations came up with rescue packages to bail out their financial systems.

 Within a short while, the world had serious financial crisis on its hand. The military was one of the few institutions that withstood the onslaught and continued its operations in most countries of theworld. Defence and economy are deeply intertwined and the tendency to apply an economically driven approach towards defence will always occur in most climes. 
Defence is not only a question of means, it is also a question of planning, training and organising, it is a question of strategy. That strategy has been replicated in the Nigerian army which has fortified the defence of the country and now emerging as a force that will withstand another economy or global meltdown that is already in the offing.
With a period of one year, the man at the helms of affairs of the Nigerian Army has brought about the professionalism that was fading away. Frugality, simplicity and conservation is what is required by any administrator in this era when the national reserves are dwindling.
The Chief of Army Staff(COAS), Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has hit the ground running right from the onset and made the management more pronounced by carrying out forensic audit of its units, formations and all operations across the country in July this year, to ensure judicious use of funds for North East operations.