Eeben Barlow during his operations in Nigeria. These are the men that put the fear of God in Boko Haram. Eeben Barlow was also one of the first to publicly talk about a rear guard battle to stop Nigeria from becoming what it was meant to become. An African Superpower.

(2) When 200 girls were kidnapped in Chibok the western media went agog and did what they do best. Glorify terror and condemn the Nigerian army. They called Shekau the new kid in the block. Michelle Obama responded with a perfectly ineffective social-media campaign

(3) In 2014, STTEP was contracted by the Nigerian government..Their mission was to train a mobile strike force to rescue the Chibok school girls. An advanced party of South African military veterans working for STTEP landed in Nigeria by early January of 2015.

(4) When Barloe and his men arrived they went straight to work instead of social-media activism the West was engaging in. They held a selection program for the elite Nigerian military unit they were to train while the main body of STTEP began to arrive.

(5) “It is a mobile strike force with its own organic air support, intelligence, communications, logistics, and other relevant combat support elements,” Barlow had said. They were to become the dreaded 72 Mobile Strike Force, who adopted a strategy of relentless pursuit

(6)with an emphasis on operational flexibility, which was tailored toward the unit’s specific mission. Meanwhile, Boko Haram had captured Gwoza and established a base there in in the border town of Malam Fatori and Baga. By 2015, Boko Haram control over 20,000 square miles

(7) With this in mind, STTEP’s mission quickly transitioned from training a rescue unit to training a rapidly deploying mobile strike force. By late February, the strike force conducted its first highly successful operational deployment

(8) While Boko Haram employed terrorist tactics against civilians, Barlow and his men used the concept of relentless pursuit against the terrorists. The strike force was never intended to hold ground. Instead, it operated on the principle of relentless offensive action.

(9) This entailed relentless offensive action and the synchronization of every asset brought to the battlefield, and applied on multiple fronts against Boko Haram and relentless pursuit of their fighters.

(10) light infantry moving at high speed with the minimum amount of equipment needed to accomplish their task. Combat trackers follow the spore left by the enemy. Good trackers can tell the age of a track as well as indicate if the enemy is carrying heavy loads,

(11) the types of weapons he has (this is identified when locating enemy rest points), if the enemy is moving hurriedly. Once the enemy’s direction is determined, troops can leap frog forward, carried by helicopters or riding in armored vehicles