ABSTRACT
Chapter 9 focuses on conceptualizing the country’s current and future threats and the need for a more agile and adaptive grand strategic doctrine in the fight against terrorist insurgencies, as well as other potential national security threats. The grand strategic doctrine advocated in this chapter is aptly titled Strategic Fusion – made up of three mutually reinforcing and overlapping segments: preventive defense, domain dominance, and assertive reconstructionism. By delineating the changing nature of war in the twenty-first century from symmetric to asymmetric battlefields, the chapter builds upon the existing literature on the Fourth generation warfare to develop specific operational models and tactics that should undergird Nigeria’s counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations.
