{"id":1880,"date":"2015-01-23T07:37:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T12:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2015-01-23T07:37:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T12:37:37","slug":"commitment-problems-and-military-effectiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/?p=1880","title":{"rendered":"Commitment problems and military effectiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times on concerns about the Nigerian military&#8217;s inability to defeat Boko Haram, which is generating support for a Buhari bid for the presidency:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cThe resources meant for the military don\u2019t go to the military; the bullets and boots don\u2019t go to the soldiers,\u201d Ms. Usman said. \u201cAnd what is happening to security, you see it in all the sectors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe support we\u2019re giving\u201d to Mr. Buhari \u201cis for ending the insurgency,\u201d she added. \u201cAnd so no more children are abducted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A retired general in the crowd of supporters, Alhassan Usman, who is not related to Ms. Usman, agreed, expressing anger that Boko Haram had gained the upper hand over Nigeria\u2019s soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue is lack of discipline; the commander has eaten his money,\u201d he said, arguing that officers take money meant for soldiers, who then see little reason to obey orders.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nArticle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/24\/world\/africa\/muhammadu-buhari-nigeria-election.html\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times on concerns about the Nigerian military&#8217;s inability to defeat Boko Haram, which is generating support for a Buhari bid for the presidency: \u201cThe resources meant for the military don\u2019t go to the military; the bullets and boots don\u2019t go to the soldiers,\u201d Ms. Usman said. \u201cAnd what is happening to security, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/?p=1880\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Commitment problems and military effectiveness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}