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<p>In a explosive and unprecedented move, the United States military has drawn up secret contingency plans for potential combat operations inside Nigeria.</p>
<p>This dramatic escalation comes after a direct command from President Donald Trump, who has ordered the Pentagon to prepare a military intervention, alleging that there have a systematic persecution of Christians in Nigeria.</p>
<p>According to an article published by The New York Times, and written by Helen Cooper, the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) submitted the plans to the Department of War in response to the directive by Secretary Pete Hegseth.</p><div class="O9TFgUJT" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>The publication quoted military sources as disclosing that three operational options were proposed.</p>
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<p>These options include heavy, medium, and light each allowing different levels of engagement in Nigeria.</p>
<p>The heavy option, considered the most aggressive, would involve deploying an aircraft carrier strike group to the Gulf of Guinea to launch fighter jets or long-range bombers at militant targets deep inside northern Nigeria.</p>
<p>The medium option recommends the use of drone strikes involving MQ-9 Reaper and MQ-1 Predator drones to hit militant camps, convoys, and vehicles.</p>
<p>The drones, capable of loitering for hours, would rely on US intelligence for precision strikes.</p>
<p>The light option, according to the plan, focuses on joint operations with Nigerian forces through intelligence sharing, logistics support, and coordination against Boko Haram and other insurgent groups responsible for attacks, abductions and bombings.</p>
<p>However, Pentagon officials, it was said, privately admit that limited airstrikes or drone operations would not end Nigeria’s complex insurgency without a full-scale campaign similar to Iraq or Afghanistan; describing such move as an effort amounting to &#8220;pounding a pillow.&#8221;</p>
<p>The US considered such a move too costly and politically unpopular in Washington.</p>
<p>President Trump had, during the weekend, accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of allowing what he described as the “mass slaughter of Christians,”.</p>
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