NIGERIAN MILITARY AND COUNTERERRORISM EFFECTIVENESS: A PSYCHOSOCIAL REVIEW

Abstract

The research examined characterization Nigerian military and its impact oncounterterrorism, the Nigerian military characterization entails the actual present performance contraryto their professional expectation with reference to counterterrorism, counterterrorism is a wide rangesecurity activity carried out to combat terrorism, the research made an incursion into a brief psychohistoryantecedent of the Nigerian military. Game theory served as the theoretical foundation for the research. thiswas followed by examination of responsibility expectation of the Nigerian military, counterterrorismperformance in Nigeria was examined reflecting the challenges to counterterrorism goal in Nigeria,recommendations were proffered to the identified challenges, suggestion for further studies were also made.